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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt:...Relations), the War Industries Board, which had charge of purchases for the Government, and the Emergency Construction Board, which let contracts for the cantonments for the National Army, all had trade-union members. Maintenance of Labor Standards.--On the outbreak of war the mainte nance of existing labor standards as an essential of national efficiency was urged by a number of civic organizations. On March 23 the American Association for Labor Legislation made public a resolution by its executive committee embodying "essential minimum requirements" for the legal protection of the workers during the war. These included the maintenance of existing standards of safety, sanitation, daily hours, child labor, woman's work, wages, and workmen's compensation; the three-shift system in continuous industries; one day of rest' in seven; equal pay for equal work; time and one-half for overtime; revision of wage rates according to changes in the cost of living; compensation for occupational diseases; investigation of health insurance; and the improved enforcement of labor laws. In the interest of this movement the Association began the publication of an occasional bulletin, "Labor Laws in War Time", the first two numbers of which appeared in April and June. Similar statements were issued within a few weeks by the Federal Children's Bureau and the National Child Labor Committee in the interest of working children, and by the National Consumers' League in behalf of working women. A movement developed, however, to suspend protective legislation during the war period. But this was soon checked by the active efforts of labor organizations and civic associations. The storm center of the movement was in New York State, where a bill giving the Industrial...