The sun., 1910-11-01
WILSON Sa! on L!!n0!! LAnn00R! TOPICS 70! !GS
TALKS rO WORkINGMEN ~ EsY-
ONNE AND JERSEY CITY.

sxis View % an Empieyers' l.laba,isy
LAw-0Ue Thnt "Wtii Not Only
Nsrk hut Wia Mork Wtthsut Being
Hsrked''-Hsw 20 sse sharrhssders
Woodrow Wilson Ia working out some
OF the details OF thsj reform legislation
he advocates a. his Guberuasortal cam
paign progresses He early declared
himself in favor Of a genuine employers
liability law At Eiixabethport this week
hs said II seemed to him that this Law
should take the form OF accident insur-
ance. Last night In Bayonns. and again
In Jersey City. he said to folks self-com-
pressed 70 hear him: IF thls compen-
sating Of the injured workingman is a
just thing TO do II ID q just thing 70 pay
for. Lee Us all be willing to foot the
blu
The proposition met with applause and
cheers. JUST how far along shis limo Mr..
Wilson thinks the State ahould 20 he did
nos say. but he made Il very plain that In
his opinion several things should be saCri-
hced II need hs that tho injured working
man may be compensated ~ once and
compensated without fall.
The speech Mr.. Wilson delivered a.
Bayonn was = speech entirely about
labor. The candidate. who had TO shove
his way through people sashsssti to hear
him. said he " anted TO talk to the iabOring
man about his special concerns. not be-
cause he feared MISREPRESENTATION or
Thought labor in any way hostile TO him,
but because believe am going to be
Governor OF New Jervsy. and I want to
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have tn later
From noisy affection uhovn the audi
ence Of 100 settled down to listen. MIR.
Wilson said straight Oh that the only
reason We have a labor question is that
the workman can no longer personally
know his employer Our existing laws
were framed at time when he could.
In a vast corporation Who In the en-
pioyer1 Mr.. Wilson thinks the stock
holders whom the oficsrs represent.
The law Us interpreted In xccident cases
says that your superintendent Ia not your
employer. though like as not he hired you.
Yet he In the one who ordered you N
run the machine that maimesi you. Ths
result cf all this Ia that New Jersey hasn't
any real employers liability law. In
dealing with a corporation. Mr.. Wilson
said. we arc dealing with a shifting sec
tion OF society and ws must deal with the
corporation as we deal with soci-ty--by
the Law. Mr.. Wilson said that hc does
not regard corporate stock a. private
property In the old sense
The labor question 10 the question Of
how the worlds work is to 10 done.' Mr..
Wilson said. and he added that he was
for its being done as decently a. possible
safe tools. clean shops. rational hours.
the exemption OF women as much a. pos
sable from shop work for posterity's sake
these were few things he put himself
down for. Unions are necessary and
beneficial. Their purpose. said Mr.. viii
son with q laugh the crowd joined in. is
80 relieve the Individual OF his fewness
To fine "A corporation where a workman
has been hurt through negligence. Nj,
Wilson regards an a mistake. for the State
gets the money that should go TO the
wounded man. The present New Jersey
employers liability law. he aaid. he could
make neither head nor tail o. and he
doubts II any man alive can. IL seems TO
OFFSET each thing it says and pronounces
upon nothing that il does not decree both
ways.
but will work without being worked
said the candidate. which phrase the
crowd seemed tn think just hit on their
desire.
Mr. Wilson then proposed an automatic
surance plan to insure the prompeifuds
Of which We could all contribute . mite
IL necessary
The candidate. escorted in an auto 10y
q motor cycle cop. hurried few miles to
~ Johns Hail in Jersey City. He had an
awful time getsing through the 500 folks
who wanted to hear him Here Mr.. Viii
son traversed tho subst ance Of his Bayonne
labor talk bur took some time for a direct
appeal TO voters 10 get the better Of the