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Show RESOLUTIONS OF BAPTISTS Northern Convention Passes on the Subjects Relating to the Home and Family, Social Service and Labor Adopt Declaration of Principles Detroit Mich. May 27. The atti tude of the Northern Baptist church In matters relating to labor the homo and family and social service was set forth In ttK- report of the social service ser-vice commission rend last night by the Rev Samuel Z Batten before the convention, now in session here. The commission presented a declaration of principles which are to be adopted by the church as Its platform in dealing deal-ing with the subjects The principal planks are. Right of both laborer and employers employ-ers to organize Is recognized. Ade quate means of conciliation and arbitration arbi-tration urged Release from employment one day In seven demanded A living wage as a minimum in every ev-ery industry and for the highest wage that each industr can afford For gradual and reasonable reduction reduc-tion in hours of labor to the lowest practical point Conservation of health and protection protec-tion of the worker from dangerous machinery, occupational disease and mortalit y Suitable provision for workers in old age and for those Incapacitated h injury- The right of all men to the oppo'-tunit oppo'-tunit for self maintenance and for protection of the worker from the hardships of enforced employment For a new emphasis on the application applica-tion ol Christian principles to the acquisition ac-quisition and use of propert and for the most equitable division of the product of industry that can be de- isd For the protection of the family b the single standard of purity . "ml form divorce law. proper regulation of marriage and proper housing. For the fullest possible dcelop-ment dcelop-ment of every child, especially b the provision of proper education and rearation. For the abolition of child labor For such regulations of the conditions condi-tions of toll for women as shall safe guard the physical and moral health of the community. For the protection of the Individual and BOCiety from ihe social economic and moral waste of the liquor traffic. traf-fic. The adoption by each church affill nted with the convention of a constructive con-structive program of social Bervlce and to seek to enlist IIh members, directly in some forms of practical social service. Theological seminaries to have courses in social service that shall train pastors and workers for church leadership In community betterment Increase In social service Commission Commis-sion from 15 to IS members, thc three new members to be women and that one woman member of the commission com-mission be elected each year oo |