He demands the right to live and the right to work amidst sanitary surroundings, both in home and in workshop, surroundings that develop and do not retard his own health and wellbeing; and the right to provide for his children's wants in the matter of health and education.
Woodrow Wilson: “He demands the right to live and the right to work amidst sanitary surroundings, both in home and in workshop…”
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Wilson details the rights workers seek for healthy living and the well-being of their families.
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