The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-10
Labor Wants to. Know
Where Wilson Stands
philadelphia Evening Times.

iilluucAHii1d INSAttltS w
Governor Wilson'S refusal to face
the labor question fairly is causing
deep resentment among the working
men of the country. They want to
know how Mr.. Wilson stands on the
vital questions which affect them.
They know he has sneered at the
minimum wage plan. and has side
stepped most of the other pressing
questions.
In the current issue Of the Labor
World Of Pittsburg Wilson Is scored
numerically for his attitude towards
labor.
Under the heading 'Wilson ISLANDERS
Labor" the Labor World says:
From the standpoint of labor the
democratic candidate for the presi-
dency of the United States. talks the
more tiresome and wishywashy does
he become. He persists in avoiding
the vital questions that labor wants
him to answer. He has v had
an equal in dealing out platitudes that
meal nothing definite and that please
nobody who wants to know exactly
how he stands on this or hat burn
ing question Of the day. He has de-
clined to face even the democratic
platform and has declared that a
platform is not a program
Never Declared Himself.
; He has gone 80 far as to state that
he wants a relative tariff Or protec-
ton whatever that may mean. al.
though the platform that he has been
selected to represent definitely de-
clares that ali protection is uncon-
stitutional.
THE truth is DR.. Wilson has not in
any single instance declared himself
definitely or in a manly and clear
manner on any question that directly
concerns labor.
Gilbert Hubbard the other day
wrote the following regarding DR..
Wilson'S attitude toward the trusts:
the control of the trusts. and yet he
set out to nibble at a so-called fund.
set aside by a man who made his
money through protected monopoly
and endeavored to use this fund to
grubstake himself as a presidential
nominee
Nov the foregoing is absolutely
true. II refers to the Carnegie fund
for nensioning college professors. The
action of DR.. Wilson in applying for
the benefits of that fund-he was re-
fused. of course-adds one more proof
Of his consummate hypocrisy. In fact
he has played the part Of an expert
Pecksnif on every question that Is
before the country as a labor ques-
ton.
DR.. Wilson has had ample oppor-
tunity to explain or defend his writ
inEs on trade unions and on the Chi
nese. He has utterly failed to dc so.
In view OF this fact. or rather because
Of his miserable or abject lodging Of
these questions We will let his full
written expressions on these matters
be quoted. On the 18th day Of June.
1909. he delivered a haccalaureate adj
dress fn a rad3Yafino c1oc CO ~ Dr3~NA
ton and in it he made the following
slanderous statement regarding or
ganized labor:
You know what the usual stand.
ard Of employees is in our day. 1t is
to give as little as he may for his
wages. Labor 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 thar the
average can do: in some trades and
handicrafts no one is suffered to do
more than the least skillful Of his
fellows can do within the hours al:
lotted to a days labor and no one
may work out Of hours at all, or
volunteer anything beyond the mini
mum.
Labor Improbable.
IL need not point out how econ.
omically disastrous such a regulation
Of labor is. It is so improbable to
the employer that in some trades it
will presently not be worth while to
attempt ANYTHING at all. He had bet
ter stop altogether than operate at
an inevitable and invariable loss.
The labor Of America is rapidly
becoming improbable under it's pres
cnt regulation by those who have
determined to reduce 1t to a mini
mum. Our economic supremacy may
be lost because the country becomes
n more full of Improbable
servants
The bitterest enemy that organ.
lied labor ever had. and the veriest
traitor that the wage workers of this
country ever came in contact with
could not utter a more vicious SANDER
against the wage workers Of the
United States than the foregoing.
DR.. Wilson. the democratic candi.
Gate for the presidency Of the United
States. uttered the SANDER and only
three years ago: uttered it after full
elaboration; after he had spent his