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Labor In The Treaty
Clauses Proposed by Commis
sioner Headed By Gompers
For Insertion In World Peace
Pact.
The High Contracting Parties de
clare their acceptance of the follow
ing principles and engage to take all
necessary steps to secure their reali
zation in accordance with the recom
mendation to be tnade by the Inter
national Labor Conference as to their
practical application:
1. In right and in fact the labor
of a human being should not be treat
ed as merchandise or an article of
commerce.
2. Employers and workers should
be allowed the right of association for
all lawful purposes.
3. No child should be permitted
to be employed in industry or com
merce before the age of fourteen years
in order that every child may be in
sured reasonable opportunities for
mental and physical education.
Between the years of fourteen and
eighteen, young prisons of either sex
may only be employed on work which
ii not harmful to their physical de
velopment and on condition that the
continuation of their technical or gen
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No food, no shelter. Swept by machine
gun and shell fire. An inferno, day and
night. And little hope of escaping.
Five days of this! But not a daunted
soul among the four hundred and seventy
Americans in the Lost Battalion.
Commanding the little group was Major
Charles W. Whittlesey. 'To the offer of
safety
they surrendered, Whittlesey
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•4. Every workar -has a right to a
wage adequate to maintain a reason
able standard of life having regard to
the civilization of his time and coun
try.
5. Equal pay should be given to
women and to men for work of equal
value in quantity and quality.
6. A weekly rest, including Sun
day, or its equivalent for all workers.
7. Limitation of th? hours of work
in industry on the basis of eight hours
a day or forty-eight hours a wreek,
subject to an exception for countries
in which climatic cond^ions, the im
perfect development of industrial de
velopment or industrial organization
or the workers substantially differ
ent.
The International Labor Conference
will recommend a basis approximately
equivalent to the above for adoption
in such countries.
8. In all matters concerning their
status as workers and social insurance
foreign workmen lawfully admitted
to any country and their families
should be insured the same treatment
as the nationals of that country.
9. All States should institute a
system of inspection in which women
should take part, in order to insure
the enforcement of the laws and reg
ulations for the protection of the work
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VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE
Hagenbeck-Wallace
Shows.
To Exhibit At Middletown
Next Wednesday.
The elevated standard of morality of
circus men and women is a revelation
to one who is with them from day to
day, and is their close companion.
The atmosphere and enviroments
seems charged with health and hap
piness, vigor and virtue. Drunken
ness is never permitted in any form.
Immediate discharge, no matter who
the offender may be, is the penalty,
few, if any, are ever found guilty.
The very nature of the circus bus
iness forbids immoral or vicious ex
cesses. The hours are long and the
work is hard, therefore, the vigor of
the brain and body must be dissipat
ed.
The woma of the circus are not
permitted to engage in conversation
with any one not directly connected
with the show. Most of them attend
church each Sunday aad it is not an
infrequent occurence for a minister
of the gospel to be invited to lead
divine services on a Sabbath after
noon. It has always been the aim
with the management of the Hagen
beck-Wallace Circus whiclv comes to
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them to go to Hell."
And they were saved because, as Whit
tlesey says: "Having held on so long, we
thought we had better go through with it."
We, safe at home, have "held on" too
—with our support through Four Loans.
And we are "going through with it"—
through with this Fifth call to duty—just
as those boys in the Argonne. Make good.
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Middletown on next Wednesday for
two performances, to inculate a
spirit of good fellowship and en
during affection, founded upon common
respect and esteem
It demands that everyone connect
ed with the show be polite and civil,
assist patrons in trouble, maintain
a spirit of harmony, in fact, make the
people a pleasing one that they may
wish to return on another day to the
circus.
Gambling is strictly prohibited, and
a fine awaits the one caught using
profane language
The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus is a
little city with itself. There are al
most a thousand people connected
with the great organization. Ill any
city of 1,000 souls it is not hard to
find a few bad persons, it is these
that the management endeavor to dis
cover and eliminafe as soon as pos
sible. *A premium is placed on the
polite and hard working employees.
PAINTERS
Making Many Gains In
Wages and Agree
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increase of 10 cents an hour,
is now 70 cents.
Painters' union No. 607 resulted in evenly and give more time for recre
a two-years' agreement and a wage atlon and education.
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The rate
Moline, 111.—Local painters have se
cured a union-shop agreement and a
new minimum that advances rates to
75 cents an hour.
Chattanooga, Tenn.— The new wage
agreement of painters' union No 226
increases wages fiom 50 to 65 cents
an hour Sign pointers have organ
ized 100 per cent nnd have secured a
new wage agreement.
Buffalo, N. Y.—Organized painters
have secured a cne-year agreement
which raises wages 50 cents a day.
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WANT AWARD ENFORCED.
New Albany, Ind.,—Electrical work
ers employed by the United Gas and
Electric company suspended work to
enforce a wage award by the national
war labor board.
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DISCUSS FIVE-DAY WEEK.
San Francisco,—Organized painters
in this city and vicinity are voting
on a five-day week. Advocates of
the plan say that abolishment of Sat
urday labor wiU diatribute work more
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Travel Apart.
Madison, Wis.,—Those citizehs who
affect no interest in the struggles of
organized labor are taken to task by
the Capital Times.
