Labor’s Postwar Stand Against Industrial Autocracy
A postwar call from American labor asserts labor's sacrifice helped win the war and warns against industrial autocracy. It stresses eight-hour days, universal wage gains, and fair treatment for organized and unorganized workers, while urging capital to maintain the wartime alliance and resist assaults on labor rights.
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America
Autocracy
Justice
Organized Labor
American Federation of Labor
Organized Railroad Brotherhood
Gompers Praises Department of Labor Wartime Achievements
Samuel Gompers lauds the Department of Labor for wartime reforms that improved working conditions and relations between labor and capital. He highlights the labor conference board, the labor department’s woman’s service unit, and the free employment service as key advances fostering fairness and better industrial harmony.
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Howard Taft
Frank P. Walsh
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Adjustment Department
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Employment Service
Samuel Gompers
Why America Should Have a Room
An optimistic editorial argues for a postwar industrial boom in the United States. It predicts widespread employment as war plants convert to peacetime production, notes exports to Europe, and cites needs in building, coal, steel, ships, machinery, and farming. It emphasizes job growth for men and women in industry.
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Woodrow Wilson
United States
America
France
Belgium
Europe
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