weekly day of rest shall be allowed; child labor shall be
abolished and provision shall be made for the education of youth;
men and women shall receive equal pay for equal work; equitable
treatment shall be accorded to all workers, including aliens
resident in foreign lands; and an adequate system of inspection
shall be provided in which women should take part.

While these international adjustments were taking place, the
American Federation began to anticipate the problems of the
inevitable national labor readjustment after the war. Through a
committee appointed for that purpose, it prepared an ample
programme of reconstruction in which the basic features are the
greater participation of labor in shaping its environment, both
in the factory and in the community, the development of
cooperative enterprise, public ownership or regulation of public
utilities, strict supervision of corporations, restriction of
immigration, and the development of public education. The
programme ends by declaring that "the trade union movement is
unalterably and emphatically opposed...to a large standing
army."

During the entire period of the war, both at home and abroad,
Gompers fought the pacifist and the socialist elements in the
labor movement. At the same time he was ever vigilant in pushing
forward the claims of trade unionism and was always beforehand in
constructive suggestions. His life has spanned the period of
great industrial expansion in America. He has had the
satisfaction of seeing his Federation grow under his leadership
at first into a national and then into an international force.
Gompers is an orthodox trade unionist of the British School.