New-York tribune., 1920-10-20
Miller Assails
Smiths Social
w Welfare Plans
Governor Merely Trying to
Fix Wages. Overlooking
All Other Big Issues, Up
State Audiences Are Told
Hurt w orkers, He Charges
Judge Holds Executive Re
sponsible for Delays in
Payment of Compensation
From a star Correspondent

ELMIRA, N. Y, Oct. 19.-Judge Ma
than L. Miller to-day campaigned his
way through the agricultural commu-
mites between this city and Ithaca,
ending up tonight with addresses here
and at Corning, twenty miles away.
Replying tonight to Governor smiths
call for a discussion of state issues,
the Republican nominee riddled his op-
ponents social welfare program. he
assailed the Democratic nominee espe-
cially for striking his national colors'
in order to force discussion OF I'M
provements in the state laws. which the
Governor claims but the Republican
Legislature originated.
The judge attacked the Governor
for failing to bring about condition
in the State Industrial Commission so
that injured workmen and the widows
of those who were killed in hazardous
occupations did not receive prompt set
Elements under the provisions Of the
workmen's compensation act.
Attacks Governors Stand
II notice" said Judge Miller, "that
the Governor in his speech last night
in enumerating the achievements of the
last two years, for most OF which he
ought at least to share the credit with
a Republican Legislature, heads the
list with the elimination from the
workmen's compensation act Of what
he calls the pernicious direct settle
ment clause
"I take it that we may therefore
infer that he considered that to be his
greatest achievement, and he invites
me to stop talking about the League Of
Nations. the extravagant and inefi-
cent Democratic Administration at
Washington and the autocratic abuse
of power, and to discuss the elimiHa-
tion of direct settlement of workmen's
compensation claims. Surely, he is in
great stress when be strikes his ma
tional colors in the attempt to make
that subject political issue, because
he is certainly indebted to Repub-
lican Legislature for that change in
thing about the operation of the work
mems compensation act knows that has
not been its chief difficulty.
THE Governor has been begging me
to talk about his social welfare pro-
gram. That program seems to have
been narrowed down to a commission
to fix minimum wages. If that were
all | hope to accomplish for social and
industrial welfare | should not be talk
ing ABOUT 1t IN TINS year 1870, when
our troubles are not from minimum
wages, but from maximum costs of
everything we have to buy, largely
occasioned by the gross extravaganza
of the government.
Defines Real Social Justice
"The Governor has asked me to say
what l mean by real social justice.
Well, my conception of real social and
industrial justice goes way beyond any
question of regulating wages by the
state. My conception of justice,
whether it is called social or industrial
is summed up in the homely American
phrase, The square DEAL"
In letter to Miss Cornelia Maynard
Of Syracuse, president of the Grade
Teachers Association and one of the
leaders in the fight for increased sal
aries for teachers, Judge Miller de-
clared that the salary Increases which
were passed at the last session of the
Legislature must be made permanent
He also announced his attitude toward
the public schools.
The nominee said the state should
extend all possible aid to the improve
ment Of the public schools and the
training schools, and that one of the
most important things to do is to dig
nifty the teaching profession.