Arizona republican., 1916-08-20
The Labor Records of Messrs. Huahss and Wilson

The Labor Records of Messrs. Hughes and Wilson Samuel Gompers the recognized head of organized labor in this country, has practically ordered members the American Federation of Labor to cast their votes against Mir. Hughes and for President Wilson November. Of course, the order will be largely unheeded, for thinking union men are aware that the federation organized for politics to play into the hands feather the of dema- gogues. and it is the demagogue who has bid for the support of organized labor.
 But Mir. Gompers has made an issue of the labor records of the candidates for the presidency republicans will welcome the issue The record of Mir Hughes as introduced by Mir. Gompers. solely two supreme court decisions. one in the so-caled Danbury Matters case which was decided against organized labor. and in which decision Mir Hughes participated; the other in the of the eighty per cent" law from this state in which MT. Hughes wrote the opinion, holding the law invalid In the Danbury Matters the opinion, believe, unanimous being concurred in by Chief Justice White and Associates Lamar Pitney and McReynods all democrats. Against the opinion in the eighty per cent" law case only justice dissented, Mir Mc- Reynolds
 It is not to be presumed that in any the United States supreme would divide party lines. Nor Is 1t to be presumed that any honest. capable member of the supreme court would consider the effect Of opinion upon any class of citizens. He has taken a solemn oath that prevents his indulgence in considerations of this character He must be guided only by the law it appears him. Both the Danbury Matters and the Eighty per cent" law settled by the courts construction of the United States constitution. one case as we have said. the opinion unanimous; in the other there single dissenting voice.
 If organized labor suffered from either opinion, it was not the court that inflicted the suffering but the constitution the it. Nine men. learned in the law and the constitution in case. and eight in the other likely have given a proper construction of the constitution than Mir. Gompers. who Is unlearned and further disqualified by prejudice, could have given it.
 But the attitude of Mir Hughes toward organized labor having been made issue by Mir Gompers, naturally the attitude of Mir. Wilson becomes issue. What it may be in the heat of the present campaign what it may have been any time after he entered politics do not know except from his guarded utterances that labor shall receive it's dues.
 But that his attitude was unfriendly and even insolent years ago before politician do know On June IA, 1902 while president of Princeton University he delivered a baccalaureate address to the students of the university He had then political to grind. He at liberty to speak freely what he thought He addressing several hundred young who going out into the world and whose thoughts had been molded in the classroom by himself These young left their alma with these words ringing in their ears:
 You know what the usual standard of the
 empoye is in our day. It is to give little
 he may for his wages. Labor is standardized
 by the trade unions, and this is the standard
 to which it is made to conform. No one is sui
 fered to do more than the average workman
 do. In some trades and handcrafts
 is suffered to do than the least skilIful of
 his fellows do within the hours allotted to
 days labor and may work out of hours
 at all or volunteer anything beyond the mini
 l need not point out how economically
 disastrous such regulation of labor is. It is
 unprofitabe to the employer that m some trades
 it will presently not be worth his while to at
 tempt anything at all. He had better stop alto
 gether than operate at inevitable and in.
 variable loss. The labor of America is rapidly
 becoming unproftsble under its present reguIs-
 ton by those who have determined to reduce
 it to a minimum. Our economic supremacy
 may be lost because the country crows more
 and more full of unprofitabe servants
 If we had not informed you when and by whom this indictment of organized labor brought who would you have thought had done it? Naturally one would first suspect that foremost opponent of union labor, General Harrison Gray Otis, of the Los An geles Times
 Mir Gompers has added somewhat to the gayety of the natioanl campaign So far. however. ob- that democratic newspapers and orators are enthusiastically following his play. They per- haps suspected that American people would dragging of the United States supreme into ering of peculiarly vulnerable of MT. Wilson's
 
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