Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, November 01, 1916, Page 11, Image 11
THE, BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1916. ' POLITICAL AIVKRT1SKMKNT. . POLITICAL ADVKRTIKEMENT. POUTICAL AIIVKBTIXKMKNT. POUTICAL ADVERTISEMENT. POLITICAL ADVKRT1HKMKNT. rnl.lTK AL ADVERTISEMENT. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. Wilson's Opinion of Labor Before He Entered Politics Mas Tor city, An 16, Bon. Woodrow Wilson, President Princeton University, Prlnoeton, X. 1. Dear Sir: 'In the Sew Yorx Times of June 14, whleh purpoxto to glv ex tracts of your beosaleureete address to the students of Prlnoeton ttni ' varsity, you ere quoted as follows: 'You itnow what the usual standard of the employe Is In our day. It is to glvs as little as he may for Ms wages. , Labis is standardized by the trade unions, and this Is the standard to whioh It Is. made to oonfons. . Bo one' Is suffered to do more then the average workman ean do. In some trades and handlorafts no one Is suffered to do wore than the least skilful of his fellows ean do within the hoars elloted to A day's labor, and no one may work out of hours at all or volunteer anything beyond the minimum. Now, your reported remarks strike me as being so extraordi nary so different from whot I, as a member of organised labor, hare found to be the facts that I feel impelled t6 esk you if the foregoing paregrapb is a oorreot report of what you said. If you are eorraotly (tooted, I should like to hare you give me your authority for your statement that In labor unions "no one is suffered to do more than the average workmen oan do. Also give me the names of a few trades' or handlorafts where no one. Is suffered to Co ' . more than the leaet skilful of his fellows oan do within the hours elloted to a day's labor, end no one may work out of hours at all or volunteer anything beyond the minimum." - . . As a matter of oourae, a president of a university of, the. reputed standing of Princeton would not make statements In his baooa laureate address unless he knows, or st least fully believes, that his statements are true. Therefore It ought not be a dlffloult -natter for you to oblige its with the names of thoee labor unions whose laws, or even polloies, bring about the results you speolfy. Awaiting yoijir reply with lively Interest, I an. Tours very truly, Care Evening Telegram, r" ' Hew York City. fa MNNOITON UHIVWWTV PMNOITON.V 4. Jun WW., 1905. My deer Stri- Your letter of June 16th contain a vory proper challenge. I quit agree that I aught wot to wak tho tt ' wonte I did wei about th trad union, unless I war able to citt cases in verif ication of my tateant. I, of couno, had no individual tradoa unions la mind which I oan nana by muabar, but I had in mind oovtral ttt ef building in Now York City, for eiaicpl, the trick layer working on whleh epent about one third of the working day sitting around, smoking thoir pipes and chatting, b cauee thay had laid tho number of bricks to which thoy wtra United for tho day by the union to vhich thoy belonged. I had in nir.d numerous experiences of my own in dealing with working un in Princeton, whore I once found it impossible, 'for exajstle, oa a vory cold evening to got a broken window tan -ended at th house of an Invalid friend , because th prescribed labor hour of th doy wer ovr and the glasier could not venture, without riaklng a strike, te do th work himself and eould not order any ef hi workmen to 6n H. I hd 1" "1 score of inetancee in hort, ying within y own experienc and reeting upon the taatt mony of friend in whaae veracity I have every reason te have the greatoet confident. ' . I of course could not, in th cess of mora than one or two of thee lntane, giv legal preaf of ay aeeertione, but th vidnca I hav era ntirly euffieieirt to convince me of th general truth of th atatenant mede Vary truly youre, , s Mr. Ugar R. Lavarty, Op florae of glues After He Retired From Politics "HE WAS A GREAT GOVERNOR." "Now that Governor Hughes has 'retired from pblitics and ascended to a place on the highest judicial tribunal in the world, the fact can be acknowledged without hurting anybody's political corns, that he was the greatest friend of labor laws that ever occu pied the governor's chair at Albany. Dur ing his two terms he has signed 56 labor laws, including among them the best labor laws ever enacted in this or any other state. He also urged the enactment of labor laws in his messages to the legislature, even going so far as to place the demand for a labor law in one of his messages to an extra session of the legislature. "Only 162 labor laws have been enacted in this state since its erection in 1777 in 133 years. One-third of these, exceeding in quality all of the others, have been enacted and signed during Governor Hughes' term of three years and nine months. "With such a record of approval and sug gestion of progressive legislation in the in-, terest of humanity to his credit, it is easy to believe that human rights will have a stead-. fast and sympathetic upholder in the new Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.' .. vrV ' . : v ., : .v; : : From the October, 1910, Issue of Legislative News, Published by New York State Fed-, eration of Labor. Labor's Opinion of Hughes Is Based on WHAT HE HAS DONE These Are Some of the Laws He Advocated and Signed While Governor of New York: Wainwright Commission of Inquiry. Automatic mutual agreement compensa tion law. Automatic compulsory compensation. (The first law of this kind enacted in the United States.) Limiting the hours of labor for street car men. , Limiting the hours of labor . for men in train service. Limiting the hours of labor for signalmen and railroad telegraphers. Placing young women from 19 to 21 years of age in the protected class. ELEVEN CHILD LABOR LAWS extend : ing over a period from 1907 to 1910. (These laws secured the first definite standard for the protection of children in New York.) Reconstructed the State Department of Labor. Changed the penalties to make enforce ment of labor laws easier. Requiring semi-monthly payment of wages. THIRTEEN LAWS relating to welfare, safety and sanitation in workshops. Republican National Publicity Committee 11 , s -- , as . ti , a?i