The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-09-26
Declares To Crowd Of New Jersey
Merchants AT Shadow Lawn
That Adamson Law Passed
Congress Because II Was lust
SAYS REPUBLICANS VOTED ;,.t
FOR EIGHT HOUR MEASURE
Gives His Reason For Refusing
To Hold Out For Arbitration Of
the Demands Made BY Four
Great Railroad Brotherhoods

r oNG BRANCH, September "a
l.. From his porch at Shadow Lawn
- yestetday afternoon, Woodrow
Wilson talked about the aims of his
administration in the recent railroad
labor crisis and defended the, eight
hour day Adamson law, which was
rushed through congress just before
the adjoorhmsnt. ,'. Y ll....[ + y,
He told his hearers that the measure
had been supported by the Republicans
OF the TIVE. houses because Of its in.
herent business under the conditions
that prevailed He declared that he
had taken his stand firmly against the
proposal to arbitrate the eight hour
day demands of the brotherhoods be.
cause, in his opinion the eight hour
day was not an Attributable question.
IT stood as q matter of right and
Justice and not as question which
could be, adjusted to suit. the policies
or needs Of certain class in the com.
munity. 49, e.
Ignored Judge Hughes
The President did not mention the
attacks . made upon him by Mr..
Hughes, Republican candidate for the
presidency nor did he mention his
opponent by name, but he referred
again and again to the support given
the Adamson measure by the seventy
Republican cmembers of congress who
voted for Its passage.
Referring TO the conditions which
confronted the country and which the
Adamson bill he hopes, will do much
TO mitigate, Mr. Wilson declared ,that
1t would be intolerable to permit a
group no matter how large or small to
gain such control of the affairs Of
the nation as to be able to check the
How Of the necessaries of life to the
people. ..s e.. ~
He also defended the Federal reserve
bank act, which, he asserted does not
in any way shackle the hands Of
American business men but on the con.
trary frees them of the constant dread
OF a panic. =, r, t"- ....,
Holds Informal Reception
Immediately. following the address
the President and Mrs. Wilson held an
informal reception on the grounds of
Shadow Lawn, and hundreds shook
hands with the chief executive. Mr..
Wilson also announced that he has &C.
cepted an invitation to peak at Oma.
ha, Nebraska, October s, and that he
might go to Chicago for a single ad.
dress, although the plans for this last
have not yet been completed, and are
merely tentative.
Most of those present St the address
yesterday were merchants of New
Jersey, to whom the President had ex.
tended special invitation to be pres.
ent. The speaker began by saying
that he wanted to make clear to them
and to the people. of the country at
large, just what his stand on the rail
road crisis had been and why he had
adopted TINT attitude.
81 have been blamed for atandinR
out against arbitration of the demands
Of the brotAerhOods for an eight hour
day." he. said. ~ have been told in
editorial columns and elsewhere that IL
have endangered the future Of the
country by the stand that I took at
that time, aud that I yielded to the
demands Of the unions as matter of
political expedieney.
Yielded To Nothing
As matter of fact I yielded to
nothing. Ifsided with the members of
the brotherhOods in their demands for |
an eight hour day because believed
and still believe that they were right. |
eous demands. did not insist upon |
arbitration II Is true. / have been told |
that by taking the stand l did that I |
had undone'the work of years-that ar
bitration Is the only logical method of
settling labor disputes. /,
Now, I believed then and ] believe
now thar arbitration has a vast field
Of usefulness in such disputes. But l
also believe that there are some cues.
tons which cannot be arbitrated. They
are right or they are wrong on their
face. One cannot arbitrate a demand
for IN eight-h0ur day. ] believe that
1t belongs in the first category. 1t is
right on its face. $780,.
"That l was not alone in this belief
Is shown" by the record of the voting
in the passage of the, Adamsou bill
Seventy Republicans voted for the
passage of that measure. They did not
10 so because "they thought | was
S'0ht Thev did it.because. on the face
of things the Adamson measure was
right. = 'i'u" ,-i'l ,sa,
1.-THE eight hour demand was right:
1T was jtTst, and it was necessary. In
voting for the AdamsOu bill the con
gressmen, Republican and Democrat,