For a worthy and just return to every man according to his contribution to the common welfare, and relationships. For a social life shall live on the fruits of another labor and no man shall be denied the fruits of his own labor. The laborer is worthy of his hire. Worthiness of return for honest work is measured today first of all by the standard of a living wage by which is meant a wage adequate to maintain the worker and his family in health and honor, and to enable him to dispense with the subsidiary earnings of his children up to the age of sixteen.

For the protection from excess. For such regulation of the conditions of occupation of women as shall secure an adequate living wage and at the same time safeguard their physical and moral health and that of the community and of future generations. For the safeguarding of working people from harmful conditions of labor, dangerous machinery and occupational disease, and for the education of the workers in avoiding hazards in connection with their employment. For the assumption by industry of the burdens entailed by industrial accidents, disease and death, and for the training of injured workers for continued production and self-support. For the release of every worker for rest one day in seven, which, wherever possible, should be the Cord's day. 