Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-31
CONF PERS ISSUES /
TWO STATEMENTS
ON PROBLEMS Of
LABOR CONDITIONS
Urges Adoption of League of
Nations Covenant Without
Amendment; Says It Is Alb
SOIuteIy Necessary.
HOPES STEEL PEOPLE
WILL COME TO TERMS
PIumo Plan to Be Given Care
tuI Consideration Before
Announcement Is Made For
or Against Its Wisdom.
toy MORNING IoussA. SPECIAL LEASED wtps

Washington. Aug. 30--Samuel
Gompers president of the American
Federation of Labor, in statement
to the League to Enforce Peace. takes
issue with the opposition to the labor
articles of the peace treaty which has
a proposal before the senate foreign
relations committee to strike them out
The covenant for a league of ma
tions and the treaty of peace of which
it is a part" said Mr.. Gompers, hold
the first world agreement among the
nations to keep all that has been Sc
cured for labor and to make the stand
ards already gained universal, advanc-
ing and improving for all men. for
all women and for all children. I'm
til ratified the covenant and treaty
are not safe and the United States is
not party. Any amendment to this
treaty will send it back to all the
twenty-seven nations concerned, Ger
many included.
Should re Adopted.
This first international charter for
the rights of labor should be adopted
without delay. 1t begins among the
nations the great and sublime task of
raising the level of the conditions the
world over. Every workman in the
world wherever he may be. Is put ih
peril by every workman whose hours
are long, whose pay Is inadequate,
whose conditions of labor are dan
gerous and whose standard of life il
fow every enild at work at too eaHyl
an age makes it more difficult to
maintain the age standard for the
labor of childhood. This is Ia years
in many of our states, 1t should be
16. Children working at a lower age
make it harder to improve and keep
the present child standards. SO with
the women. Every woman toiling
twelve to fourteen hours a day rem
ders it harder for every woman work |
ing eight hours a day-it should be
six--to keep her hours secure.
The world needs to be made safe |
for labor as we'll as for democracy. |
The world cahnot be safe for democ-
racy until it is safe for labor. The |,
only sure protection for any labor any, |
where is universal Justice to all labor |
everywhere.
Endorses Covenant.
The covenant and treaty, delayed /
so long in the senate. proposes to gain
this.
This cannot come in day, in a |
year or in a decade; but it Is possible
to turn the world OF nations In this
direction, to give the command of
forward, march!' to keep the world
until this great end is won,
This cannot be done if the treaty M
or delayed
Senator Fall of New Mexico has
proposed that the labor arti-
cles of the treaty be cut out under the
pretense that they level down. They
10 not!
THE article of the treaty creating
1 conference Of labor in which all
nations are represented provides that
he article shall be interpreted in ac-
,ordance with the following principle:
In no case shall any ember be asked
Dr. required as result of the adop-
ion of any recommendation or draft
by the conference TO les
zen the protection afforded by Its ex-
sting legislation to the workers con-
The labor articles OF the
reaty were drawn by labor men Tor
abor. They will stand
Would Prevent Strike.
Mr.. Gompers announced today
hat efforts were still being made to
fleet settlement of the controversy
the steel workers and the
United States Steel corporation. Hopes
we're entertained, he SAID, that an
amicable adjustment could be reach
d. making strike unnecessary.
Mr. Gompers' statement follows:
"The executive council of the Amer
can Federation of Labor was called
nto extra session to consider num-
er of vexatious questions which are
the attention of the working
eople and the people generally of {
ur country. They desired to have l
nmediate information regarding the !
ctiyties of the delegation of the
.merican Federation of Labor at the I
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