United labor bulletin., 1912-09-26
ADvERTISEMEN Mt.
WILSON ISLANDERS LABOR.
(From Labor Worldly

(From Labor Worldly
From the standpoint of labor the more
that DR.. Wilson, who is the Democratic
candidate for the presidency of the
United States, talks the more tiresome
| and wishy-washy does he become. He
| persists in avoiding the vital questions
| that labor wants him to answer. He has
i never had an equal in dealing out plati-
| tudes that mean nothing definite and
that please nobody who wants to know
| exactly how he stands on this or that
burning question of the day. He has de-
clined to face even the Democratic plat
form and has declared that platform
| is not a program" He has gone SO far
as to state that he wants a relative
tariff or protection" whatever that may
mean, although the platform that he has
been selected to represent definitely de-
clares that all protection is unconstitu-
tional. The truth is, DR.. Wilson has not
in any single instance declared himself
definitely or in manly and clear man
ner on any question that directly con-
Germs labor.
! Elbert Hubbard the other day wrote
the following regarding DR.. Wilson's at
titude toward the trusts: Wilson has
SO much to say about the control of the
trusts, and yet he set out to nibble at a
| so-called fund, set aside by man who
made his money through protected mo-
| nopoly and endeavored to use this fund
to grub-stake himself as a professional
nominee"
Now the foregoing is absolutely true.
1t refers to the Carnegie fund for pen
sioning college professors. The action
of DR.. Wilson in applying for the bene-
| fits of that fund-he was refused, of
course-adds one more proof of his con-
summate hypocrisy. In fact he has
played the part of an expert Peksniff
on every question that is before the
country as labor question
| DR.. Wilson mas had ample opportunity
| to explain or defend his writings on
trade unions and on the Chinese. He
has utterly failed to do SO. In view of
this fact, or rather because of his miser-
able or abject lodging of these ques-
| tions We will let his full written express
sions on these matters be quoted. On
the 18th day of June, 1909, he delivered
a baccalaureate address to a graduating
class at Princeton and in it he made the
following slanderous statement regard
| ing organized labor:
You know what the usual standard
of employees is in our day. 1t is to give
as little as he may for his wages. La
Dor is standardized by the trades unions
and this is the standard to which it is
made to conform. No one is suffered to
do more than the average can do; in
some trades and handicrafts no one is
suffered to do more than the least skill
full of his fellows can do within the
hours allotted to a days labor and no
one may work out of hours at all, or vol
unteer anything beyond the minimum. /
need not point out how economically dis
astrous such regulation of labor is. 1t
is SO improbable to the employer that
in some trades it will presently not be
worth while to attempt anything at all
He had better stop altogether than oper-
ate at an inevitable and invariable loss
The labor of America is rapidly be-
coming Improbable under its present
regulation by those who have deter
economic supremacy may be lost be-
cause the country becomes more and
more full of improbable servants"
The bitterest enemy that organized la
Dor ever had. and the veriest traitor
that the wage workers of this country
ever came in contact with could not
utter 2 more vicious slander against the
wage workers-ef- the United States than
the foregoing. DR.. Wilson. the Demo
cratic candidate for the presidency of
the United States. uttered the slander
and only three years ago; uttered it
after full deliberation: after he had
spent his time and mental energies in
thinking out his conclusions in quiet so
as to state them to young men of wealth
who were just about to enter the busi-
ness and professional world How can
this man have changed his opinions in
so short time? He has not done So
The most decisive proof that he still
clings to them is the fact that he has
not the courage to deny them.
Now ask yourselves the question:
How can labor be true to itself by vot-
ing such a cowardly enemy of working
men president of the United Statesg To
do so will mean that they are traitors
to themselves. Ii will mean that they
endorse the slanderous statements of
Professor Wilson that American labor is
rapidly becoming Improbable and that
every day the country is becoming fuller
of improbable servants in the way of
wage workers. Who in the world be-
lieves that American toilers shirk their
| work merely to aid the inferior men?
What proof has Professor Wilson to put
| forth that he is telling anything like the
truth when he makes a serious charge
of this kind? He has none American
| labor stands at the top among all ma
tions in the world. 1t has been Ameri-
can labor, aided by the laws that pro-
tects it. that has placed the United
States at the head of all countries in the
| world and here We have a professor who
emerges from the confines of a college
and tells the people of the world that
our country is simply made up of lot
of shirking and lazy rascals. Why has
such heroic" trade union leader as
Samuel Gompers not attacked this SIAN
der. long ere now? Why has he not
preached defiance to this slander of
American labor? Had any other candi-
date for the presidency made such a pre-
posterous statement as that in question.
why. Mr. Gompers would have written n
hundred articles denouncing 1t and he
would also nave delivered thousand
speeches condemnatory of the man who
uttered such lie.
BY all means let labor be true to itself
and show at the November election that
such villifiers and slanderous theorists