Unions Promote Better Moral Life
A lengthy speech by John B. Lennon of the AFL emphasizes unions as engines of social and moral improvement. He argues wage-earners need unions to secure higher wages, shorter hours, better conditions, and gender pay equality, linking labor rights to temperance, virtue, and social progress across history and modern industry.
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Day Outpoints John Mitchell in wage and saloon debate
In Washington last week John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, countered Chancellor Day's claim that low wages and long hours drive unemployment and saloon patronage. Mitchell cited statistics linking wage increases and shorter days to fewer saloons and improved morals, arguing wealth producers are not served by Day's view.
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John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
American Federation of Labor
Washington
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Chancellor Day
Telegraphers Win Wage Increase After Shutdown Dispute
In Chicago a nine member union committee demanded higher wages from Western Union. The firm dismissed them, prompting a union threat of a nationwide strike. President Crowry ordered a 10 percent raise, and after further talks the company rehired the discharged workers wearing union buttons. The Labor Argus.
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Western Union Telegraph Com.pany
Chicago
Western Union Telegraph Office
New York
Crowry
Protests Against Convict Labor Across States
Organized labor in Minnesota fights a planned prison harvester plant under convict labor. A Gompers letter to Governor Johnson urges veto, arguing convict labor harms free workers, inflates unemployment, and corrupts public morals while benefiting state contractors and the profits of others.
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Minnesota
Gompers
John A. Johnson
Bryan on the Eight Hour Day
The speaker argues for the eight hour day as a right for workers. He emphasizes workers as human beings with families, rights, and duties to society, noting their role in wealth creation and national defense. The laboring man deserves time for family and civic life.
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A Grave Crime Senator Beveridge Speech
A quotation urges the republic to nurture better manhood and womanhood under the flag. It condemns industrial practices harming American children as crimes against humanity and liberty, warning that such offenses threaten free institutions and moral order.
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