Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-22
WILSON OPPOSED
BY LABOR UNIONS
Workingmen's Organ Comes
Out Vigorously Against the
Candidacy of Governor.

TRENTON, May 22.-The Trade Union
Advocate, the State organ of labor in
New Jersey. in its leading editorial.
strongly opposes the candidacy of Wood
row Wilson and advocates in the Fourth
Congressional district the election of
James j, Quigley, formerly president OF
the State Brlcklayers' and Masons'
Union, as a Democratic delegate opposed
TO Wilson. The Advocate says:
Labor men are watching with keen
interest the outcome Of the Democratic
contest for Presidential delegates in this
district. not only from the fact that
Governor Wilson has been condemned by
the New Jersey State Federation of
Labor, but also because James J. Quig-
ley. one OF the b%est-known labor men in
Trenton. has taken up the fight against
Governor Wilson in behalf of organized
labor and is a candidate for uninstructed
delegate to the Democratic convention at
Baltimore.
Oppose wilson's Attitude.
"The attention of labor mon in all
parts of the country has been directed 10
the primary fight here because 1t was in
this county lat Princeton University that
Governor Wilson assailed the trades
unions in his baecalaureate sermon to
the students on June 10, 1909. Mr.. viii
sons bitter attack on organized labor on
that occasion Will undoubtedly cost him
the Democratic Presidential nomination.
because Mt the open primaries thus far
held the labor vote lined up soddly
against him in the big cities. as is shown
-. H.. fat that Ghar,n I1orL[ QWa mnpH
him in Chicago. Milwaukee, Boston, Bal
tlmore, Springfield. Omaha, San Fran
cisco and other places where organized
labor is a big factor. In Chicago CLARK
beat Wilson by a majority of 5000. Or
gained labor throughout the country is
now looking to Trenton labor men to
effectually resent Governor wilson's in
suit to union wage-earners in the very
county in which the insult was first
launched.
I'm his b~accalaureate sermon at
Princeton University DIR. Wilson said:
Criticism by Wilson.
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 trades unions and
fD1S Is JDt SiHbudIu " WhAth ~ 40 hhoNt
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 the least skilful
of his fellows can do within the hours
allotted to a days labor, and no one may
work out of hours at all or volunteer
anything beyond the minimum. | need
not point out nov economically disastrous
such a regulation of labor Is. 1t Is so
Improbable to the employer that In some
trades 1t will presently not be worth his
while to attempt anything at all. He
had better stop altogether than to operate
at an inevitable and invariable loss. The
labor of America Is rapidly becoming I'M
profitable under the present regulation
by those who have determined to reduce
premacy may be lost because the country
grows more and more full of improbable
servants
at is particularly fitting that Mr..
| Quigley should espouse the cause of
union labor brethren of Trenton by
opposing the candidacy of DR.. Wilson.
For three terms Mr.. Quigley was State
president of the New Jersey State
branch Of the Bricklayers and Masons
International Union, an organization
which is AFFILIATED with forty-one unions,
having a total membership of 5000, and
it was through Mr.. Quigley's efforts
that the national convention of that or
gan.zation was brought to rento some
years ago. For nine terms Mr., Quigley
was president of Trenton Local No. 0.
AT the convention of the New Jersey
Federation of Labor. held in Newark in
August, 1910, resolutions condemning DIR.
Wilson were adopted by a big major
ity vote. These resolutions of con,
demnation have never been rescinded
and DR.. Wilson today stands condemned
by the supreme labor body of the
State"