Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-09
WOMEN OUTLINE
AFTER-WAR AIMS
Trade Union League Adopts
Program for Recon-
structiOn
WIDE REFORMS ASKED
Demand New Standards for
Social and Industrial Con.
ditiOns

Programs for social and industrial
reconstruction, both national and in
ternational. following the war; were In
dorsed and adopted by the Women's
Trade Union League OF this city at its
monthly meeting last evening, at 24s
Sonth Eighth street.
The programs were presented by Miss
Alice Henry, of Chicago, who is visit
ing various cities OF the east in the in
terest cf the National women's Trade
Union League of America. of which the
local organization is a branch.
The national organization formulated
the programs which were indorsed by
the local organization. Below is given
the national program. which Is an
elaboration of the International program.
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 standard of
life." IL 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 parttime 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
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sickness 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:
I'm order that the problems of the
woman wage-earner receive the atten-
tion they so urgently need, let us work
for these immediate ends:
"ro strengthen, extend and place upon
a permanent basis the women in in
dustry service of the United States De-
partment of Labor. To establish in
every State Department of Labor a
women's. which shall have the admin
isterng of the laws touching women and
children.
ITO obtain increased appropriations for
State factory departments. and also the
appointment of women inspectors In the
proportion Of one for every $4,000 women
wage earners.
''ro have women workers represented
upon all administrative boards.
ITO have the Federal and State en-
ployment agencies co-ordinated and
standardized. and all private agencies
abolished.
The problems of industrial readjust-
ment are treated of IN the following
paragraphs:
"As the process of changing from a
war to "A peace basis involves the de-
mobilization of workers in almost all oc-
equations. as well as Of soldiers and
sailors we ask that the Secretary of
War, the Secretary Of the Navy. the
Secretary of the Interior and the Secre-
tary of Agriculture formulate plans to
insure employment for all workers ut the
highest prevailing rate or wages for the
district that the army be not de-
mobilized in greater ratio than industry
can absorb, and that workers in all in
dustries be considered equally with SOL
ders and sailors in the plans for de-
mobilization.
Education for War Cripples
I'VE ask further that crippled soldiers
and sailors be afforded just oppor-
tunity, through education, allotment of
public land Gntellgently directed, as
under the law of California; and other
means to re-establish their individual
lives and homes and that equivalent
provision be made for all men and
women incapacitated through industry"
Other subdivisions of the program in
cludc:
Free speech-"We ask for the re-
moval of all restrictions upon free
speech, free press and free assem-
blage"
Self-government in Industry--"We
ask that the principle of self-government
in the workshop be established in all in
dustry, both public and private, and that
the right of the workers to organize in
trade unions be recognized and affirmed
That this right may be real and not
merely nominal we ask for the abolition
of the use of the injunction in labor dis
putes by embodying the principles Of the
Federal Clayton law in State legsla-
ton"
Political Standards-"We urge the
most modern methods of representation
for the establishment and maintenance
OF political democracy. Further, in
order that women may enjoy a full and
genuine citizenship. that they be ac'
corded political, legal and industrial
equality"