The Connecticut labor news., 1924-02-09
Woodrow Wilson Aided Labor As He
 Did All Humanity
Labor Men of Land and Sea Stand With Heavy Hearts and Bowed Heads as Friend of
 Labor" Is Laid at Rest.
WORKERS HOLD UNIQUE MEMOR
Labor Leaders Laud the Acts of Wilson-Cite
 Specific Instances.

Washington, Feb. o.. Woodrow Wilson's efforts in behalf of social legislation and his legalizing of fun- damental laws were told by trade union officials at meeting called by President Gompers to take appropri- ate action on the death of the former chief executive.
 There have been many histori, gatherings Tn the executive council room of the A. F. of L. building Captains of industry; citizens of every walk of life; the worlds states men-all assembled here during the war. But no meeting was more dra- matic, more charged with human in- terest, than this quiet gathering of 100 workers.
 President Gompers told of Wood row Wilson's concept of liberty; of his pleasure in signing the Clayton act; of his disappointment when the the supreme court; Vice President Duncan told of the Presidents inter est in the unionist's report as a mem Der of the first American commission to Russia; Secretary Frank Morrison recalled the great wage movement of, butcher Workmep and how the meat barons were checked just prior to Americas entrance into the war; O'Connell of the metal trades, how the President reminded the labor group on the industrial relations commissions of their opportunity for labor: Furuseth of the seamen said ahat only a lover of liberty could re- sist the ship owners and sign the sea- mems act, which Woodrow Wilson did; Jewell of the railway employees I Al 1 T At- private remedy for prohteering and his opposition to shop men who broke their pledged work to join the out law railroad strike in 1919; Stevens that workers "held stop watch on congress to pass the Adamson law" was miserable subterfuge," and that the President was interested in the passage of the law; McKeown of the federal employees recalled the at- tempts to lengthen the work day of government employees, which was Blocked by the President; Don1in of the building trades department; Man ming of the union label trades depart ment and other representatives of labor told of incidents associated with the mighty industrial struggles and the political advances of workers dur ing Woodrow Wilson's presidency.
 The meeting assumed an interna- tional aspect by Vargas of the Pan American Federation of Labor declar- ing that the workers of South Amer ica and the other Latin republics hold the memory of Woodrow Wilson in grateful remembrance. It was he who checked the gray wolves of reaction when they howled that Mexico must be invaded. Iglesias of Porto Ricol said it was Woodrow Wilson who in- spired the people of that island, and who urged congress to give to Porto, Ricans the status of citizens of the United States. .s.-
 These stories were quietly told, and they were as quietly received They were doubly dramatic because of their simplicity. These veterans of numberless industrial struggles re- lated for the first time many other incidents in connection with the dead President; of his hopes; of his knowt- edge of the workers ideals-and his knowledge of forces that would sub jugate the men and women of toll.
 Elaborate memorials will be held III honor of Woodrow Wilson, but none will more correctly voice the senti- ments of labor than this voluntary yatheriuo of workers