The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-05-30
PRESIDENT SENDS
| SHORT MESSAGE
| FROM EUROPE
Address to Congress Is Read by
Regular Reading Clerk.
EXPLAINS HIS STAY ABROAD
imperative Duty Makes Absence Of
Chief Executive Neeessary-sub-
Ieet Of Labor Unrest Dealt
With OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
tions for Domestic
Legislation.

washington, May 20.-FOr the first
time in history message from the
president Of the United States, cabled
from Europe, was read to the congress
today. 1t was as follows:
gentlemen of the Congress:
deeply regret my inability to be pres
ent at the opening of the extraOrdi-
nary session of the congress- 1t still
seems to be my duty to take part in
the counsel of the peace conference
and contribute what / can to the solu-
ton of the innumerable questions to
whose settlement 1t 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 .ogether 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-
lutely necessary for the maintenance
of the government and the fulfillment
of its varied obligations for the fiscal
year 1919-192O have not yet been
made; the end Of the present fiscal
wear is at hand and action upon these
appropriations can no longer be pru.
IDENTIFY delayed. 1t is necessary. there
fore. that l should Immediately call
your attention to this critical need.
1t is hardly necessary for me to urge
that 1t may receive your prompt at.
tention.
81 shall take the liberty Of address
ing you on my return on the subjects
which have most engrossed our at
tention and the attention Of the world
during those anxious months, since
the armistice 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 immedi-
ate future. 1t would be premature to
discuss them or to express judg-
ment about them before they are
brought to their complete formulation
by the agreements which are now be-
ing sought at the table of the confer
ence. shall hope to lay them before
you In their many aspects so soon as
arrangements have been reached.
Rights Of the Worker.
1.-The question which stands at tie
front Of all others in every countr!
amidst the present great awakening Is
the question Of labor; and perhaps
can speak of 1t with as great advan
tage while engrossed in the cOnsidera
ton of interests which affect all coun
tries alike us could at home ant
amidst the interests which natural.
most affect my thought, because the.
are the interests of our own people.
by the question of labor l do no
mean the question of efficient indus
trial production, the question Of HOY
labor is to be obtained and made ei
fectlve in the great process of sustain
ing populations and winning success
amidst commercial and industrif
rivalries. l mean that much create
and more vital question, how are tn
men and women who do the daily il
Dor Of the world to obtain progressiv
Improvement in the conditions of the
labor, to be made happier, and to b
served better by the communities an
the industries which their labor SUI
tains and advances? How are they
he given their right advantage as cit
zens and human beings?
eve cannot go any further in OF
present direction. We have alread
gone too far. We cannot live our rigl
life as a nation or achieve our prop'
success as an Industrial community
capital and labor are to continue
he antagonistic instead Of being par
ners. If they are to continue to I'll
trust one another and contrive no
they can get the better of one anothe
or what perhaps amounts to the san
thing. calculate by what form and d
gree of coercion they can manage
extort on the one hand work enou!
to make enterprise profitable. on u
'IhCt .!uStlCc anu tiVu'ihVht S''o"'
to make life tolerable. That bad ro'
has turned out blind alley. 1t Is
thoroughfare to real prosperity. v
must find another, leading In anoth
direction and to a very different des
nation. It must lead not merely to
commOdation. but also to a genui
cooperation and partnership has
upon real community Of interest d
participation In control.
There Is now in fact a real co
munity Of interest between capital a
labor, but It has never been made
dent In action. 1t can be made op
alive and manifest only on new
ganization Of industry. The genius
our business men and the sound. pr
teal sense Of our workers can certall
work such a partnership out when OF
they realize exactly what 1t Is Il
they seek. and sincerely adopt a &C
aaon purpose with regard to 1t.
Labor legislation lies, of cour