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Show I Why the Workingmen and Women of Utah r 7 ; I I -:'r ;" ;""..f . Should Vote For Wilson and Democracy I M On June 13, 1909, Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton University, Delivered the Following Remarks in a I jfi , x Baccalaureate Address to the Graduating Class Every Workingman and Woman, and Especially Union Men H M , and Their Wives, Will Swell Up With Pride to Read What the Democratic Candidate for President Things of H H ThemRead If, Then Show If to Your Friends. H H Wm " Tou know what the usual standard of the employe is In our day. It is to give as little as he may for his wages. Labor is standardized by the trade unions, and this is ' Jhe standard to which it is made to conform. No one is suffered to do more than the average workman can do; in some trades and handicrafts no one is suffered to do more than ILmm mi the least skilful of his fellows can do within the hours allotted to a day's labor, and no one may work out of hours at all or volunteer anything beyond the minimum. I need not fl JW point- out how economically disastrous such a regulation of labor is. It is so unprofitable to the employer that in some trades it will presently not be worth while to attempt any- fmM tm thing at all. He had better stop altogether than operate at an inevitable and invariable loss. The labor of America is rapidly becoming unprofitable under its present regulation fit by those who have determined to reduce it to a minimum. Our economic supremacy may be lost because the country grows more and more full of unprofitable servants' MU |