The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-05-29
PRESIDENT SENDS
SHORT MESSAGE
FROM EUROPE
Address to Congress Is Read by
Regular Reading Clerk.
EXPLAINS HIS STAY ABROAD
1mpsrativs Duty Makes Absence Of
cAisf Executive Nsesssary-sub-
loee Of Labor unrest Dealt
Win gxhaustIvsIy-suse
.-- tiens for Domestic
i+-l-s Legislation.


s-.s Legislation.
Warrington. May 2O.-Eor the first
t1ase u history a message from the
Dses6dsat Of the United States. cabled
fso0 Europe. was read to the congress
eeday. II was a. follows: :
~0entiemen OF the Congress: ]
Aesply regret my inability to be pres
eat ut tho opening Of the extraordi-
aasy session Of the congress- 1t still
sesms to be my duty to take part In
d. counsel of the peace conference
and contribute what can to the solu-
tioa Of the innumerabie questions to
whose settlement It has had to ad-
dress itself: for they are questions
which affect the peace of the whole
world and from them. therefore. the
United States cannot stand apart. l
deemed It my duty to call the con-
gress together at this time because 1t
was not wise to postpone longer the
provisions which must be made for
the support of the government. Many
OF the appropriations which are abso-
luteiy necessary for the maintenance
Of the government and the fulfllment
of its varied obligations for the fiscal
year l919-192O have not yet been
made: the end of the present fiscal
year II At hand; and action upon these
appropriations can no longer be pru.
IDENTIFY delayed. 1t is necessary. there
fore. that 1 should Immediately call
your attention to this critical need.
It u hardly necessary for me to urge
that It may receive your prompt ut.
tention.
Il shall tnke the liberty of address
ing you on my return on the subjects
which hive most engrossed our at
tention and the attention of the world
during those anxious months, since
tie arinistice Of last, November was
Agned, the international settlements
which must form the subject matter
o( the present treaties Of peace and
Of our national action In the immedi-
ats future. It would be premature to
discuss them or to express . 5udg-
ment about them before they are
brought to their complete formulation
By the agreements which are now be
Jog sought at the tnble Of the confer
sncs. I shall hope to lay them befors
you In their many aspects 30 soon a
arrangements have been reached.
Rights Of the Worker.
the question which stands at tie
front OF all others in every country
amidst the present great awakening IL
De question Of labor: and perhaps I
can speak Of It with NJ great advan-
tsse while engrossed In the considera-
ton OF interests which affect all coun-
tries alike a. I could at homo and
amidst the interests which naturally
most affect my thought, because they
are the interests of our own people.
by the question Of labor I do not
mean the question Of eficient indus
trial production. the question Of how
labor u to be obtained and made ef-
fsctive In the great process Of sustain
ing populations and winning success
amidst commercial and industrial
stvairies. 1 mean that much greater
and more vital question, how are the
men and women who do the daily ID.
Dor of the world to obtain progressive
Improvement In the conditions of their
labor. to be made happier. and to be
served better by the communities and
the industries which their labor sus-
tains and advances? How are they to
bs given their right advantage As citi-
sens and human beings?
I'VE cannot go any further in our
present direction. We have already
gone too far. We cannot live our right
life ~ q nation or achieve our proper
success as an industrial community II
capital and labor are to continue to
BE- antagonistic instead of being part
ners. II they are to continue to dis
trust one another and contrive how
they can get the better of one another.
or what perhaps amounts to the same
thing. calculate by what form and de-
gree Of coercion they can manage to
extort on the one hand work enough
to make enterprise profitable. on the
other Justice and fair treatment enough
to make life tolerable. That bad road
has turned out q blind alley. It Is no
thoroughfare to real prosperity. We
must md another, leading in another
direction and to 4 very different desti-
nation. 1t must lead not merely to &C
commodation, but also to q genuine
cooperation ana partnership based
upon o real community of interest and
participation in control.
There Is now In fact a real COM
nunity OF interest between capital and
labor, but 1t has never been made evil
dent In action. 1t can be made oper-
alive and manifest only on a new or
Ganixation of industry. The genius Of
=. husIn.,a mon and the anund nrac-
deal sense Of our workers can certainly
work such partnership out when once
shey realize exactly what II II that