The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-12
WORK AND WEALTH TO BE PARTNERS?
PRESIDENT SAYS "LABOR AND CAPITAL HOLD SAME
 INTERESTS"
SPEED UP PRODUCTION.
Workers In West Cheer Wilson's Words When He Explains Some Reasons for High Living.
 Costs.
CBy Mt. Clemens News Bureau)

CBy Mt. Clemens News Bureau)
 On Board President Wilson's Special Train.-A new note of approval Is now discernible among the cheers of the thousands of Americans who greet President Wilson wherever he stops on his journey through the country Uc has become the outstanding prophet Of the workers, they believe, as well as the leader of the worlds aspirations for permanent peace. His address be fore the Minnesota legislature in St Paul struck a highly hopeful note for those who toll with their hands, and in that city, in Minneapolis and again al Bismarck, N D.. labor has let him know its appreciation. Mir Wilson's talk to the legislators had to do with the high cost of living, but the rela tions between the workers and the en- ployers was his central subject.
 Labor No Longer Commodity.
 eve are face to face," he said, with great industrial problem, the rela- tions between those who employ and those who are employed The work ingmen of the world are dissatisfied with their relations to their employ 
 ly in this country The situation is more acute on the other side of the waters. The world is looking to us to set a standard, and we have got to have a constructive program that will be followed all over the world
 "The interests of capital and labor are the same We can no longer re gard labor as a commodity, but must regard it as an association of physical skill end vigor with the enterprise of those who represent capital.
 Organized Labor's Duty.
 You of organized labor have limited the amount of work you have done and have driven hard bargains, because you don't feel that you are partners. When you do, production will go for ward by leaps and bounds
 Tremendous applause greeted these remarks as the President made them, and those who read them later joined heartily in approval
 There must be discussions between employers and employed, the President said, and his intimatiOn seemed to be that the producers must receive a larg- CT share of the profits from what they produce. Mir. Wilson has said that the international labor conference arrang- ed for by the worlds statesmen in | Paris will take place in Washington next month whether the peace treaty with the League of Nations is ratified by America or not, and 1t is under stood that he, provided America has q formal share in the proceedings, will be one of the leading figures in it. Workers in this section believe he will be strong In his advocacy of their cause. The President gave the Min nesota legislators several reasons for the high cost of living. Man power. he said, had been sacrificed on the battle ground. All the processes of produc- tion, except for war purposes, had been slackened or stopped. Nearly all en- ergy had been along channels not suit ed to normal needs. Labor must be redistributed so that 1t may produce what people need to eat and wear and for purposes of peace.
 World Awaits Our Action. Back of all this is the fact that we have not learned what the basis of peace is to be. The world will not set ! tie down until it knows what part the United States is to play in the peace," Mir Wilson said
 He explained that we must get back to normal processes of manufacture and distribution Our own railways and terminal ports cannot now handle even our own business, he said, but we must handle not only that but as sist in increasing the manufacturing and distributing functions of the world. Cold storage systems must be looked into as the cause of high prices here, the President said, but other sorts of storage as well He said some persons had found 1t impossible to dole out goods so that they were not released fast enough to bring prices down." and this condition should be closely scrutinized.
 Splendid military parades and great OutpOurings of citizens greeted MT. Wilson in St. Paul and Minneapolis, and the heartiest sort of a welcome was given him when he reached Bis marck