The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-07-28
.EMPL OVERS AND WORKERS.

Chief Executive Believes That Indus
trial Disputes Would Be Fewer if
Labor and Capital Could Be Brought
Closer ogether-Dedicates Fedora
ton Building to Common Counsel.
President Wilson at the dedication
of the new headquarters building of
the American Federation Of Labor at
washington said in part:
"Mr. Gompers is generally very hap
py In the choice of words, but he used
one word just now from which 1 wish
to demur. | am not here to adorn the
occasion, but | am here to express my
very deep interest in it and to show
how near it lies to my own heart that
the legitimate results of the great Ia
Dor movement should be achieved.
"It seems to me that it is happy con-
junction of time and occasion because
we should never make any new move
or establish any instrumentality which
will affect the national life without
thinking Of the national life and how
1t viii be affected and how we can
serve 1t. 1T Is very proper that this
e,raat buiIding ebouId 81 tbis wise no
5odicatod IN mo l.irtba,v of tho mn
+io,, W, L,,ou nv foilory cftiqans
that the mind needs air to breathe Just
as the body does
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ino fo,. COMO narsens ,ybo,, ba lovas
ar some community that ba wishes 70
aesist or soma nation tbat he Il ra9dy
to serve and defend
mTb0t is the reason why ii seems to
mo that this is y happv dly ana occa.
sion. Because. my fellow citizens. YOU
will realize that in II position such as
| occupy for the time being am not
at liberty to think of amy one class Of
our fellow citizens to Tie exclusion Of
any other class and since h e been
asked TO make q dedicatory address Of
this building am going to take the
liberty Of dedicatng il to common
counsel ana common understanding
l am going to take the liberty OF dedi
eating it 10 the thing that J believe IN
most, the accommodation Of the inter
est OF various classes IN the community
by means OF enabling those classes 20
understand one auolher ana to>to op-
crate WIN one announcer.
ne way we @eheIailF @lfINe lot
rlghtS = ny Seilliig our uSllllh2 hiood
up, ana venture 70 say liial y Tue
wrong way ana not the SNORT way. II
you come ~ me Win your hs'7 uo".
bled | thlhE can promise you that
mlne VIII douDie as Iasl ny yours put
II you coIae 10 me ana say, Let us slI
down ana take couhsel lo9ether anu II
we dlIef Iroih one aholhet' uhuc'slalio
why II ls we ailer lroll one auotnei'
just "hat tile points at lssue "ie' We
VIII presently una lhat we are hot 50
far apart after an mat me l'olitS III
Whlch we diiief are l'N anu tlle poiill9
III Whlch we agree are many "1lu iii"t
IL we oAly mao lhe patience anu iue
candor ana lile ueslIe I" get 'o7e'i'ei
we VIII get together.
The trouble IA great many oI 1he
LABOR contests we nave hda' my reno"
citizens, as you VIII Dear me out III
saying, IS that one Slde OF tue otiief
dld not Wlsh to slt down ana taK u
over ana that tne great ulhcully III
the settlement OF great many iapor
disputes has been tue dlHeuity OF get
ting cahdld ana dlspassloiiate confer
ence WIN reSaFd 10 'he poiillS ~ ~
sue. Ihe great dlllcully with the re-
atlohshlp between eapiIal anu iapol
is tIls' LABOR IS Ia liilIhedlate con-
tact win the task ltSeiI, win lle
work, Win the conditions OF the work.
with the toois win "illch II ~ uohe
ana the circumstances uhuef "Ilch
they are used; whereas capltal III TOO
many instances is at q great remove.