Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-22
4 EINSTATE ALL
LIGHTING LADS
IN THEIR JOBS
csolution Solving Reconstruction
Problems Adopted by Tri-
City Federation.
FAVOR OF EIGHT HOURS
Working Time If Necessary to
IDtain Present FOrceS-Equal
Pay for Both Sexes.
nbers of the Tri-City Federa

nbers of the Tri-City Fedora
BE- Labor in session last night
@ Industrial home adopted a
ution that will solve the prob
which win arise on the return
ri-city soldiers.
re resolution submitted by
aries J. MACEDONIAN and adopted
appended:
BE it resolved, That the Tri-City
"A 7cE Grafton of Labor does hereby
4 request the chairman of Rock Is
la-d county council Of defense and
the chairman of the Scott county
neil Of defense to act So-iOintly
rrr aeeting within the next
II ~ representative en-
EIcyers o. the tri-Cities and II rep
res antative trades unionists Of the
tri-cities for the purpose Of devils
5-- some workable plan for the re-
construction period and be it fur
TIER resolved that labor declare it
SELF for the following fundamental
principles as a basis for negotia-
lions.
'sF'irst-We declare ourselves IN
favor of a standard days labor to
be not moIS IAN eight hours.
"SecOnd-AIl returning soldiers
to be reinstated in the positions
formerly held by them except in
cases of physical incapactty.
'Third-If this provides an over
supply OF labor then those women
who have been introduced IN mems
places shall be dispensed with, pref
crence being given to women who
are seIf-suppOrt1ng.
''Fourth-H in spite Of this an
oversuppIy of labor is in evidence
then the working hours shall be re-
duced to as low as six hours before
the force is reduced.
Returning soldiers who
have become disabled in the coun-
try's service shall be provided with
some sustaining employment which
they can perform, preferably IN the
Institution where they were for
merly employed
. +SiIth-Equal pay for equal work
for both sexes shall be the govern
ing principle.
SEVENTH is suggested that
some agency be created IN each Of
the --i-cities to assist IN carrying
n out this program"
Zt President Speaks
= In presenting the foregoing res
olutiOn, Mr.. MACEDONIAN said:
Since America entered the war,
cur whole energies have been d.
Tected to and our whole mental Wis
los focused on one object, Win the
war This slogan and the meaning
it implies has excluded everything
else from the scope of human actiV-
tiles at least as far as America is
concerned and it is a very under
s-andable attitude for to divide the
public attention between two great
issues probably would prove fatal
20 both
Nevertheless, there is a feeling
expressed by large number of our
people that adequate machinery
should have been created to make
an exhaustive study OF the problems
Of reconstruction and rehabilitation
Ynd been prepared to submit a
comprehensive plan as soon as the
armistice was signed. However. the
fact remains that we are now prac-
ucally as unprepared for peace as
we were for war and it is going to
require the application of a large
amount of tact, diplomacy and wis
dom 10 avoid serious disorder and
unrest throughout our country and
this is not the time for dreamers.
fanatics or so-caIled intellectuaIs.
bur a time for solid, sensible ac-
ton and it calls for the best that is
IN Us II we are to enjoy the fruits
Tor which this war was fought. viz
r 70 bring greater freedom and more
justice to all people.
Resist Effort.
President Wilson and other all
Ie1 statesmen have declared
against a return to the status quo
ante belum' and If nations shall
not return TO the old order Of
things, labor most assuredly Will
not Any attempt to thrust US back
70 pre-war conditions will be resist
cd to the uttermost for, just as
surely as the military ridden PEG
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