Show Ll N HAP HUGH U fOR I ATTACK ATTA K N HO R lAW lAWI President Says G. G O. O P. P Candidate Candida te Is Misleading Misleading Misleading Mislead ing People in Regard to Merit of Measure Denies Denie Legislation Was WasP P Pushed shed Through Bec Because Bese Be Be- c cause us se R Railroad Men D Demanded I Its lis s Passage to Enact Enact Enact En En- Urged Urged- Congress act B Bill 11 Beca Because se He Thought It It Right Is Answer to Opponent By ROBERT ROBERTJ J J. BE BENDER DER SHADOW LAWN LONG LONGBEACH LONGBEACH LONGBEACH BEACH N. N J. J Sept 23 In In Inthe the first campaign speech since his acceptance acceptance- of the tion by th the Democrats President Wilson Wilon this afternoon declared that b b. b did n not t push the hour eight legislation legislation legislation legisla legisla- tion through congress because the railroad men demanded It it but because because be cause the hour eight-hour day Is right In hI this the first of ot a a. series of ot front porch campaign talks the president said his position on n the controversy between the roads and the me men was established through careful study o ot the question before It reached him and not as a a. result of ot pressure or threat of ot force an as charged by his poll political cat opponents His address delivered to business businessmen men 0 of Trenton who journeyed h here hereto r to visit him but heard herd also by several hundred others who gathered gathered on the lawn In front o of the the Summer WhiteHouse White Whit House was in direct reply to th the at tacks made upon the recent legislation by Republican Candidate Charles E. E Hughes REFUTES HUGHES HUGHES' A On Pa the broad porch with the president prel preel- dent were Col E E. M. M House Postmaster Postmaster Post Postmaster master General Burleson Attorney G General Gregory former Ambassador to lurke Turkey Henry 1 and other other oth oth- er leading Democrats The presidents president's speech was was as a discussion discus discus- Ion don of American business as well as of ot the hour eight legislation But Inthe in inthe inthe the main he lie launched straight out with wit witha a reply to the attack of ot Hushes which he Intimated was legalistic and misleading One point In Jn the presidents president's speech which h was taken as directly as-directly directly referring to Hughes was cheered ed He lie said there was vas one TV way a ay to test whether a n man knows what he is talking about When hen says wEb wo must not permit per mit an any organization to neglect the In Interests in- in of ot society the thing to do said bald the president Is to ask asic him ho how howare arl are ou going to prevent it The crowd crowt Ca caught the point and broke broke into a cheer LABOR NOT CO COMMODITY The only thing worth talking about II in politics or any oth other r sphere the president continued is the constructive tive idea how are you OU going to do It The president laid stress upon the word j you ou The word arbitration President Wilson said was associated with the dealings of or hostile Interests This view he declared had come com tt to him during the efforts to bring about an agreement between the railroads and their men and with Ith persons whom they loved and must support I Labor Is not a commodity he de declared declared de- de dared It Is a form torm of operation co-operation Continued on page p 3 WILSON RAPS P. P G. G u. u fl U O. O p P. P I. I PI FOR ATTACK ON I HOUR DOUR LAW LAVI I I II I Continued ed from page 1 I and If I can make a a. man believe in I me that I am em just know what I want know that I want to share the profits of or success with him I 1 can get ten times as much out nut of him as if he thought I were his ant antagonist And his labor is cheap at any price I HUMAN SIDE OF THINGS THINGS I I That is the human side of It It and the human side extends in this conception conception conception con con- that the laboring man is a partner of ot his employer If f he I Is a amer amere amere mere mer tool of his employer he is only II serviceable as the tool Ills His enthusiasm does not go into it it He lie does not plan how the work wort shall he better done He does not look upon the aspect oJ of I. I the business or enterprise as a whole and wish to operate co-operate the advantage I of his brains and his Invention to the success of it it as a whole I Human relationships my fellow w citizens are governed by the the- heart healt and if the heart is not in it nothing Is in it it MEN SHOULD CO There ought to he no such thing as the contemplation of ot hostility be between between between be- be tween men whose interests are the same and who should operate co-operate to together together together to- to gether the president continued And therefore it came to me with witha a force that it had never had before that the real problem of ot capital and labor was to bring the two sides to understand and believe in one another that the problem of the next generation generation generation genera genera- tion if It America is really to realize her energy is to be the real genuine fundamental fundamental fundamental fun fun- reconciliation between capital capital capi capi- tal and labor I did not realize until I held these just how far apart they were in that particular and indispensable part of our national life the transportation of the country countr and when 1 I did realize it I saw that