Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-09-08

organized labor has occasionally done,
but | have criticised them as friend
and because | thought them harmful
to the laborers themselves and harm
full to the country. | know of no other
standard by which to Judge these things
than the interest of the whole COM
munty. The laborng man cannot bene-
fit himself by injuring the industries of
the country. Many thoughtful laboring
men are themselves critics. and very
outspoken critics. of many things which
the unions do, and | stand with them
and with all other right minded Ameri-
cans in saying what | honestly think.
If am mistaken it can easily be shown
that |. am, and Shall always be glad
to have it shown"
Quotes Alleged Remarks.
These are DR. Wilson's sentiments
since he has been receptive and
seeking candidate for the nomination
for governor This statement must be
taken with suspicion when we consider
that he does not deny thet statement
which he made in a speech before the
Peoples Forum of New Rochelle, n. Y,
on February g. 1905, and quoted in the
New York Sun of that date, in which
he said that 1.-The labor unions reward
the shiftless and incompetent at the
expense of the able and industrious"
and for which the Essex Trades Coun-
Gil on January 5, 1907, condemned his
utterance as unfair, misleading and
unworthy OF an aspirant for public
Office" and requested the representa-
tives of organized labor to oppose his
candidacy for the United States Senate
from the State Of New Jersey Neither
does he deny the statement made by
him at Princeton in his baccalaureate
sermon on June 13, 1909, as follows:
"You know What the usual standard
of the employee is in our day, 1t is to
give as little as he may for his wages.
Labor is standardized by the trade
unions, and this is the standard to
which it is made TO conform No one
Is suffered to do more than the average
workman can do. II some trades and
handicrafts no one is suffered to do
more than the least skilful of his fell
lows can do within the hours allotted
to a days labor and no one may work
out of hours at all. or volunteer any
thing beyond the minimum. l need not
point out how econ omcally disastrous
such a regulation of labor is. 1t Is so
Improbable to the employer that in
worth his while to attempt anything at
all He had better stop altogether than
operate at an Inevitable loss. The labor
of America is rapidly becoming un-
profitable under its present regulation
by those who have determined to re-
duce it to a minimum. our economic
supremacy may be lost because the
country grows more and more full of
Improbable servants"
Tells of FederatIon's Action.
reading of the statements made at
New Rochelle, n Y, on February &C.
1905. and at Princeton on June 13, 1909
give but one impression, and that is
that labor unions are nothing short of
a great evil and detrimental to in
dustrial development Because of those
statements the New Jersey State Fed
Grafton of Labor, at it's convention
held in Newark on August 18th and
10th, condemned his candidacy and re-
quested that all union men do all they
could to defeat his nomination, and, if
he was successful in getting the nomi
nation to defeat him at the polls. The
reasons for such action | explained in
a letter which was published in the
newspapers of August q and %. The
statement made by DR.. Wilson at New
Rochelle in 1905 and the statement
made in June, 1909, at Princeton, We're
made after cold, calm thought, and
contain deliberate insult to every
union wage Garner in this country.
Compare his late statement of Sep
tember with the other two. How
does he reconcile them? In this state
ment of September DR.. Wilson says:
II have criticised some of the things
organized labor has occasionally done.
but | have criticised them as friend
and because l thought them harmful
to the laborers themselves and harmful
to the country" | presume he refers
to his statement made at New Rochelle
in 1905 and at Princeton In 1909. No