Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1890 — THE KAISER ON LABOR’S NEEDS [ARTICLE]

THE KAISER ON LABOR’S NEEDS

Urging the Council of State to Protect Workingmen's Interests. Berlin cable: The Emperor, in his opening address at the Council of State, said the cpuncil was to consider measures to submit to the legislative bodies, with whom must rest the final decision as to their wisdom. Referring to women, the Emperor said: “It is especially necessary to consider their position in the households of workingmen, so important for domestic life, from the point of morality and thrift. The council should endeavor to frame a scheme for the protection of workingmen from the arbitrary systems and operations of employers by which gross advantage is taken of tlieir needs and their inability to help themselves by any other means than the desperate remedy of strikes. It should also attempt to protect women and children against protracted hours of labor. I do not lose sight of the fact that all we desire cannot be “attained by State measures alone. In these labors of love the church and the school have also a wide field for fruitful action in helping to support and aid what the laws shall ordain.