The Ordway new era., 1916-10-27

bles. Congress should hold Il up until a
proper commission shall investigate the en-.
tire subject; and then the Adamson bill
should be enacted either unchanged. or
with whatever changes and additions
the report of such dispassionate com.
mission may show to be desirable and
necessary.
Labor leaders who are shortsighted may
at the moment get from a man in public
Office who is not actuated by justice, more
than from man who is actuated by JUS
tice. But the laboring people as whole
cannot afford to accept such gains. " un'
inst legislation is given them Tor improper
reasons. then unjust legislation agninst
them may be enacted for improper reasons.
More than arc other people in the country
the wage workers should insist on Just and
fair action There is grave reason TO be-
| Iieve that in the course President Wilson
| has followed he did violence to his own
real convictions. Until he became n can
,iidate for Office, he was bitter. ungen-
| erous and often unjust critic OF labor
unions. have before me speeches and
letters. of his made and written in 1905.
! 1907 and 1909. in which Mr.. Wilson says
| among other things that labor unions
drag the highest man down to the level
of the lowest and in speaking of the cap
other equally formidable enemy and it is
that class formed by the labor leaders Of
this country" and again 81 am fierce
partisan of the open shop" and again ''The
usual standard of the employee in our day
is TO give as little as he can for his wages.
Labor is standardized by trade unions and
this is the standard to which it is made
to conform need Do1 point out how
economically disASlrsEs sach regulation of
labor is. Oar ecoD7unlc supremacy may be
lost because ;he couut-y grows more and
more frl Of znP-astahle servants" These
were the rtfe-4aces oi Mr Wilson when
he was president ot a university and bad
neither iear Of rsor 5esart 10 profit by the
labor ro:s In M Wilson's History Of
the American Pcaple~ be explicitly stated
THAI the Chinese oacht no; 10 be excluded
from this country he-Spze ); is better to
bave them here thxn y is 10 have the i'm
migrants We r-u set iru1 Europe His
words we're The CAiacst are more to be
desired L. Eo-kzoen than rsosi of the
coarse crew that coro> er-S7iius IN Every
ubere AZ Itse Eastern ports" Now be
turns rouai and says Oar gates nu>t be
ken o-.sa-- 70 .bosz wbo-n he ,hu. ienouli
mated 4 -cs,1rSe crew >luce be went into
r.olitics be has Azain and zeaIa. inceSsan;ly
and eousia1oasy. reversed himself OF What
as bad p-ofess~d 20 - his 6espe<: oouvic
iloas prSor 20 entering poiI,,cs. aud in
etch case TIE announced change OF can-
vis-sou agreed with what =, the moment
seemed 60 te hrs polisscsl interests
II Il I< Alleged ,hai President Wilson
has been act1z-ed only by principle in
c-oaaectsoa with the Adzrlsoa law. then
ssk shy be has failed 10 ,pply .he same
,srlrcI-,le to The railway postal clerks,
wbe-e he bas fun power Estimating SIX
6xrs g The week these postal clerks Cd
=r4-ius between New York and Pittsburgh.
are required 10 run 215 miles per iay flor
The present administration has reduced the
azrat-r of creze from 81 70 svel where
A. rbe pre<en; rrzinnen's agreement re
CURES only l55 uiles per day which is to
be reduced sill further by the Adamson
Law The only possible explanation OF Mr.
Wllsr1's acton II one case and inaction in
the other i. that only 100 men are affected
in that case where the government ha.
full control OF the bours o; labor. whereas
10000 uen are supposed to be affected by
the Adzmson bill
Mr.. Gompers has recently established
himself as the especial champion of Mr.
Wilson. and claims joint credit with Mr..
Wilson for their joint conduc; of our for
] elgu sfaIrs 30 far as Mexico Is concerned
He asks labor to support Mr WiIson .pe
| cItcaily on the ground OF Mr Wilson's
attitude IN Mexico, which. be states. he
has helped to secure. He SAYS, for exam.
1 pie. that be was largely instrumental 10
occurring the recognition OF Carranza IN
Mexico because OF Carranza's sympathy
with the labor movement there For the
details of what speak, | refer you to
| Senator FaIFs recen, speeches. where the
exact quotations are gwen Mr. Com.
| pers states that when all other agen.
cies failed IN the effort to secure the rec
! ognltion OF Carranzs by President Wilson.
Gompers intervened on September 22d.
| 1918. and Mr.. Wilson's recognition of
Carranza immediately followed Nj
Gompers continues by saying that Car,
| ranza was recognized as the friend o. the
working people in Mexico On September
| 2d. 1915, Mr.. Gompers appealed for the
support of laboring men for Mr. Wilson on
the ground of Mr.. Wilson's policy as re.
CARDS Mexico He thus tied himself up
with Messrs- Wilson and Carranza as one
OF the triumyIrate which exercises supreme
control IN Mexican matters This makes i,
worth While for the workers to whom Mr.
noinpers especially appeals TO study what
Carranza, the favored friend and ally of
Messrs. Gompers and Wilson. has dnno IN
iabor1ng men in Mexico-no: to speak of
what he has done to Americans in Mexico
MI 1ompers states that when Carranza
refused to surrender the American soldiers
taken prisoners at Carrizal, in response to
President Wilson's request, he, Mr.. Com.
pers, teiegraphed on June 2sth last to Car.
rama appealing TO him upon the ground
oi patriotism and love- for the release
OF the American soldiers; and that i'm.
mediateiy Carranza responded on June
@stp 70 MT Gompers saying that he had
ordered the release of the prisoners III,
telegram closed with Salute. very ,ffac.
tionately, V. Carranza." Thereupou Sam
uei Gompers. in the name of the Fedora.
ton OF Labor, on Jnne 3Oth thanked Gen.