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Show PRESIDENT TMS GF BOSKS OUTLOOK Believes Prosperity Would Come With a Jump if Man-f Man-f acturers Only Thought So. WASHINGTON. June 1. President Wilson today again expressed his conviction convic-tion that any unsatisfactory condition In business was not only general, hut was less felt in the. United States than any other part of the world. Mr. Wilson reiterated re-iterated his view at the, first conference he has had with the Washington correspondents corre-spondents since ihe, Mexican situation became be-came acute. Questions, however, on that subject and on the Niagara Falls mediation media-tion conference were barred. In reply to inquiries concerning the business situation as discussed in his statement last week to representatives of the Illinois Manufacturers' association and other similar organizations, the president presi-dent said it was ids impression anv unsatisfactory un-satisfactory condition centered largely about the railway offices, and was reflect-ed reflect-ed in the steel industry and in other industries in-dustries closely allied, which depend especially es-pecially upon railway development for prosperity. The president referred to a statement by Chairman Gary of the United States Steel corporation, that the general outlook in the steel business was good. The president believes prosperity would come with a jump if the manufacturers believed it was coming. T-Ie does not believe be-lieve tiie tariff has anything to do with the depression. Discussing the. Clavton trust hill, the president said he did not understand the act was designed to grant to labor organizations or-ganizations any privileges thev do not now enjoy. It is the purpose of the act, as he understands it, to define the rights of labor organizations more clearly and remove any doubt of their rights which has been created by various court decisions. deci-sions. It is not the understanding of the president that labor organizations are to be given any privileges denied to other orga nizationa. |