The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-09-18
WORK AND WEALTH
TO Be PARTNERS
PRESIDENT SAYS CAPITAL
AND LABOR HOLD SAME
INTERESTS
"SPEED UP PRODUCTION"
Workers IN West Cheer Wilson's
Words when. lie, Explains Some
Reasons for, High Living
Cost.
On the Presidents special.-A new


(By Mt. Clemens News Bureau)
note of approval is now discernlble
among the cheers of the thousands OF
Americana who greet President VIII
son wherever he stops on his jour.
ney through the country. He has be.
come the outstanding prophet of the
workers, they believe, as well as the
leader of the worlds aspirations for
permanent peace. His address before
the Minnesota legislature yesterday in
st. Paul struck a highly hopeful note
for those who toll with their hands,
and in that city, in Minneapolis, and
again here, labor has let him know
its appreciation. Mr.. Wilson's talk
to the legislators had to do with the
high cost of living, but the relations
between the workers and the employ
ers was his central subject 1--WE are
face to face he said, with a great
industrial problem, the relations be-
tween those who employ and those
who are employed The working men
of the world are dissatisfied with their
relations to their employers There
are some exceptions, mostly in this
country. The situation is more acute
on the other side of the water.
World Looks To U. S.
THE world is looking to us to set
standard, and we have got to have
a constructive program that will be
followed all over the world The in
terests of capital and labor are the
same. We can no longer rega%a labor
as commodity, but must regard it as
an association of physical skill and
vigor with the enterprise of those who
represent capital. 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, pro
duction will so forward by leaps and
bounds" Tremendous applause greet,
ed these remarks as the President
made them and those who read them
later joined heartily in approval.
Labor Conference Next Month.
There must be discussions between
employers and employed, the Presi-
dent said, and his intimation seemed
to be that the producers must re-
ceive a larger share of the profits
from what they produce. Mr. Wilson
has said that the international labor
arranged for by the worlds
statesmen in Paris will take place in
Washington next month whether the
peace treaty with the League of Ma
tions is ratified by Ampica or not,
and it is understood that he, provided
America has a formal share in the
proceedings, will be one of the lead
ing figures in it. Workers in this
section believe he will be strong in
his advocacy of their cause. The
President gave the Minnesota legis-
lators several reasons for the high
cost of living. Man power, he said,
had been sacrificed on the battlefield
All the processes of production, ex.
cept for war purposes, had been
slackened or stopped. Nearly all en-
ergy had been along channels not
suited 10 normal needs. Labor must
be redistributed so that it may pro,l
duce what people need to eat and
wear, and for purposes of peace.
Readjustment Necessary,
Back of all this is the fact that we
have not learned what the basis Of
peace is to be. The world will not !
settle down until it knows what part
the United States is to play in the
peace" Mr. Wilson said. He explain
ed that we must get back to normal
processes Of manufacture and distri-
bution our own railways and ter
minal ports cannot now handle even
our own business, he said, but we
must handle not only that but assist
in increasing the manufacturing and
functions of the world
Cold storage systems must be looked
into as the cause of high prices here,
he President said, but other sorts of
storage as we'll He said some per-
sons had found it impossible to dole
out goods so that they were not re
eased fast enough to bring prices
lown, and this condition should be
closely scrutinized. Splendid military
)arades and great outpourings of citi-
.ens greeted Wilson in St Paul and
and the heartiest sort of
/ welcome was given him when he
cached this city.