Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-02-15
WOODROW WILSON AIDED
LABOR; WORKERS HOLD
AN UNIQUE memorial

Washington. D. C., Feb 9-Woodrow Wilson's efforts
IN behalf of social legislation and his egazing of funda
mental laws were told by trade union officials at meet
ing called by President Gompers to take appropriate ac
ton on the death of the former chief executive.
lhefe have been many historic gatherings in the
cutlYe council room of the A. + of L. building Captains
OF industry citizens of every walk of fe the worlds
stateSmen-all assembled here during the But no
meeting was more dramatic more charged with human
interest, than this quiet gathering of 100 workers.
President Gompers told of Woodrow Wilson's concept
of liberty of his pleasure in signing the Clayton act of
his disappointment when the first child labor law an
nuled by the supreme court Vice President Duncan told
of the presidents interest in the unionsts report
member OF the first American commission to Russia Sec
rotary Frank Morrison recalled the great wage move
men of butcher workmen and how the meat barons
checked Just prior to Americas entrance into the war;
OConne of the metal trades how the president reminded
the labor group the industrial relations commissions of
their opportunity for labor; Fuuseth of the said
that only lover of liberty could resist the ship owners
and sign the Seamens act which Woodrow Wilson did :;
Jewell of the railway employees department told of the
presidents private remedy for proteerng and his oppo
sition to shop who broke their pledged word to join
the outlaw railroad strike in 19l9 Stevens of the rail-
way tranmen SAID the claim that workers held stop
watch on congress to pass the Adamson law was mis-
cradle suberfuge and that the president interested
in the passage of the law McKeown of the federal en-
poyes recalled the attempts to enghen the work day OF
government employees which was blocked by the presi-
dent; Donn of the building trades department. Manning
of the union label trades department and other represen
tatves of labor told of incidents associated with the
mighty pohliesu Va
workers during Woodrow Wilson's presidency.
The meeting assumed an international aspect by
Vargas of the Pan-Amercan Federation of Labor declar
ing that the workers of South America and the other
Latin Republics hold the memory of Woodrow Wilson IN
grateful remembrance 1t he who checked the gray
wolves of reaction when they howled that Mexico must
be invaded Igesias of Porto Rico SAID was woodrow
Wilson who inspired the people of that island, and who
urged congress to give to Porto Rcans the status of cl
zens of the United States
These stories were quietly told, and they were as
quietly received They douby dramatic because OF
their simplicity These veterans of numberless industrial
struggles related for the first time many other incidents
connection with the dead president OF his hopes OF MS
knowledge of the workers deals-and his knowledge OF
forces that would subjugate the and women of toll
Elaborate memorials will be held in honor of Wood
row Wilson, but will more correctly voice the senti
ments Of labor than this voluntary gathering of workers.