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...concern in the Labor Draft Convention of the treaty and in its purposes to raise to a higher standard the conditions of life and labor among all the peoples of all countries. Its cardinal declarations and provisions are: that labor should not be regarded as a commodity; that the eight-hour day and the forty-eight-hour week are standard; that there shall be one day of rest, preferably Sunday, in each week; that child labor shall be abolished, and continuing education for young workers assured: that men and women shall receive equal pay for equal work; that industrial betterments...
...committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Cleveland has drawn up what is said to be the first definite declaration of labor relations for a community. The plan embodies the sound principles of collective bargaining, the eight-hour day, non-compulsion in regard to the open and closed shop, and the cost of living as the basis of wage scales. This plan is a most constructive effort to found an industrial cods upon which standard labor decisions may be handed down. It should spread throughout the country and as it does so it will gradually solidify into the needed code...
This hold-up of the nation, -for it can be described as nothing else-is the most unreasonable measure ever undertaken by American labor. Never before in this country have the workers in a national industry struck for less than an eight-hour day. The professed aim of the American Federation of Labor had been the adjusting basis. A five-day week means cutting down the hours of operation still further and involving a tremendous loss in production. Mr. H. N. Taylor., president of the National Coal Association, stated under oath that the workers received from five to fifteen dollars...
...firm footing. This, however, should not be interpreted as to mean the freedom to impose upon labor the unfair conditions which prevailed before the war. The laboring classes are universally demanding for themselves a reasonable return from the product of their labor and the permanent establishment of the eight-hour day in nearly all kinds of industry. It is only by meeting these demands in a spirit of sympathy and understanding that the employers may fulfill their part in making secure the foundations of a fasting industrial democracy...
When the conflicting aspects of the act are balanced, the predominant effect of the legislation is plainly to secure information by requiring an experiment to be made. In laying down an eight-hour day as the measure of a day's pay and requiring that wages be not reduced, the Act merely fixes the necessary outlines of the experiment. The commission is appointed so that the information obtained by the experiment may be intelligently presented. The fact that the operation of the Act is strictly limited to not more than eight months, is the strongest single fact which gives...