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...United States is protected by this draft convention in two ways: (1) That the recommendations which international labor conferences under the Treaty may recommend may be accepted or rejected by our government; (2) That no recommendation that would set a lower standard for the people of the United States than already exists within our borders can be at any time presented for consideration and action by the United States...
...corporate industrial influences in our country have sought, and are seeking, to infringe upon and limit the fundamental rights of the wage-earners guaranteed by the constitution of the United States. Powerful forces are seeking more and more aggressively to deny to wage-earners their right to cease work. Labor denounces these efforts as vicious and destructive of the most precious liberties of our people...
...Labor is fully conscious that the world needs things for use and that standards of life can improve only as production for use and consumation increases. Labor is anxious to work out better methods for industry and demands it be assured that increased productivity will be used for service and not alone for profits. Wage-earners aspire to be something more than numbers on the books of an industrial plant, something more than attendants of a machine, something more than cogs in an industrial system dominated by machinery owned and operated for profit alone. The workers insist upon being masters...
...special article in another column of today's CRIMSON, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, presents with clearness and force the reasons for the workingman's desire that the Versailles treaty be ratified. The ridiculous assertion of Senator Borah and the other Irreconcilables that only the "international bankers" would be benefited by a world league of nations has never been more unanswerably refuted than by Mr. Gompers's sane arguments...
...only do the labor interests "feel that our nation can not with honor and humanity maintain a policy of isolation and disinterestedness," but they urge that America accept the treaty because of the sound progressiveness of its labor provisions. If the United States ratifies the treaty, through its approval of these labor clauses--all of them forward-looking but none radical--the standard of the workers' condition throughout the whole world will be improved and stabilized...