| Show should be L good employer yer If possible ble bIe bi legislation should b be passed paged in 1 r cone tion with the interstate com corn commerce i g merce law which will render effective 1 the th efforts of ot different states to do away with the competition COID of convict contract labor In to the open labor mal mai ket So far tar as 5 practicable under the conditions of government nt work pro provision vision should be he made to render the th enforcement ment of he the law easy and certain In Ia 1 a all It industries carried earned on w i for the United States tes government women and ebB chil children dren dreD should bould be protected from excess excessive lye ive Hours bours of labor bor from night ht work and from vork rk under unsanitary condi conditions I p Governments Ms Duty Toward Labor LaborTe Tuc T Te government should provide in its contracts that all work rk should be done under fair conditions and in addi addition addition addition tion to setting a high standard stan rd should uphold it by D proper propel inspection on extend extending ing in i If necessary ary nece to the The should hould forbid forbad au al night work for women and children as well as excessive overtime For the District of otC Columbia lm a good factory tact ry law should be passed and sad as a powerful indirect aid to such auch laws provision lon be made to turn the Inhabited alleys the existence of which U Is to our om capital capita 1 city into ml tor or streets where the inhabitants car can live under condi conditions conditions favorable to health and morals American work with witla their heads as well as their hands Moreover they take a keen pride in what It hat they the are going dolg so 80 that independent Independent independent dent of the reward they wish wi to turn turnout turnout out a perfect Job jb This is I the great t tat secret at of nf n our success suc in competition with the tl th abor br of o foreign c The Tb T most mat vital vt problem with vt which this country sal and for tor that tha matter the whole civilized world worl has h to deal del ie Is I the problem which has b for one on side the th bet betterment bt of social lil conditions moral and physical in large lre cities cite and for an a another other oher side ade th effort eort to deal del with that tangle of farhi questions which we tance group KuP together when we w speak p of labor lb The Te chief factor tn n the th sue suc success I cess of each eeb man w farm farmer ta er and capitalist alike must ever eve toe be I bethe the sum sm total tot of o his qualities and abilities abIe Second Sn only to this thi comes cm the power per of acting in corn com combination c or association aton with others Very Ver great get good has 1 been and an will wl be accomplished by associations or unions Of when managed with wih forethought t and when they thy combine insistence their own rights with upon thir ow wih respect l t for the t rights right of others other The Te dl y of these the qualities in such bodies blie it h 1 a duty dUt to the nation no less le than tan to tho to th associations them themselves th themselves selves lv Finally Final there tr most mat also al in inmany Inmany inmany many cases case be b action by the tl govern government government verB ment in order Or to t safeguard the rights and Interests Inte of all al Under Tinder Uner our constitution COlt tuti there ter ie Is J much more me scope sp for such action by the th state te and an the mu municipality than tan by the tl nation naton But on points suck such as a those t touched tche OR on above the national ati government can cn set act at atThe The Rule Bule of Brotherhood When Wn all al is said s and dons done the rule Tule of o brotherhood remains as the t indis indispensable prerequisite to success in the ebl I kind of o national life for which we strive Each Ee man ian must mut work wok for him self al and d unless he so 5 works wo no n out outside side shie J b can c avail him h bet bat t each ek men man n must member hember also that he be is i indeed his hil brothers keeper kepr and that tat while no noman nom noman man m who refuses to t walk can c be b car carried c rind ried re with advantage avant to t himself hs or es 0 any anyone ay ayone anyone one else el yet that e at times U stumbles aum bles bies or halts baIt that each at t times tl needs ne to have the helping hand had outstretched to him To be b permanency effective e aid must always take the form of help helping belp helping ing a man to help himself and a we can canall cn canall all al best bs help ourselves by joining jining to together together gether pter in Is the tb work wo that te Is J of or common cimo interest to toOr all allOur 11 Our Or present immigration laws are a unsatisfactory una We Ve need ne every honest hon and efficient immigrant fitted to be become b become come an i n American citizen every ever m grant who comes come here hr to t stay who wh brings here bere a strong t body by a stout st heart hr a good c head b and an a resolute pur purpose purpose pose p to t t do his hi duty dut welt well wel in eve eve way wy WJ wyand and to bring up his b children e as law abiding and ad JI of ef the t community But there tre be bJ b a comprehensive law lw enacted e t with the t object of working a threefold improve improvement meat ment over our or present pre system em First Fr we e should auld aim to exclude lude absolutely not at only on alt ail a persons pr who wk are known kWI to tobe tob tobe be b believers in anarchistic principles or o members of anarchistic societies siete but Dt also all all aU persons who are of a low w moral tendency or of unsavory repute reputation lion tion ton This T means mes that tt we should sil re require r quire a more J thorough trU system sY t of a In io Inspection abroad ab and a more mo rigid ays S tern tem of o examination s t our or immigration necessary nee tion ports p the e former fo being bang lg Keep Out Undesirable Foreigners The Te second object of a proper immigration gration U law ought C t to lie H to tU secure Si by b 13 a careful and not merely me perfunctory ed educational e test tet some Intelligent tnt capacity to appreciate American Aeri institutions and act sanely as R American This would not k keci ep p out nfl all al anarchists for many of them belong blong to t the th intelligent nt criminal I class cl But It would do tIe what is Isas also as in point pt that i f f v tend to decrease de the sum Sr of o ignorance so intent tent in pro pee producing during the envy eT suspicion malignant mg t passion and hatred of order out of o which anarchistic hl sentiment Inevitably springs Finally all 11 persons should Sl be b ex excluded eluded clue who WM are ar below belew bw a certain cran stan standard san dard of economic fitness ft to ester enter ete our owr or industrial held as competitors with fel A American labor There should be prop proper pp er proof of personal capacity to earn rn an American living and enough money mn to insure a decent start under unde Amer Amor American B lean ican conditions This would woul stop the influx of cheap labor and the tle tH resulting competition which gives rise ris to t so s much of bitterness in American indus industrial Industrial o ius trial trl life Ufe and a it I would dry dr up the te social con conditions springs of or the pestilential th so cn diton in our greet great Nt cities clU where whee an anarchistic a anarchistic I organizations have their ther of oC growth greatest possibility Both the educational nd economic tests teats tet in II a wise immigration law should be b designed d ge to protect and an elevate the i I I general body b politic and a social l A very ver I close supervision should be b exercised exer cl over oer the te steamship companies which I mainly bring bing over the Immigrants immigrant and they should be b held to a strict accountability for tor any infraction of the law lw i |
