New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 1, 1916, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1916. Wilson’s Before New Yorx City, June 18, 1909, Hon. Woodrow Wilsom, . President Princeton University, Princeton, K, J. Dear Sir:— In the New York Times of June T4, which purports to give ex— tradts of your baccalsureate adaress to the students of Princeton Uni- versity, you ere quoted as follows:— ®You know what the usual standard of the employe is in our day. It is to give as little as he may for his meges, Labor is standerdized by the trade unions, and this is the standard to which it is made to conform. No one is suffered to do more then the average workmen cen do. In some trades and handicrafts no one is suffered to do more then the least skilful of his fellows can do within the hours alloted to & dey's lebor, &nd no one mey work out of hours et all or volunteer enything bevond the minimum.* Now, your reported remarks strike me as being so extraordi- nery--so different from whaet I, as a mempber of orgsnized labor, have found to be the facts-~that I feel impelled to ask you if the foregoing paragraph is a correct report of what you said. If you ere correctly quoted, I should like to have you give me your authority for your statement thet im lebor unions “no one is suffered to do more then the average workmen can 80." Also give me the names of a few trades”or hendicralts where “no one is” suffered tc do more than the least sxilful of his fellows cam ¢o within the hours alloted ¥ @ day’s labor, and no one may work out of hours st ell or volunteer anything beyond the minimum.* = As a matter of course, & president of a university of the reputed standing of Princeton would not meke ststements in nis bacqe- laureate address unless he knows, or at least fully believes, thet his statements are true. Therefore it ought not be a difficult metter for you to oblige me with.the nemes of those lebor uniong whose laws, or even policies, bring sbout the results you speocify. Aweiting your reply with lively interest, I°am, “Yours very truly, “ — Care Evening Telegram, Wm New York City. %”/’/ * 7 Labor’s O After He “HE WAS A GREAT GOVERNOR” “Now that Governor Hughes has retired from politics and ascended to a place on the highest judicial tribunal in the world, the fact can be acknowledged without hurting anybody’s political corns, that he was the greatest friend of labor laws that ever occupied the governor’s chair at Albany. During his two terms he has signed 56 labor laws, including among them the best labor laws ever Labor’s Opinion Opinion of Labor e Entered Politics My dear Sir:e’ Yourrlett'rrof}\moilsth contains & very proper) challenge. ] T quite agree that I ought mot to meke the state- ments I did make about the trades unions, unless I were able %o cite cases in verification of my statements, I, of course, had no indivicual trades unions in) mind which I can name by pumber, but I had in mind several cases of buildings in New York City, for fxr.mp:a,_‘.he brick layers working on which spent about one third of the workirg day eifting around, smoking their pipes andi:l\atflng. be= csuse they had laid the number of \:rich‘ta \'vhichA they were limited for the day by the union to which they belonged. T had ir nird numerous experiences of my own in dealing with workirg men in Prirceton, where I once found 1. imposaible, for exarple, on & very cold evenirg to get a broken window pane mended at the house of an invalid friemd, because the, = prescrivedtlabor hours of ‘the dey veraTove PRI glasier could not vonture, without risking aiatrikeghia) do the work himeelf and coula not orderianyzoobd SPWOrDAR 0 do 44,7 hed]in nind scoresZotiinetanceniiinOrty 1ying “within my own experience and ‘rutmm:; morly cf friends_in :hopfl”imi}y—l!.);_nya@ J havs the greatest confidence,) e !.ot;eeurufe’uulcfutfmfim fi one or w0 ¢ of “these instances, giveilegal proof LRy assertions, but the evidencss I havetareiantiralyipulticime 20 convince me of the general truth of [the statonentiluade. \Vory truly yours, Ty W Riger R, Laverty. inion of Hughes Retired From Politics enacted in this or any other state. He also urged the enactment of labor laws in his messages to the legislature, even going so far as to place the demand for a labor law in one of his messages to an extra session of the legislature. “Only 162 labor laws have been enacted in this state since its erection in 1777—in 133 years. One- third of these, exceeding in quality all of the others, have been enacted and signed during Governor Hughes’ term of three years and nine-monfhs, “With such a record of approval and suggestton of progressive legislation in the interest of humman- ity to his credit, it is very easy to believe-that human rights will have a steadfast and sympathettouphoider in the new Justice of the-Supreme-Court of the United States.” From the October 1910, Issue of ‘Legistative News, Published by New York State Federation of Labor of Hughes Is Based on WHAT HE HAS DONE These are some of the Laws He Advocated and Signed While Governor of New York: Wainwright Commission of industry. Automatic mutual agreement compensation law. Automatic compulsory compensation. (The first law of this kind enacted in the United States.) Limiting the hours of labor for street car men. Limiting the hours of labor fo;r men in train . ser- vice. Limiting the hours of labor for signalmen and railroad telegraphers. Placing young women from 18 to 21 years of age in the protected class. ELEVEN CHILD LABOR LAWS extending over a period from 1907 to 1910. (These laws secured the first definite standard for the protection of children in New York.) Reconstructed the State Departinent-of Labar, Changed the penalties to make enforcement of labor laws easier. Requiring semi-monthly payment of wages, THIRTEEN LAWS relating to welfare, safety and sanitation in workshops. Republican National Publicity Committee