The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-05-31
PRESIDENT CALLS
FOR LABOR LAWS
SAYS RELATIONS BETWEEN EN-
p PLOYER AND EMPLOYE
MOST IMPORTANT
SUGGESTS RETURN TO BEER
Would Repeal War Time Prohibition
to the Extent Of Wine and Beer
Wires Will Be Returned to Fri.
yate Management

washington. May -l.-PreSluent Will
sons message, read to congress yes
terday, was as follows:
Gentlement of the Congress: l deeply
regret my inability to be present at the
opening of the extraordinary session OF
congress. 1t seems to be my duty to
take part in the councils of the peace
conference and contribute what 1 can to
the solution of the innumerable ques-
lions to whose settlement it has had to
address itself. For there are questions
which affect the peace of the whole world.
and from them, therefore, the United
States cannot stand apart. I deemed it
my duty to call the congress together at
this time because it was not wise to post
pone longer the provisions which must
be made for the support of the govern
ment. Many of the appropriations which
absolutely necessary for the main
tenance of the government and the full
flment of it's varied obligations for the
fiscal year 1919-1920 have not yet been
made; the end of the present fiscal year is
at hand; and action unon these appro-
yea enssr es prS%en tSaa
should Immediately call your attention to
this critical need. 1t is hardly necessary
for me to urge that it may receive your
prompt attention.
TO Speak on Return.
shall take the liberty of addressing
you my return on the subjects which
nave most engrossed our attention and
the ate ton of the world during these
last anxious months since the armstice
of last November was signed the inter-
national elements which must form the
subject matter of the present treaties of
peace and OF our national action in the
immediate future. 1t would be premature
to discuss them or to express a judgment
about them before they are brought to
,,lAED II,
ments which are now being sought at the
table of the conference. | shall hope to
lay them before you in their many
aspects as soon as arrangements have
=, been reached.
Labor Question.
hesitate to venture any opinion or
press any recommendation with regard
to domestic legislation while absent from
the United States and out of daily touch
with intimate sources of information and
counsel | am conscious that need, after
so long an absence from Washington, to
seek the advice of those who have re-
manned in constant contact with domestic
problems and who have known them close
at hand from day to day; and I trust
that it will very soon be possible for
me to do 50. But there are several
questions pressing for consideration to
which | feel that | may and indeed must
even now direct your attention, if in only
general terms. In speaking of them
shall dare say be doing little more thar
speaking your own thoughts. I hope that
shall speak your own judgment also
The question which stands at the front
of all others in every country amidst
the present great awakening is the ques-
ton of labor, and perhaps l can speak
of it with as great advantage while en-
crossed in the consideration of interests
which affect all countries alike as
could at home and amidst the interests
which naturally most affect my thought
because they are the interests of oul
own people.
Rights of Workers.
BY the question of labor do not NEAR
the question of efficient industrial pro
due .ion the question of how labor is tc
he obtained and made an effective il
the great process of sustaining popula
tons and winning success amidst com
mercial and industrial rivalries. | meal
that much greater and more vital ques
=, ton, How are the men and women wh'
- do the daily labor of the world to Obtain
progressive improvement in the condi
tons of their labor to be made happier
4 and to be served better by the commun
q ties and the industries which their labo
sustains and advances How are the.
to be given their right advantage as citi
zens and human beings?
We cannot go any further in our pres
far. We cannot live our right life
nation achieve our proper success a
an industrial community If capital an
labor to continue to be antagonist
instead of being partners; if they ar
to continue to distrust one another an
contrive how they can get the better o
one another Or, what perhaps amount
to the same thing, calculate by wha
form and degree of coercion they ca
manage to extort, on the one hand. wor
enough to make enterprise profitable; o
the other, justice and fair treatmen
enough to make life tolerable. That ba
road has turned out to blind alley.
is no thoroughfare to real prosperity. w
must find another, leading in a differ
ent direction and to a another destina
ton. 1t must lead not only to accom-
mediation. but also to competition an
partnership based upon real communit
of interest and participation in contro
Need Federal Laws.
There is now in fact a real communit
of interest between capital and labor. BIT
it has never been made evident in actor
1t can be made operative and NANTES
only in a new organization of industry.
Labor legislation lies, of course. wit
the states but the new spirit and metho
of organization which must be effecte
are not to be brought about by legisls
ton so much as by the common council
and voluntary cooperation of capitals
manager and workman. Legislation ca
go only very little way in commandir
what shall be done. The organizato
of industry is a matter of cooperate
and individual initiative and of practic
business arrangement Those who real
desire new relationship between capt.
and labor and can readily find a way
bring it about and perhaps federal legisls
ton can help more than state legisls
ton could.
Democratize Industry.
The object of all reform in this essel
tial matter must be the genuine dem'
cratization of industry based upon fl
recognition of the right of those WI
NsAworl, in whatever rank. to participa
W. some organic way in every decisit
(which directly affects their welfare or Il
part they are to play in industry. Son
positive legislation is practicable. II
congress has already shown the way
one reform which should be world wild
4" establishing the eight day
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