The labor world., 1915-11-06
lfthe eight-hour-day really took all children under
sixteen out of the factory should not have
toward a sixteen year age limit.
LABOR AND THE WORLDS PEACE.

LABOR AND THE WORLD'S PEACE.
The thirty-hfth annual convention of the American
Federation of Labor next Monday in
CISCO The Federation truly represents the
ent OF the United States and Canada 1t is composed
Of 1e46347 members in 10 national and international
trade unions and 489 local trade federal unions
chartered directly. 1t also has connected with it 673
central labor bodies A state federaions sss
partment councils and five departments The total
ber Of local trade unions directly indirectly af
ated with the A. F. Of L. numbers 21.887 = =:
The Federation convention ls Congress OF Labor.
perhaps the most democratic institution earth,
which the policies and program of the organized labor
movement of North America annually prepared.
There craft jealouses and prejudces are forgotten.
There the men from the mines the factories the Shops
the forests the ships, the mills the railroads
buildings meet under banner to proclaim In clarion
tones for the solidarity Of labor
This convention in particular is to be noteworthy
gathering Labor proposes to have something to SAY
when the is about the terms of peace The
American Federation of Labor already negotiated
with the representative labor organizations of Great
Britain, Germany, France Belgium Austria italy, Japan
and Russia, and plan has been perfected for calling
worlds congress OF labor at the time and place
meeting Of the representatives of the now warning
nations to restore international peace in Europe:.
The purpose OF the worlds labor congress win be to
attempt to democratize the conference and make
responsible to the peoples Of the various nations
cerned Just the wage Of each country
by insisten forced the political agents to
slider matters affecting their welfare and have forced
national recognition of the prncpe that the
of the people that constitute nation is matter OF
fundamental Importance to the nation the wage
ers Of the various nations propose that
shall be established International principle the
welfare Of human beings s Of the Importance
in international relations and intercourse whatever
provisions made for International political agencies
tho labor movements of the world will present the
demands of the people that these agents must be
responsible to them.
No doubt propositions concerned with International
industrial and commercial undertakings will be con-
sidered by the political of the
1t will devo1ve the representatives OF labor
present and demand recognition for human element
concerned in such agreements.
1t has been altogether too for problems
TO- be considered only from the purely commercial and
private profit standpoint. Consideration human
side will result only from the sefnterest the ru-
Ism OF the wage earners themselves .-
The officers of the American Federation of Labor
will ask the endorsement Of the convention for the
posed worlds labor conference should be given with
out stint When 1t will undoubtedly come
quickly and the American labor delegates should be
ready to depart tor Europe on the first boat.