Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-04
DUDS WILSON FOE |
OF WORK|NGMEN
Labor World Quotes Utter
anoes of Governor in Address
at Princeton in 1909.

In tie current isue of the Labor
World. Governor Wilson Is held up
as a foe to organized labor. A speech
delivered by the governor while he
was president Of Princeton, before
political ambitions came to him, Is
quoted and declared to show Wilson's
true opinions on the labor question:;
The article says in part:
Governor Wilson has been before
he country as an active candidate
for the presidency of the country for
months. He has artfully appealed
for the support of labor, but V
once has he yentured to explain why
he has placed on record the most
villifying and false charges against
organized labor hat has ever been
placed on the annals before the ma.
ton.
ut is the aim of those who are In
rue sympathy with labor and its
rights to insist that the public be
kept apprised of the ISLANDERS uttered
against organized labor by DIR. Will
son at a time when he had NJ
thought of contesting for the presi-
dency CT the country. When he made
e'N~fers 'tey were his r u
ms, and he desired that the
v.rld be influenced by them. He has
never attempted to de..y them nor
to explain them. They stand against
him showing him as one of the Bit
terest and most cunning foes that
organized labor has ever had.
Labor Utterance Cited.
Here are the words uttered by
Or. Wilson in a baccalaureate ad-
dress to the graduating class of
Princeton on the 18th day of June.
1909:
"You know what the usual stand
ard 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 he is made 10
conform. No one is suffered 10 10
more than the average workmen 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 do in n
days labor, and no one may work
out of hours of labor at all, or vol
unteer anything beyond the mini
mum. I need not point out how
economically disastrous such a reg
I.k.- - IaI1a s1 IA s, go ,.nryAHf-
able 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
operate at an inevitable and inyaria-
BILE loss.
1.-THE labor Of America is rapidly
becoming Improbable under it's pres
ent regulation by those who have
determined to reduce 1t to a mini
mum. Our economic supremacy may
be lost because the country grows
more and more full of Improbable
workmen servants
Must Expose Hypocrisy.
"wage-workers throughout the
country should make 1t their BUSH
ness to keep the foregoing facts be-
fore the public so that the hypocrisy
of Wilson will be completely ex-
posed.
Candidate Wilson has resolved TO
deal with nothing but the tariff aues-
ton. In his efforts in this respect
he has so far completely ignored the
Democratic party platform. But DIR.
Wilson, on the tariff question, just as
he does on all others. insists or dodg-
ing the real issue. He will not face
the facts of free trade as they have
applied to the industrial conditions OF
this country. He absolutely shuts
his eyes to the disaster that the
Democratic policy of free trade, or
reducing the tariff. brought about In
this country by the Wilson bill. Dr..
Wilson wants to follow in the foot
steps of his namesake."