Show Unionism Vs Revolution A committee appointed by the American Federation of Labor to o prepare labors labor's reconstruction program program has presented its report after many months of careful study It is a report worthy of the great r labor bor organization and p th the thousands of loyal A American rican f J for whom who t the committee l sp speaks ks of the d the solution unemployed f r The committee believes th or problem rests in the granting of higher wages to increase labors labor's r purchasing power and shorter hours to share existing employment among lamong a greater number The wage scale it is is' is declared should enable the worker and his family to live in health and comfort t. t L provide a competency for illness and old age and afford to all the 1 f IW opportunity of cultivating th the best that is within mankind It The f I f standard set is certainly not impossible but rather represents a aI Condition that all believe should be reach reached d. d k I Equal pay is asked for equal work regardless of sex No children are to be permitted in industry until 16 46 years old For 4 J tw 0 o b years beyond this age the working time is to be not more than than twenty hours a week with an equal school that period Here is a proposal for universal service and education That hat would soon multiply production and intelligent citizenship Gradual extension of cooperation in industry is proposed 4 i nothing so radical or immediate as to cause an upset of industry but buta a gradual l effort tow toward rd the end of of- giving workers a greater share in what their labors may produce S t- t The right of organization among public is insisted I upon Government ownership of public utilities high taxation of j i 1 idle l land nd to compel its use a national housing plan restriction of j t j immigration and a wide extension of our educational system are further integral parts of labors labor's program A t This is the program of the American Federation of Labor lf It Is not the program of the I I. I V. W. W. W nor the anarchists whose remedy is ruin and revolution Evidently it is not the program m of I some who are today causing Jab labor or disturbances in various parts of I r the co country But it is the program of the loyal patriotic union labor f men of the United States It should be the program for I every worker organized and unorganized If it were there isn't j the slightest doubt in the world but that the desired results or most of them hem would quickly be attained and without eso t to 10 machine guns bloodshed and bombs |