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Show LABOR'S IW5 01 PROBLEMS TDLDj Factors Likely to Enter Into' Campaign Are Presented j in Detail WASHINGTON, April 12. (By the' Associated Press.) Organized labor's1 views on Industrial problems likely to ontei Into the political campaign are presented in detail in reply to a ques-' tionnairo" by tho advisory committee oil policies and platrorm of the Republican Repub-lican national committee. The reply mtido public at American Federation) of Labor hoarquarters Is signed by Samuel Gompers, Matthew Woll and' Frank Morrison as members of the! platform committee of the national non-partisan campaign of llto federa lion. Acceptance of the principles enunciated enun-ciated In tho reply was regarded by political observers hero as dctermln ing organized labor's support of can-didatea can-didatea In the November elections. TheHo principles included : Acceptance of the eight hour" day and tho six day week With Saturday half holiday. Recognition of American wage earn' crs' right to 6rganlze in accordance v,'ith their own judgment. Continued exemption of labor Unions frdm aiill-lrust laws. j Acceptance of the right of emplbyes to chooso their own representatives from within or without the plant. Recognition of the right of employes td strike. j Abandonment of the use of Ihe injunction in-junction in labor disputes. Establishment of Irco federal employment em-ployment asencies In the administration administra-tion in which labor would have a 'voice. i No Poor Houcee. i Payment of such wages as to ren Idor old age and retirement pensions Unnecessary. Equal pay for equal work. Minimum ago of 1G years for em ployment of children. Extension of tho federal workmon's compensation act to all waffo onrdera not protected by stalo compensation adts. Elimination of cbmpahy welfare nnd uplift organizations and substitution of wolfarc work as conducted by labdr organizations. Other Phases Covered. Other phases of the industrial situation situa-tion covered by Ul6 questionnaire and labor's replies include th? prlnolplea of the Kansas court of Industrial relations: rela-tions: the function of the secondary strike or boycott, right of government employes to organize and tb strike, es-tabllslinient es-tabllslinient of rederal artillery boards - jj1- and encoiirngonient of thrift among Vnge earners. "The general principles In what Is known as tho Kansas court of Industrial Indus-trial relations," tho labor romnmtoo asserted, "aro principles that aro 80 anti-democratic as to bo reprehensible reprehensi-ble In tho oxtremo and ropugnant to dvery American concept of Justice, rroedom nnd democracy. "The- secondary str6kc, or Uoycolt," tho reply states, "Iuib been resorted to and will bo resorted to only vhn tho taction Of employers left to labor no other course." Defending tho right of government workers to organize tho labor cornmll-tco cornmll-tco said the right of such Workers to strlko "would be maintained but therd should never be odcaslon to Use It." oo fivon a Chinese pookot dictionary conlalns-lhoro than iO.OOO chardoters representing words, and t a man In tendB to really mftster Chinoso ho must recognise tlitfm all 'a Stupendous Stupen-dous task." now&ver, 3,000, 4.000 or g.ooo itymbois ar all that a Chinese oC avdrngc education roqulres, and, If J One will persevere Uritll hd lifts thoN oughly oonqticrod a thousand he will bo in a. position to have coma appreoi- atlon of a noval and to master tho dlf- Iwfl flotiltiof! of a elm pi businei4 doou- Pfl mont. lut for th6 slneord aludcnt a Vufl thousand ehArdctdrrf is tho minimum- Kc9 |