Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-08
DETROIT PEOPLE
WELCOME HUGHES
TO THEIR CITY
Republican Presidential Nom.
inee Met by Great Throngs
of Citizens and Escorted
to His Hotel.
RECEPTION AN OVATION
One Hundred Thousand Per-
sons Listen to Addresses
of the Candidate.
WISHES SUCCESS TO ALL

- Detroit, Mich, Aug. 7.-Charles E.
Hughes, speaking today to forty man
ufacturers of Detroit and vicinity, en-
ploying nearly 100000 men, congrat-
ulated them upon what they had done
for the welfare of their employees and
told them that the democracy OF
the United States would not stand for
continuation of "this alleged strife
between capital and labor" and de-
clared that American workmen should
not be regarded as a mere economic
unit, but as "a fellow worker, human
being"
Mr.. Hughes address was impromp-
tu and followed a brief speech by J.
NJ. Eaton, spokesman for the manu-
facturers, who outlined the welfare
measure for employees taken by indus
trial concerns here, and suggested
that the nominee endorse movement
looking to the formation of national
welfare association of manufacturers.
Mr.. Hughes said he regarded the sug-
gestion very favorably.
Parade to Hotel.
Upon his arrival here Mr.. Hughes
headed long automobile parade from
the station to his hotel, mile and
a half away. A brass band played
popular tunes and giant firecrackers
were exploded along the line OF
march. Thousands Of persons wit
messed the parade. '..
With Mr.. Hughes arrival, it became
known that an advisory committee OF
five or nine members probably would
be named during the week by Chair
man Wilcox to assist him in the man
agement of the campaign. 1t was
said that three of the members will
be William Loeb, Charles D. Hilles
and George B. Cortelyou.
Men Not Mechanical Units.
In his address to the manufacturers
Mr.. Hughes said in part:
1T is a mistake to think of the men
through whose activity production is
possible, as mere economic units:
They are human beings. We are all
working men in this country. We
are in different spheres Of activity,
but we ought to have a sense OF CO.
operation so that every man takes
pride in what he is doing and in doing
it to the best of his ability, because
he is working alongside of every
other man for the good of the
country.
In your welfare work you are but
tressing democracy. The human fac
tor is, after all, the important factor.
You may develop your physical
plants, your physical instrumental
ties, distribution and everything that
goes to make up the material side OF
prosperity, but you are absolutely
hopeless without the human factor,
and in America, the land of free men,
the man who is at work for a living
unjust feel that the country is doing
the right thing by him. He is en-
titled to be safe in his work, to have
every precaution taken against every
sort OF accident that can be pre-
vented.
Must Protect Workmen's Lives.
"a man is put at work. How car
hee refuse the job which stands be.
tween him and starvation? 1t is per,
fectly idle to say in our industria
conditions that he can take or refuse
the work, according to his idea ot
the safety appliances, which may be
provided to protect him. You have
got to protect him. No man can work
in any position where his life, his
limb or his health are subject to any
unnecessary risks. That is good
Americanism and that is good bust
ness.
I'VE are not materialists in this
country; we are all idealists, but the
one thing that appeals to the work
ing man is the idea that he is equa
to some job in first-class way. THAI
is what makes him proud; that i:
what makes him satisfied, and wher
you consider our great industria
manufactures and the enormous ex.
tension of our industrial markets, the
hope is that in all this there will bt
right through it the spirit OF human
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