Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-10
WOMEN OUTLINE
AF'TER-WAR AIMS
Trade Union League Adopts
Program for Recon.
structiOn
HOLD MEETING TODAY
Demand New Standards for
Social and Industrial Con.
ditiOns
HOLD MEETING TODAY

/ Miss Alice Henry. Of Chicago. will
tell of the work of the Women's Trade
/ Union League at meeting of repre-
sentative women this afternoon at the
home Of Mrs. SAMUEL s. FeIs Thirty
ninth and Walnut streets.
Miss Henry IL visiting Philadelphia
and other cities in the East ms the
representative of the National Women's
Trade Union League OF America.
At the January meeting Of the local
Women's Trade Union League. held
Wednesday evening al 24s South Eighth
street. Miss Henry presented the social
and industrial reconstruction programs.
domestic and International of the ma
tional organization.
The Philadelphia branch OF the
league heartily indorsed these programs.
which outline the economic reforms that
the women demand shall be made dur
ing the readjustment after the war.
The provisions of the International
program are comprehended and elab-
GRATED in the domestic program, which
is given below.
The standards Set
The preamble develops the standards
Of life which the league believes should
be the basis for readjustment both in
this country and the world over.
We declare for such a standard OF
life" II begins. ''as shall insure to all
men and women and their children full
measure of health, education, recreation
and leisure. and we maintain that a
standard of life ought to include the
certainty of high school education and
the possibility of a university education.
with such a standard in view we now
ask for: Compulsory education up to
sixteen, and compulsory part-time edu-
cation up to eighteen; the abolition OF
child labor: the eight-hour day and the
forty-four-hour week one days rest in
seven no night work for women: equal
opportunity for men and women in trade
and technical training: equal pay for
equal work. social insurance (without
profD against unemployment. against
and accident. including indus
trial diseases and injuries. and making
provision for maternity benefits. and for
old age and invalidity pensions"
Relation to Wage-earners
The program in relation to the woman
wage-earner is as follows:
"ln order that the problems OF the
woman wage-earner receive the atten- |
sion they so urgently need, let us work
for these Immediate ends
"ro strengthen. extend and place upon |
permanent basis the women In in /
lIstry service of the United States De- /,
Dartment OF Labor. To establish in ,
every State Department of Labor a
which shall have the admin |
stering of the laws touching women ana |
children.
ITO obtain increa sed appropria tions for |
state factory departments. and also the
appointment of women inspectors in the |
Of one for every $1,000 women |
Mage earners.
TO have women workers represented !
upon all administrative boa rds
"To have the Federal and state en-
ployment agencies co-ordinated and
and all private agencies
q lbolished"
The problems of industrial readjust-
nent are treated of in the following
Daragraphs:
AS the process of changing from a
war to "A peace basis involves the de-
of workers in almost all oc-
,upations, as well as of soldiers and
ga lors. we ask that the Secretary OF
War. the Secretary of the Navy. the
Secretary Of the Interior and the Secre-
ary of Agriculture formulate plans TO
insure employment for all workers at the
highest prevailing rate OF wages for the
district. that the army he not de-
nobilzed in greater ratio than industry
'an absorb, and that workers in all in
1ustries be considered equally with SOL
diers and sailors in the plans for, de- !
Education for War Crippies
We ask further that crippled soldiers
Ind sailors be afforded Just oppor-
unity. through education. allotment OF
public land Gntelligently directed, as
Inder the law of California; 'and other
means to re-establish their individual
ives and homes and that equivalent
provision be made for all men and
women incapacitated through industry"
Other subdivisions of the program in
,lude:
Free speech-"We ask for the re-
noval OF all restrictions upon free
speech, a free press and free assem-
Dage.'
Selfgovernment in Industry-"We
ask that the principle OF self-government
n the workshop be established in all in |
iustry, both public and private. ana that
he right of the workers TO organize in
rade unions be recognized and affirmed
That this right may be real and not
merely nominal we ask for the abolition
1f the use of the injunction in labor dis
Dutes by embodying the principles OF the |
Federal Clayton law in State legisla- |
ion"
Political Standa rds We urge the
most modern methods Of representation
or the establishment and maintenance
II political democracy. Further, in (
,rder that women may enjoy full and (,
genuine citizenship. that they be ac-
'orded political legal and industrial !
quality
Social standards--"We ask for the
establishment of universal social stand /
ards: single standard of morality
he protection of motherhood and the
TO every child OF the high
PSI possible development, physical,
mental and moral
Public owuership--"We stand for the
public ownership Of all natural re-
sources and of the great mOnopolies." F
Anli.Sufiragi,ls Oppose Red Flag /
Washington. Jan, io.--Support Of meas ,
ures before Congress prohibiting the use