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: