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in significant contrast with those Of the

& the llDeral or by 8Cne CONSERVATIVE party
lis the securing to every member Of the
community, in good times and bad alike
! (and not only to the strong and able,
the we'll born or the Fortunately of all the
requisites Of healthy life and worthy
citizenship. This is in no sense a
class proposal Such an amount of
social protection of the individual, how
ever poor and lowly, from birth to
death, is, as the economist now knows
as indispensable to fruitful cooperation
as it is to successful combination; and
it affords the only complete safeguard
against that insidious degradation Of
/ the standard of life which is the worst
economic and social calamity to which
any community can be subjected. We
! are members one Of another. No man
liveth to himself alone. If any, even the
humblest, is made to suffer, the whole
community and every one Of US, whether
or not we recognize the fact, is thereby
injured Generation after generation
this has been the cornerstone of the
faith Of Labor. 1t will be the guiding
principle of any Labor government.
The Legislative Regulation of Em-
] ployment.
Thus it is that the Labor party today
S ands for t lie universal apple alton OF
the policy Of the national minimum,
to which las embodied in the successive
Celebrations Of the Factory, Mines, Rail
ways, Shops, Merchant Shipping, and
Truck acts, the Public Health, Housing,
and Education acts, and the Minimum
Wage act, all Of them aiming at the
enforcement of at least the prescribed
minimum Of leisure, health, education,
and subsistence) the spokesman OF.
Labor have already gained the support
Of the enlightened statesmen and econo-
rnists of the world All these laws pur-
porting to protect against extreme
degradation of the standard Of life need
considerable Improvement and extern
sion, whilst their administration leaves
much to be desired For instance, the
Workmen's Compensation act fails
shamefuIly, not merely to secure proper
provision for all the victims OF accident
! and industrial disease, but what is much
more important, does not succeed IN
preventing their continual increase.
The amendment and consolidation OF
! the Factory and Workshops acts, with
/. their extension to all employed persons
J is long overdue, and it will be the policy
of Labor greatly to strengthen the staff
! of inspectors, especially by the addition
! of more men and women of actual ex-
perience of the workshop and the mine
j The Coal Mines (Minimun Wage) act
must certainly be maintained in force
[ and suitably amended, SO as both to
ensure greater uniformity OF conditions
among the several districts, and to make
the district minimum in all cases an
! effective reality. The same policy will,
i iii the interests of the agricultural laher-
ers, dictate the perpetuation OF the
Legal Wage clauses Of the new Corn
law Just passed for term of five years,
and the prompt amendment OF any
defects that may be revealed in their
working And, in view of the tact that
many millions of Wage-earners, notably
women and the less skilled workmen In
various occupations, are unable by
combination to obtain wages adequate
!; for decent maintenance in health, the
Labor party intends to see to 1t that
5 THE Trade Boards act is suitably amended
and made to apply to all Industrial en-
pigments in which any considerable
number Of those employed obtain les:
than thirty shillings per week. hi:
r minimum of not less than thirty shilling
e per week (Which will need revision &C
e cording to the level of prices ought t
$ be the very, lowest statutory base lin
l for the least skilled adult workers, mel
$ or women, in any occupation, IN al
S parts of the%U United Kingdom.
81 The Organic for Dernobilizatio
But the coming Industrial dislocation
which will inevitably follow the discharg
!, from war service of half of all the working
population, imposes new obligation
! upon the. community The demobiliza
! ton and discharge of the eight milio1
! wage-earners now being paid from publ
: funds, either for service, with the color
! or in munition work and other wa
!, trades, will bring to the whole wage
earning class grave peril of unemploy
!, ment, reduction Of wages, and a lastin
) degradation Of the standard Of life, Whicl
: can be prevented only by deliberat
! organization. The Labor party ha
r repeatedly called upon the presen
: government to formulate its plan, an
J to make in advance all arrangement
I necessary for coping with so unparallele
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