_United we stand_:
_For equal rights and perfect justice to all men._
_For the principle of conciliation and arbitration._
_For the protection of workers from dangerous machinery, occupational
diseases, injuries and mortality._
_For the abolition of child labor._
_For such regulations of conditions of labor for women as shall
safeguard the physical and moral health of the community._
_For the suppression of “the sweating system.”_
_For a reasonable reduction of the hours of labor to the lowest
practical point with labor for all and a reasonable degree of
leisure._
_For release from employment one day in seven, and whenever at all
possible that this be the Sabbath Day._
_For the highest wage that each industry can afford and for the most
equitable division of the profits of industry that can be devised._
_For the recognition of the Golden Rule (Matt. 7:12) and the teachings
of Christ as the supreme law of society and the sure remedy of all
ills._
The ministers of the city feel much the same way about the effects of
the parliament.
Rev. A. E. Monger, pastor of the largest Methodist church in the city
and one of the promoters of the movement, says:
“Since the campaign there has been crystalized in the churches a
sentiment of responsibility for the welfare of the laboring man. The
laboring men have found that the gospel does have a message against
the great sins under which they are struggling.”
As a further evidence of the parliament’s lasting effect, Rev. John G.
Benson, another of its promoters, may be quoted:
“We are getting requests from every quarter for a repetition of the
parliament.”