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Show Is Woodrow Wilson ill A Friend of Labor ? At a dinner in the Waldorf-Astoria on March 18, I H 1907, Dr. Woodrow Wilson spoke as follows: fljH "We speak too exclusively of the capitalistic jH class. There is another as formidable an enemy to ' il equality and freedom of opportunity as it is, and ' M that is the class formed by the labor organizations H and leaders of the country." y H Extract from a baccalaureate sermon of June H 13, 1909, by Prof. Woodrow Wilson: You know what the usual standard of the iH employe is in our day. It is to give as little as he ' ' iH may for his wages. Labor is standardized by the i H trade union, and this is tho standard to which it is H meant to conform. No one is suffered to do more i H than the average workman can do. In some trades H and handicrafts no one is suffered to do more than 1H the least skillful of his fellows can do within the S hours alloted to a day's labor, and no one can work IB out of hours at all or volunteer anything beyond j H the minimum. H "I need not point out how economically disas- IB trous such a regulation of labor is. The labor of 1H America is rapidly becoming unprofitabe Under is 1 present regulatipn by thpse who have determined H to reduce it to a minimum. Our economic supreijji- H acy may be lost, because the country grows more H and more full of unprofitabe servants." '" " jH |