| Article Title |
Wilson's Labor Record Gives His Managers Much Concern |
| Type |
article |
| Date |
1912-08-15 |
| Paper |
Salt Lake Herald-Republican |
| Language |
eng |
| City |
Salt Lake City |
| County |
Salt Lake |
| Page |
14 |
| OCR Text |
I Wilsons Wilson's Labor Record Gives I His Managers Much Concern I HE professors professors professor's enmity to labor Jabor has hns come back r. r THE to plague him Ilis attitude of years in anI antagonistic an- an I e opposition to labor unions and theire their members his vindictive and virulent attacks upon fj them in order to ingratiate himself with their employers em cm- t r arc are damaging him bim so greatly in ill strong industrial in industrial ini in- in i centers that a special bureau is being organized organized or or- b by the professors professor's campaign committee to neutralize and anal eventually dissipate their effect I. I The Thc professor bitterly attacked the cause of the workingman for years ears but one of his most significant significant significant cant utterances was on J June Junc unc 13 18 1909 when he was addressing a Princeton graduating class surrounded by the wealthy members of his board of trustees and the thc still more wealthy patrons and alumni of Princeton all of them employers ers of labor On that i date he sd said You know ImO what tho the usual standard of or theto tho the thor r to o is in our am day Jt It Is to give Rho ho ns ItS little as ashe lio ho nary may for fOI his w wages ge tabor labor is standardized by bYtho the trade unions union and amI this Is Uio tiro st standard i to which it Jt is made mado to conform Xo No one is 19 Isi Fr i suffered to do more moro than the tho average Il c ct t- t tt workman can CUI do In soma somo trades aril and hani han ban i II no ono is suffered to do o moro then tho the least sl skillful of or his fellows can do within tho the hours allotted to m ar 11 d dayS labor and no ono ana may work off oft hours atI at atall I k nil all or volunteer nn anything tiling beyond a minimum I Tho Tiro labor of or America is rapidly becoming unprofitable unI un urt- I J profitable under tinder Its present jux ent regulation b by those who have determined to reduce It to a u minimum t i The professor should not be too harshly ly judged fudged for his bis attitude of opposition to labor unions unions As 1 the organizations of workingmen arc are their strongest weapons for securing decent working hours decent r wages and decent working decent working conditions the professor l is naturally against them because his sympathy is isi l i with the tile class with which he has bas always as associated and to whom h he has been accustomed to look for forI I those favors w which the millionaire may give his impecunious impecunious im- im but hut otherwise other highly reputable and and cout congenial con con- t genial friend He has dined lined at their tables as an f honored lonore guest he has been the recipient of thel the tile l luxuries of opulent living and has ha's listened by the hour a good cigar between his lips to the t complaints 1 t of his llis host about the thc unreasonable demands of or orI I 1 III tic Ins It is is ii bt but bat t to bo ho expected that the tho professor should share the tho opinions of his constant associates should identify p himself with the class to which he lie logically jl belonged and should share their point of view view Well-fed Well engaged in a respectable and a agreeable i occupation well clothed and brought into intimate t F contact with the predatory rich lich whose sons were r I 1 in the professors professor's class room a cautious regard for forthe r the financial interests o of the university whose head headlie lie he was required ed that he s should show himself to to be beI be I iu itt harmony with those who supported the university A college president who vho sympathized with tho the causeE cause E o of the la laboring oring man who ho upheld labor unions as 1 i proper proper agencies would would not long g have held the posit position t tion of guide philosopher and friend to the sons of f f the capitalists of the nation tho the scions scions of the employing employing em em- class ss who may be expected at any time to step tep into the shoes of their fathers and continue the warfare they are making against unreasonable ble LIe It is a as natural that the professor can see sec no good goodin in labor unions or their methods as it is that the thief who feels tho trio halter draw should have no noi i I good g opinion of the law The unions unions were regarded by y the professors professor's friends as antagonistic to their I interests naturally the professor took the same view Labor organizations were considered by the professors professor's associates to be making unprofitable r servants of their of course courso the professor as their friend and the beneficiary of their careless bounty looked upon upon workingmen men as unprofitable servants Eight hour hour workdays s at high wa wages es i with time and a half for time over-time were regarded l by those with whom tho the professor dined as a direct t c result of the machinations machination of those who ho io ha have e determined de de- de l l to reduce the labor of America to the minimum the professor took the same view of f course and he impressed it upon audiences for man many Y 1 years Is it any wonder that the workingmen of the country country coun oun- try are taking such an interest in Professor Wilo Wilsons Wilsons Wilson's Wil Wil- sons son's o l' l labor record that a special bureau is being l organized by his managers to counteract it 7 2 J F. F 1 ft t ft I and SanJuan San SanJuan Armageddon AR ARMAGEDDON Juan Junn Hill HilI seem thor thor- t an and d S San SanJuan a dissimilar When c the conquest of f the latter by Juan Hill Hll American troops trooP s during o the Dissimilar Spanish unpleasantness gave gavet I t the bull moose a reputation for r E dash and nd daring the colored cavalry played its part in the festivities of the tho day I acquitting itself so creditably that even en Theodore himself was moved to compliment it at the tho close of the engagement But in the dash to Armageddon I there is to be no colored cavalry ca unless it hails hauls from north of Masons Mason's o ti's an and d Dixon's Dixons line linc where the colored colored col col- r. r ored man and brother is permitted to vote and get r his Jis vote counted But in the south where II the the r heirs to Jacksonian Democracy Democracy whose r support an and d ot votes s the bull moose is so anxious to obtain are arc in l control no colored man need apply for Roosevelt recognition fo for he will not get bet it Ho has no no vote despite tho the Fifteenth amendment to the t tion lion therefore he is n no o use to Theodore who wants votes and votes only 4 1 a i c opinion of the quest ques ques- t i Ethics of ONES ONE'S attitude of the i f Prosecutor Georgia Georgi man who bullied 1 his wife until she shot him 1 Liberate then prosecuted her bel with nl all Criminal the virulence of a lifelong enemy enemy enemy en en- emy cannot affect public dis dis- disgust t gust over the confession of the tho prosecutIng attorney who c conducted the trail of Mrs a Grace Cr Although Pe nally possessed of evi evidence c Bence W t that at would have havo Convicted con havo her had bad he t taken the bc wI witness ness st stand nd this V attorney permitted her to ba be acquitted ac ae- ac- ac quitted with nth th the 9 explanation that professional ethics Tl would A not not permIt him to testify The TIl rules les of the s 1 game which are arc responsible for homicidal crimes lit in ill America to a number number each year four times t that tha of any other nation nahon were ro more important in the of the thc prosecutor than the he ey eyes law lawor s vindication of tha the law or 01 the conviction an and d punishment of the guilty I |
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https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6q53vf2/10061153 |