This newspaper is not a trade union
publication, but its ed:tov fearlessly
proclaims the trae'e union theory of
collective bargaining and the advan
tages of high wages to a community
that are only possible when the work
ers unite.
Do the people of Madison recog
nize the importance of the industrial
struggle that is now going on here
to the community as a whole?" asks
this paper.
"The Capital Times believes that
the present contest is the fight of
every man and woman who really
believes in the welfare of Madison.
The case can be stated in a few
words:
'I—The real struggle here is over
the question of the recognition of
the principle of collective bargaining
2—United States department of la
bor statistics prove thit wages are
lowest where labo: is the most poorly
organized that \vages are highest
where labor is most highly organized.
"3—Where wages are low there
is more destitution, the community
vitality is lower, sickness iS more pre
valent, children g« less of nourish
ment, crime figures mount higher,
and there is less energy and life and
contentment in th.: rank and file.
'4—Where the common people have
less money to spend the business men
do a smaller amount of business, they
lose more in bad debts, a more infer
ior lot of goods are bought, the sav
ings are less.
"Are there any bigger community
problems than these for the people
of Madison to face? Are there any
bigger problems for Madison business
men to face?
'Is, then, the struggle that is go
ing on here one purely that concerns
the men who are out?
'For years Madison has been in the
low wage area of the middle west.
"There was only one reason for
this. Up to the last few years labor
waS poorly organized in Madison.
Janesville and Oshkosh are other Wis
eonsin cities that were in the same
condition as Madison.
"Just how big a community asset
is it to have the Johnsons and the
Steinles rolling in wealth while the
masses of the workers are living from
hand to mouth? Viewed from a pure
ly sordid standpoint of dollars and
cents is this a desirable situation for
our dry goods men and grocers, for
our theatre owners and shoe dealers,
for the restaurant man ana the candy
maker for the real estate man and the
banker
"Decidedly not.
"And let no one be deceived as to
the intents and purposes of Madison
employers in the present controversy.
"Clever corporation lawyer? may
write technical defenses for their
clients the employers may call in
the employes individually and prom
ise them higher wages to stay on the
job the employers may talk of agi
tators and ciass hatred and bolshe
vism as me^rs to bugaboo the men
away from industrial justice. But
back of it all stand*- the one big thing:
"Madison eij»ployers are fighting to
continue Madison as a low wage town.
"Let labor lose the present strike
and the employes will find that the
drift will be steadily back toward
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lower wages these men who are now
stabbing their fellow workers in the'
back by succumbing to the lure of
higher wages for staying on the job
now will find that when the opportune
time comes they, too, will pay the
price in lower wages for having sold
out their brothers.
"The lessons of this war have evi
dently been lost on Madison employ
ers. They are still fighting for the old
order. They still want to deal with
the individual and browbeat him into
low wages and long hours. They
fight solidarity among the workers.
They know that the prnciple of col
lective bargaining will bring indus
trial justice. They know that if they
can smash the ranks of labor they
can continue the old order and treat
labor as a commodity that they can
buy in the market at their own price.
'Where are the peop'e of Madison
going to stand in this fight—with the
employers or wtt the men?
'Do you really love Madison and
do you really want this community to
march forward
'Can we set up the old labor stand
ards here, keep wages down, allow
the rich to become ncher ar.d the poor
to become joorer and make this a
better city?
"Which do you prefer, Mr. Grocer,
Mr. Merchant, Mr Real Estate Man
and Mr. Banker?
'As good business men isn't it good
business to raise the prosperity level
Of Madison as a whole?
'This, theivisn'r only the strikers'
fight.
'It is the fight of every man ai
woman who thinks in terms of funda
mentals and not of froth as a means
of making bigger and better Madi-
son.
Burleson Cornered
In His Statements, Says
New York World.
New York—'Postmaster General
Burleson is not helping his grand
public-ownership enterprise by mak
ing statements as to his operation of
telegraphs and telephones which are
instantly challenged by men familiar
with the facts," says the New York
World.
"For example, K says that the re
cent increase in *ates was made nec
essary by higher wages and that the
added revenue will hardly cover the
extra expense: but officials of the em
ployes' organization deny that there
has been any actual increase in wages,
holding that the extraordinary out
lays now cited are mostly due to cost
ly and wasteful methods introduced
since the lines passed under the con
trol of government.
"As a further illustration, in de
fending the 20 per cent increase in
rates on these grounds. Mr. Burleson
says that it would have been una
voidable and probably greater if pri
vate management of the lines had
been continued. In reply to this we
have the statement of President
-Mackay of the Postal company in
which he guarantees restoration and
maintenance of the old rates wh$a
public control of his lines shall hrfVe
been relinquished."
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RAISE WAGES $3 A WEEK.
Boston,—Leather Workers' union
No. 42 announces that the large har
ness making firms in this city have
accepted a new wage schedule, which
raises wages from $20 to $24 a weelj
and Saturday half holiday the entire
year.
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WAGE LAW IN EFFECT.
Boston,—The minimum wage for
momen employed as cleaners by pri
vate employers in office and other
buildings, is now in effect. The reg
ulation calls for 30 cents an hour for
night work and 26 cents an hour for
day work.
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