The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-11-20
President Wilson Speaks to
Labor Men at Wash
ington
JUSTICE with
HEART IN IT"
Delegation of the American
Federation Congratulates
President on Reelection

Washington, Nov. 20.-President Wilson
told a delegation from the American Fed
Grafton of Labor late Saturday that all
class feeling in America should be wiped
out by the establishment of justice with
heart in it, He declared that no one
who fails to work for this end is qualified
TO call himself true American.
| The delegation comprised the member
ship of the federations annual conven-
ton, which has been meeting in Balti-
more. The delegates went TO Washing
ton on special cars and marched to the
White House, headed by a band, TO con-
1gratulate the president on his reelection.
Samuel Gompers, president OF the fedora
ton, acted as their spokesman, declaring
laboring people had come TO recognize
that Mr. Wilson stands for Justice, free
dom and righteousness. We have taken
JOY in unfolding your hands in your
great work. said Mr.. Gompers.
Il need not say that coming to me as
you do on such an errand, | am very
deeply gratiied and very greatly eheered,
said the president in reply. 1T would
be impossible for me offhand to say Just
what thoughts are stirred in me by what
MIR. Gompers has said to me as your
spokesman, but perhaps the simplest
thing ! can say is, after all, the meat OF
the whole matter. What ] have tried to
do is to get rid of any class division in
this country, not only, but OF any class
consciousness and feeling. The worst
thing that could happen to America
would be that she should be divided into
groups and camps in which there were |
men and women who thought that they |
were az odds with one another. that the |
spirit OF America was not expressed ex
cept in them and that possibilities of an
tagonsm were the only things that we |
had to look forward to-
CAS- Mr.. Gompers said achievement is
a comparatively small matter. but the I
spirit in which things are done is the es
sence OF the whole thing and what | am
striving for and what | hope YOU are
STRIVING for is to blot out all the lines OF
division in America and create unity
Of spirit and of purpose founded upon
this the consciousness that we are all
men and women of the same sort and
that if we do not understand each other,
we are not true Americans. If we can
not enter into each others thoughts, if
we cannot comprehend each others in 4
Lerests, If we cannot serve each others
essential welfare, then we have not yet
qualified az representatives. of the Amer. 1
can spirit.
Nothing alarms America so much as
lifts, divisions. the drifting apart of
elements among her people, and the thing
We ought all to strive for is to close up
very rift and the only way to do it, Is
ar as | can see, is to establish justice
lot only, but Justice with heart in it,
ustice with a pulse in it. justice with
in it. Justice can be cold and
orbidding or it can be warm and vel
ONE, and the latter is the only kind of
Justice that Americans ought to desire,
do not believe / am deceiving myself
When | say that | think this spirit is
rowing in America. ! pray God it may
ontinue to grow. and all | have to say
) TO exhort everyone whom my voice
caches here or elsewhere to come into
his common movement of humanity"
In addressing Mr.. Wilson. Mr.. Com
ers said the delegates had decided with
ut any Encouragement to come and CON
ratulate the president. "We hope that
our next four years in the White
Touse," he continued, will be filed with
he meat of achievement for the good of
After the speeches, all the
elegates shook hands with the presi-
emit
Look out for my boys" said Mother"
ones as she greeted Mr.. Wilson.
Asks More Pay for Civil Service.
The convention of the American Fed
alton of Labor adopted Saturday at
altimore, Md, a resolution favoring
of a law by Congress granting
! government employees in the classified
vii service a horizontal increase of sal
les of at least 5000 year. The reso-
ton declared that 1T is now almost i'm
,ssible for classified civil service EN-
DYE to support himself and family on
e wages paid by the United States"