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Show HAS MESSAGE FOR ; AMER1GANW0RKER CRAFTSMEN ARE URGED BY THE PRE0.DU:.T 70 CTmisD FOR , NATION'G WEAL. In Labor Day Message, President Wll- oi Expr-src3 Gratification at Labor's Attitude in Supporting Government Program. v Washington.Presldent Wilson, in a Labor Day message to American workers, work-ers, announced that he would call in the near future a conference of representatives rep-resentatives of la'bor and industry "to discuss fundamental means of bettering better-ing the whole relationship of capital and labor and putting the whole question ques-tion of wages upon another footing." The president said he was encouraged encour-aged and pleased with the results thus far of the government's efforts to bring down the cost of living, and expressed ex-pressed confidence that substantial results re-sults would be achieved iu the solving of tl.'s problem. Patience and vigilance, vig-ilance, however, he said, must be exercised, exer-cised, and the government's efforts must have the cooperation of every citizen. ' ' Presumably referring to the existing labor unrest and threats of strikes, the president appealed to every citizen to refrain from doing anything that would tend to increase the cost of living, but, instead to do all possible to promote production. Gratified at Labor's Attitude. The president expressed particular gratification at the attitude taken by labor in supporting the government's program to meet requests for additional addi-tional wnges through a lowering of , living costs, and said he hoped that the workers themselves would "move with the government Instead of against It in the solution of this great domestic domes-tic problem." |