Arizona republican., 1919-05-21
The presidents message follows. Gentlemen of the Congress:

 Gentlemen of the Congress: I deeply regret my inability to he present at the opening of the extraor- dinary session of congress. Ii sti1, seems to be my duty to take part in tbe counsels of the peace conference and contribute what can to the solution of the innumerable questions to whose settlement ithas had to address itself For they 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 con- gress together at this time becaAse it was not wise to postpone longer the provisions which must be made for the support of the government; appropria- tions can no longer be prudently de- layed. It is necessary. therefore, that 1 should immediately call your atten- tion to this critical need. It is hardly necessary for me to urge that it may receive your prompt attention.
 l shall take the liberty of addressing you in my address on the subjects which have engrossed our attention and the attention of the world during these last few months since the ar mistice of last November was signed, the international settlements which must form the subject matter of the present treaties of peace and of our national action in the immediate flu | ture. It would be premature to dis cuss them or to express a judgment ! about them before they are brought to l their complete formulation by the agreements which are now being | sought at the table of the conference. ! 1 shall hope to lay before you in their { many aspects as soon as arrangements have been reached. I hesitate to ven- ] ture any opinion or press any recom- mendation with regard to domestic legislation while absent from the | United States and out of daily touch with intimate sources of information and counsel.
 l am conscious that I need, after so long an absence from Washington, to 1 seek the advice of those who have re- l mained in constant contact with do- nestle problems and who have known l them close at hand from day to day /; and 1 trust that it will very soon be possible for me to do so. But there arc several questions pressing for consid- eration to which I feel that I may and 1 indeed, must even now direct your at tention, if in only general terms. In 1 speaking of tn m I shall, dare say, be doing little more than speak your own thoughts. l hope I 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 question oi labor; and perhaps I can speak of il with as great advantage while en- grossed in the consideration of inter fae-+- -I,S.o d. I could at home and amidst the interest of our own people.
 Labor and Capitol
 By the question of labor I do not mean the question of efficient indus trial production; the question of how labor is to be obtained and made ef- fectiye in the great process of sustain ing of populations and winning sue. cess amidst commercial and industria rivalries. I mean that much greater and more vital question, how are the men and women who do the daily labol of the world to obtain progressive i'm privement in the conditions of thei labor: to be made happier and to b, served better by the communities anC the industries which their labor sus tains and advance? How are they tt be given their right advantage as citi zens and human beings?
 We cannot go any further in ou present direction. We have alread! gone too far. We cannot live our righ life as a nation or achieve our prope success as an industrial community i capital and labor are to continue t be antagonistic instead of being part ners; if they are to continue to distrus one another and contrive how they cal get the better of one another; or wha perhaps amounts to the same thing calculate by what form and degree o coercion they can manage to extort on the one hand, work enough to mak enterprise profitable; on the other justice and fair treatment enough | make life tolerable. That bad road ha turned out in a blind alley. It is n thoroughfare to real property " must find another leading in anothe direction, and to a very different des tination. It must lead not merely t accommodation, but also to genuin cooperation and partnership base upon a real community of interest an participation in control
 An Operative Community
 There is now, in fact, a. real com munity of interest between capita and labor, but it has never been mad evident in action. It can be made op erative and manifest only in a neI organization of industry. The geniu of our business men and the soun practical sense of our workers can cer tainly work such a partnership ou when once they realize exactly what is is that they seek and sincerely adoI a common purpose with regard to it.
 Labor legislation lies, of cours' chiefly with the states; but the spiri and method of organization whic must be effected are not to be brougt