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Show WILSON TRUCKLING TO LABOR A comparison bctwocn tho records of President Wilson nnd Governor C. E. Hughes Is not to tho credit of Mr. Wllscu in tho eyes of organized labor. la-bor. It Is Immensely to tho credit of (lovernor Hughes. President Wilson Iibb never rhown rollcttudo for tho laboring men's welfare wel-fare his efforts to settle tho railroad cmbroglio was tho first tlmo that tho President manifested tho slightest In- terost In labors affairs and' that Interest In-terest was not duo to any lovo for lobcr but to tho spur of public opinion opin-ion which demanded tlioro should bo no strike. Tho dispute had been browing many months but tho President waited until un-til n little more than sixty days before be-fore tho National election to summon sum-mon tho brotherhood chiefs and the railroad heads to Washington. Perhaps there wns n, psychological' renson for that, if not tho reason of political advantage Labor unions nro justified in looking look-ing nskanco at tho President in view of his spoken nnd written utterances regarding labor. In Ir. Wilson's History of tho American Am-erican People, ho says: "Tho Chi-noso Chi-noso wero moro to bo desired as workmen, if not as citizens, than most of tho coarse crow that 'camo crowding In every year nt tho Eastern East-ern ports." Tho "coarso crow" tho President described as "crowding in" included tho millions of forolgn TJorn persons of overy nationality who nro now loyal citizens of the United States. In tho samo book tho President said: "And now thero camo multitudes of men of the lowest class from tho south of Italy nnd men of meaner sort out of Hungary and Poland, men out of the ranks where thero was neither skill nor energy nor nny Initiative Ini-tiative of quick Intelligence. " What do American citizens of German, Ger-man, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, or any European ancestry think of that? On June 3, 1909, In an address to tho graduating class of Princeton University, Dr. Wilson expressed his rcmnrkablo views on labor in tho following fol-lowing words1 "You know what tho usual standard of tho' employe is In our day: It is to give as littlo as he may for his wages." At a dinner In tho Waldorf Hotel in Nov; York, March 18, 1907, Dr. Wood-row Wood-row Wilson spoko as Tdllows: "Wo speak too exclusively of tho capitalistic capital-istic class. Thero Is nnother as formidable for-midable an enemy to equality and freedom of opportunity as -it Is, and that Is tho class formed by tho labor organizations and leaders of tho country." coun-try." Contrast tho labor record of President Presi-dent Wilson with tho labor record of Governor Hughes. Governor Hughes has never written writ-ten or spoken a single word Inimical Inimic-al to labor. On tho contrary ho was tho greatest, friend of labor that over occuplod tho governor's chair at Albany. Al-bany. Legislative records at Albany Hhnw that during his two terras ns governor of New York he signed KG labor laws. , |
