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Show BASIC DEMANDS OF LABOR FEDERATION Following Is the economic platform adopted by the American Federation of Labor : 1. The abolition of all forms of involuntary in-voluntary servitude, except as a punishment pun-ishment for crime. 2. Free schools, free textbooks and compulsory education. 3. Unrelenting protest against the Issuance and abuse of Injunction process proc-ess in labor disputes, 4. A work day of not more than eight hours in the twenty-four-hour day. 5. A strict recognition of not over eight hours per day on all federal, state or municipal work, and not less than the prevailing per diem wage rate of the class of employment In the vicinity where the work Is performed. 6. Release from employment one day in seven. 7. The abolition of the contract, system sys-tem on public work. 8. The municipal ownership of public pub-lic utilities. 9. The abolition of the sweat-shop system. 10. Sanitary Inspection of factory, workshop, mine and home. 11. Liability of employers for injury in-jury to body or ioss of life. 12. The nationalization of telegraph and telephone. 13. The passage of nntichlld labor laws in states where they do not exist and rigid defense of them where they have been enacted into law. 14. Woman suffrage co-equal with matt suffrage. 15. Suitable and plentiful playgrounds play-grounds for children in all cities. 16. The initiative and referendum and the imperative mandate and right of recall. 17. Continued ngitation for the public pub-lic bath system in all cities. ' 18. Qualification in permits to build of . all cities and towns, that there shall be bathrooms and bathroom attachments at-tachments in all houses or compartments compart-ments used for habitation. . 19. We favor a system of finance whereby money shall be Issued exclusively exclu-sively by the government, with such regulation and restrictions as will protect pro-tect it from manipulation by the banking bank-ing Interests for their own private gain. ...... ; ' Labor's Day. This day we dedicate to those Who toil with pick or pen, The bone and sinew of the land, The faithful workingmen, Without whose skilled and busy hands We could not drink or eat, Who next to God provide us with Our daily bread and meat. MINA IRVING. i . L |