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 up fully the "yellow" unions (organized strikebreakers), and will not support them directly or indirectly.

4. All returning worker-soldiers will have the right, after due notification, to enter into the positions they held before the war. The participating employers' and workers' organizations will so strive, through the production of raw materials, etc., that this obligation may be entirely fulfilled.

5. Joint management and control of the employment of all labor.

6. Labor conditions for all workers will be established, according to the conditions of the various industries, by collective agreements, with employers' organizations. The negotiations will be undertaken and completed as quickly as possible.

7. In every plant with a working force of at least 50 employees there will be a workers' committee established, whose duty it will be, in cooperation with the employer, to see to it that the working conditions of the plant are kept in conformity with the collective agreements.

8. In the collective agreements provision will be made for arbitration committees, consisting of an equal number of worker and employer representatives.

9. For all industries the maximum daily working time will be eight hours. No wage reductions are permitted because of this decrease in working hours.

10. For the purpose of carrying out these agreements and the future measures to be adopted regarding demobilization of the army, the maintenance of industrial life, the assurance of an existence to the workers, and especially regarding the war-wounded, the participating employers' and workers' organizations will organize a central committee, based upon joint representation and with proper industrial branches.

11. The central committee will also decide fundamental questions, in so far as such arise out of the collective regulation of wage and working conditions. It will also arbitrate disputes which affect several industrial groups. Its decisions will be binding upon both employers and workers, unless they are contested within a week by one of the organizations involved.

12. These agreements enter into force the date of their signing and will remain as the legal regulation until a three months' notification of a desire to change has been given by either side.