The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-04
HuGHES' ARGUMENTS ARE MONUMENTAL. INSULTS TO
 PEOPLE, DECLARES AVIS
Progressive State Central Committeeman Says Eight
 Hour Law Is One of Most Valuable and Beneficial Mea
 Ever Legislated Upon for the Great Masses of the People.

f to say to my fellow workingmen tha
 in my humble opinion it would be nc
 crime, in the event that any of then
 should be approached in this way, fol
 them to take all the money they car
 get from the Wall street crowd, in,
 form the authorities, and vote for MT ] Wilson. In this way workingmer
 would break no law, ,- because they
 would not be selling their votes. Those
 who should offer money, however, fol
 the purchase of votes, would be the 1 lawbreakers even though the votes
 were not delivered.
 Mrf Henry Ford, the world famous manufacturer of the Ford automobile
 who has come out strong for MT. Will son, gives the following as one of his reasons for doing so: "Pm supporting MT. Wilson because Wall street is ] against Wilson. I'm for Wilson be- cause he is on to- the interests, the i unseen hands that seek to control government-and is holding them off" In connection with the eight hour law MT. Ford also says: "The republicans are raising a great war about the eight-hour law and how ii will hamper business. I say-and ] speak from experience. not from guesswork- the eight-hour law will help business. The employers o1 the country should be- as enthusiastic ally behind Wilson in his advocacy of the eight-hour day as the workers and they would be if they knew their business. For employers who are hos tile to the eight-hour day do not know their business. We have had the eight-hour day in the Ford factory for three years, and we have made more money each succeeding year un- der it."
 Further along in his recent state ment MT. Ford said: There is abso- lutely no necessity for hard times. There is enough in this world to do for everybody, and this country all ways will find enough to do if the interests and Wall street will keep hands off and not rob the many to enrich the few" There you "have it in nutshell" right from the mouth of a man who employs 50,000 men and women on the eiRht-hour basis and who pays no individual working for him less than $5 pei day. And when man of his character makes a statement of this kind, what can be said of a candidate for office who goes about the country shouting his head off for workingmen to vote for him. and repudiate their own best in- terests by doing so. It is ridiculously absurd to even think that working men would prove so sublimely dumb as to go to the polls on election day and vote against an increase of wages Sh of other workingmen. For>evey eight hour victory for employees of any class means eventually the eight-nour Gay for all classes of workingmen and women.
 In isNbitter deunciations of the Adamson law, Mr.. Hughes fails to in- form his listeners that 75 republican members of the house of congress vo- ted for the bill, and that this number is more than one-half of the repubn- fan members of the house. Not in one single instance has he been heard 70 criticize one single republican con- Rressman who voted for the bill. Yet
 he has the consummate audacity to ask those who were directly or indirectly
 benefited to. repudiate the bill. He
 claims that legislation which can raise wages can also lower them. Did
 anyone ever hear of Wall street re. pudiating raise in wages brought | about for Wall stree. through legisla.
 tion because at some future time ir
 the dim and misty distance legisla.
 tion might be enacted which would
 reduce the wages of Wall street. No,
 on your life! Wall street has a pen. chant for getting all 1t can in the
 present and letting the future take
 care of itself, and workingmen who cannot run the same chances are ri. diculous financiers.
 AS last word at the present time to my fellow workingmen, would
 say, let future wage legislation fo, workingmen take care of itself, and
 cast your votes solidly for the mar
 who can appreciate that wage earner.
 like wage increases just as much a, Wall street likes such increases. Re. pudiate the man who is stalking III
 and down the country trying to per. | suade workingmen to vote agains
 their own interests. Cast your vote.
 for Wilson and for yourselves.-Wi1. liam H. Avis.