Connecticut western news., 1919-02-27

worker should remain In any occupa. { ton that is harmful to health or nor. als. Women should disappear as quick ly aS possible from such tasks as con ducting and guarding street cars, clean ing locomotives and great number of other activities for which conditions of | life and their physique render them unfit. Another general principle is that the proportion of women In industry ought to be kept within the smallest . practical limits. If we have an efii- cient national employment service, If 1 goodly number Of the returned soldiers and sailors are placed on the land and if wages and the demand for goods ard kept up to the level which is easily at| tainahle all female workers who ard displaced from tasks that they hava been performing only since the beglnI ming of the war will be able to find suitable employments In other parts oI the industrial field or in those domestiI ! occupations which sorely need theiI presence. Those women who are en gagged at the same tasks as men shoulS receive equal pay for equal amount and qualities of work.
 National War Labor Board. i "One of the most beneficial goverrs mental organizations of the war Is th ' National War Labor Board. Upon in basis of few fundamental principleN unanimously adopted by the represent atives of labor, capital and the publi 1t has prevented innumerable strike and raised wages to decent levels many different industries throughout the country. Its main guiding prime pies have been family living wag i for all male adult laborers, recognitio of the right of labor 70 organize and deal with employers through its chose representatives and no coercion of noi union laborers by members of the ul lon. The War Labor Board ought i be continued in existence by Congre and endowed with all the power for q fective action that 1t can possess undd the Federal Constitution. The prind ples, methods, machinery and resul of this institution constitute a defini and far-reaching gain for social ju tice No part of this advantage shou be lost or given up in time of peace.
 Housing for Working Glasses.
 Housing projects for war worke which have been completed or almd completed by the Government of [ ! United States have cost some foT million dollars and are found In elev cities. While the Federal Governme cannot continue this work in time peace, the example and precedent il | 1t has set and the experience a knowledge that 1t has developed shol not be forthwith neglected and Id The great cities in which congesti and other forms of bad housing disgracefully apparent ought to ta up and continue the work at least such an extent as will remove worst features of a special condit | that is a menace at once to industI efficiency, civic health, good nor and religion. H Social Insurance.
 Until the level of legal minim wages is reached the worker stands need of the device of insurance. | State should make comprehensive vision for insurance against illness. validity, unemployment and old ] So far as possible the insurance f should be raised by levy on indus as is now done in the case of aecid compensation. The industry in WI man is employed should provide with all that Is necessary to meet the needs of his entire life. Theref any contribution to the insurance from the general revenues of the S should be only slight and temper For the same reason no contribu should be eXacted from any wo who is not getting higher wage
 is required to meet the present n of himself and family. Those who below that level can make such a
 tribution only at the expense of
 present welfare. Finally, the adm tration of the insurance laws shou such as to interfere as little as pos with the individual freedom of
 worker and his family.
 A New Spirit a Vital Need. | society, Snlu rope Leo Alllf
 be healed in no other way than
 return to Christian life and Chri
 institutions The truth of these VI is more widely perceived to-day
 when they were written, more
 twenty-seven years ago. Chang
 our economic and political sys
 will have only partial and feeble
 ciency if they be not reinforced D
 Christian view of work and Vi | Neither the moderate reforms
 cated in this paper nor any othei
 gram of betternfent or reconstr
 will prove reasonably effective
 out n reform in the spirit of both
 and capital. The laborer must co
 realize that he owes his employe
 society an honest days work in l for a fair wage and that cond
 cannot be substantially improved
 he roots out the desire 10 get n
 mum of return for q minimum of
 ice. The capitalist must llkewise