Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-10-21

No tenement-house work.
Proper regulation of temperature in
workrooms.
Adequate light, ventilation, and
sanitary conditions.
Protection against fire, industrial,
fatigue, disease, and accident.
Adequate time for rest and meals
outside the workroom.
Equal pay for equal work and an
advance in wages to meet the living
conditions. Il
Mothers of young children not to
be employed in factory work, but kept
in their homes when possible.
Cooperation between employer and
employee, under the term collective
bargaining"
Before the adoption of these stand
ards the eight-hour day for women
had been decreed in the District u
Columbia for employees of con tractors
handling government work and for
railroad men throughout the nation.
These are all simple, homely mat
tiers in the last analysis, but tie DEM
ocratic party believes that govern
ments exist for the sake of tine gov
erned, and that it is their province
to make life richer, to bring opportu-
nifty closer to the many, to lift the
yoke from the shoulders of those who
labor and are heavy laden, and to nlace
its burdens upon those best able to
bear them. For this reason the Dem
ocratic party made the Income Tax a
platform measure and finally succeed
ed in submitting an amendment to the
people of the country in order that
this most just system of taxation
might be adopted.
In contradistinction to this program
we have the resolution adopted by the
Republican caucus of New York AS
sembly members which declared the
Welfare bills, including a minimum
wage law, health Insurance, an eight
hour day, and several other measures
"a program which we believe to be in
violation of the fundamental princi-
pies of Republicanism." In view OF
this statement it would be interesting
to know what the fundamental prin-
ciples Of the Republican party are. II
might also be news to many members
of that party.
It is not possible to draw any line
Of demarkation among the war meas
ures showing which appealed to wo-
men and which did not. The creation
of the Shipping Board and its subse,
quent operations may not have beer
very thoroughly understood by either
the men or women of this country, but
the fathers and mothers knew its
province was to provide means to gel
their sons abroad safely and provide
them with adequate supplies of al
kinds, and in mountain towns. thou
sands of miles from the seaboard
they read with glistening eyes the
wonderful new story Of the launching
of the ship.
Again, women are not supposed to
be specially interested or gifted in the
matter of finance, but this world.
crisis through which we have passed
has convinced all but the mos- stupic
of men that many of our long-cherish'
ed ideas about Woman have founda'
ton no more substantial than the base
less fabric of dream. What the wo.
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war is story by itself, a story which
has been and will be written many
times over. The woman who sole
bonds found new avocation for her
sex, and hundreds of thousands of wo
men bond-buyers have a new idea Of
partnership with and an investment ii
the government.
When war first broke out in Europe
and shippers found insurance rate:
soaring, the government undertook tx
meet the emergency. It wrote the in
surance, paid the losses, and made
money. When we went into the wal
it adopted a system of insurance thai
was based on the desire to deal moi
only justly but generously with it,
sons. Considerably over a billion dol
lars has been paid to those taking out
this insurance.
The Selective Draft revealed many
things to the nation. We found thai
we had an astonishing percentage Of
native born who were illiterate. W.
found men who had grown to man
hood in this country still speaking
only a foreign tongue. We found
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