there was a great task that was worth any mans man's while ahead of us to bring the minds of ot tl the e country together to see that men understand one another to see that they had some assurance that they were speaking the truth to one another I never had franker conferences conferences conferences confer confer- during my life lite than I had with the represent representatives tives of ot the two sides I FIRM FOR HOUR 8 DAY The first thing I T told both sides I before I rt requested their opinion continued continued continued con con- the president was that I stood for tor the hour eight-hour day I received no suggestion of any kind from either side as to what the basis of settlement was to be except pt that the railroad executives executives executives ex ex- did suggest that congress give them some sort of ot assurance that if it the hour eight-hour day went into operation operation operation opera opera- tion they would get increased rates for the carriage of ot their freight 1 I pointed out to them that it was impossible impossible impossible sible to tell whether they would need increased rates for the carriage of ot their freights EFFICIENCY INCREASED We believe in the hour eight day because a man does better hEttEr work within with with- in eight hours tha than n he does within within-a a amore amore more extended n Ed day and that the tilE whole theory of ot it it a theory which is sustained sustained sustained sus sus- now by abundant experience is that his efficiency is increased his spirit in his work I is improved and the whole normal and physical vigor of ot the man is added to This is no longer conjectural l. l Where It has been tried ried it has been demonstrated The judgment of ot the vote of ot every legislator in America that has voted upon it is a verdict In favor of ot the he hour eight-hour dayI day I 1 said to the railroad executives You are asking that the result of ot the hour eight-hour day be predicted and the prediction be arbitrated You are asking for an arbitration of ot a conjecture con- con jecture jecture of an opinion of ot a forecast of the tile figures urEs of experts based upon an entirely different experience and It if f you were WE're to ask me personally to arbitrate such a question I would say sayI I 1 am not competent to arbitrate WHERE RAILROADS BALKED The reasonable thing to do is to grant the hour eight day not because thE he men demand it It because they wish wisht It t but because it is right and let me get g-et authority from con congress ress to appoint appoint ap- ap point a commission of ot as impartial men menas menas as I can choose to observe the re results re- re In order that justice may In he the event of the experiment be done the he railroads in respect to the cost of the experiment That was the proposal which they rejected ejected and which congress put into law aw A proposal which I T made to them T conferred which h I urged ur-ed upon I them hem at every conference and which the he one side rejected and th the other side ide accepted I went to cOT congress tress and asked congress con to enact T I did not ask asle either side whether it suited them I learned earned before the controversy begano began so o far tar as I was concerned in It It that the whole temper of the legislative body ot of f the United States StatE's was in favor of ot the he eight hour hoar eight ir day GREAT GREAT GREAT- THINGS AHEAD When T I carried It to congress some very ery interesting things happened In the lie house of ot representatives the plan was passed was sanctioned by a Vote which included I am told about seventy evenly Republicans as against fifty fifty- tour our Republicans I am informed that the h le Republican an members of the senate held a conference in which they determined determined de- de deI I to put no obstacle In the way ot of f passage of the bill Now this lItis was wasI I because the proposal was reasonable and nd was based on right The president w was s in splendid voice and was full of energy Ho concluded by telling his hearers that ho he understood understood understood under under- stood the business of the country for forthe forthe forthe the opportunities now facing it in the world competition A vision has now come como to business business business busi busi- ness he said sald and ancl there never was wasa a time when the pulse of ot success beat so strongly In the veins of ot business America ha has 1155 not played its proportionate proportionate part in tine the trade of oC the world and in hn time to come chiefly America is about to release her energies energies energies ener ener- gies American business Is to 10 enter a anew anew anew new financial field greater than ever before The reception of the presidents president's explanation ex explanation explanation ex- ex of ot the program Tam of the eight- eight hour legislation led his advisers to tonight tonight tonight to- to night to urge repetition of this tills line of discussion in hn other speeches to be made in different parts of the coun coun- try He Ito is expected to lo follow It up UI at Baltimore Monday Monda and will doubtless doubtless doubtless doubt doubt- less carry the argument into th the West Vest when he leaves to speak at Indianapolis and Chie Chicago AO It was wag made j clear he hH has accepted the hour eight-hour day as a I. 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