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 The Methodist Social Creed of 1908
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THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH stands for --
  Equal rights and complete justice for all men in all stations of life.
  The principles of conciliation and arbitration in industrial dissensions.
  The protection of the worker from dangerous machinery, occupational diseases, injuries, and mortality.


  The abolition of child labor.
  Such regulation of the conditions of labor for women as shall safeguard the physical and moral health of the  community.
  The suppression of the "sweating system." [sweat shops]
  The gradual and reasonable reduction of the hours of labor to the lowest practical point, with work for all;  and for that degree of leisure for all which is the condition of the highest human life.

  A release from employment one day in seven.
  A living wage in every industry.
  The highest wage that each industry can afford, and for the most equitable division of the products of industry that can ultimately be devised.

For the recognition of the Golden Rule and the mind of Christ as the supreme law of society and the sure remedy for all social ills.

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