Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 1, 1916, Page 8

! | don. Woodrow Wilsom, ' President Princeton University, Princeton, E. 3. Oear Sir:i— versity, you ere quoted as follows:— {s in our day. mages, It is to give as little as he mey is the standard to which it is mede to conform. some trades and handicrafts no one is suffered to elloted to 4 dey’s lesbor, énd no one mey woTrk out et 211 or volunteer anything beyond the minimum,” paregraph is a correct report of what you said. volunteer enything beyond the minimum.® A i Rpp— statements are true. even policies, bring gbout the results you specify. Aweiting yo;r “Yours very truly, Rew Yorx City, Jume I8, 1900, In the Sew York Times of June I4, which purports to give ex- tTacts of your baccaleureste adaress to the students of Princetom Uni- ®You xnow what the usual standard of the employe for his Levor is standardized by the-trede unions, and this o one is suffered to do more than the average workmen cen do. In do more than the least skilful of his fellows cen do within the hours of hours Ncw, your reported remerks strike me as being so extraordi- nary--so different from whet I, as & member of orgenized labor, have found to be the fects-~that I feel impelled to ask you if the foregoing 1f you gre correctly guoted, I should like to have you give me your authority for your statement thet in lsbor umions “no one is Also give me the nemes of a few trades or hendicraTts where “no one is” suffered tc do more than the lcast skilful of his fellows cam ¢o within the hours alloted gy a dey’s lebor, and no one may work out of hours at sll oFf As a matter of ccurse, a president of a university of the Teputed standing of Princeton would not make statements in his bacge- - laureate address unless he knows, or at least fully believes, that his Therefore it.ought no¥ be a difficult matter for you to oblige me with the nemes of those labor uniong whose laws, or Teply with lively interest, 1 em, . Care Evemang Telegrem, /? £ ® i H i H | l suffered to do more then the average workmen cen do." i i e , “HE WAS A GREAT GOVERNOR” “Now that Governor Hughes has retired from politics'and ascended to a place on the highest judi- cial tribunal in the world, the fact can be acknowl- edged without hurting anybody’s political corns, that he was the greatest friend of labor laws that ever occupied the governor’s chair at Albany. including among them the best labor laws During his two terms he has sigfied 56 labor laws, ever enacted in this or any other state. He also urged = June 18tr, 1909 My desr Sir:e’ Your letter of June l6th ccntains & very proper challeage. ments I did wake ahout the trades unions, unless I were able to cite cases in verification of my statements. I, of ccurse, had no individual trades unions im "mind which I can name by number, but I had in mind several Wilson’s Opinion Before He Entered Politics T quite agree that I ought not to meke the state= ‘prescrived labor howrs of the day werw over ani U:e\ - : glazier could not venture, without risking s strike, & 4o the work himeelf and could mot order amy of his warkmed %o do it. T had in mind scores of inetences, in shart, ,demvmemflm-mmugm-mw mody cf friends in vhose veracity I have ever§ redscn to have the greates® confidence, o T of ccurse could not, in the case of more tham one or two of these instances, give legal proof of my assertions, but the evidencss I have are entiraly sufficient cases of buildings in New York City, for example, the brick ; layers workirg on which spent about one third of the working day sifting around, smoking their pipes and chstting, be-: cause they had laid the number o!»hflch to which they were' 0 convince me of the gemeral truth of the statoment I made, Neory truly yours, \Soeapvincs me o the enactment of labor laws in his messages to the legislature, even going so far as to place .the de- mand 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 erecfion in 1777—in 133 years. One-third of these, exceeding in quality all of the others, have been emacted and signed during Gov- ernor Hughes’s term of three years and nine months, 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, vhere I once found i. imposaible, for exarple, on a very cold evening to get a broken window pene mended at the house of an invalid friend, because the _.abor’s Opinion of Hughe After He Retired From Politics “With such a record of approval and sugges- tion of progressive legislation in the imterest of humanity to his credit, it is easy to believe that human rights will have a steadfast and sympathetic upholder in the new Justice of the Supreme Court in the United States.” From the October, 1910, Issue of Legislative News, . Published by New York State Federation of k Labor. - Labor’s Opinion of Hughes is Based on WHAT HE HAS DONE heseAreSomeoEthelxvnfleMvodeflufl Signed While Governor of New York: Wainwright Commission of Inquiry. ) Automatic mutual agreement compensation law. . Automatic compulsory compensation. (The first law of this kind enacted in the United States.) Limiting the hours of Tabor for street car men. * Limiting the hours of labor for men in train service, Limifing he hours of labor for signalmen and ‘railroad telegraphers. Placing young women from 18 to 21 years of «ge in the protected class. . ELEVEN CHILD LABOR LAWS over a period from 1907 to 1910. i (These laws secured the first definite standard ; for the protection of children in New York.) Reconstructed the State Depariment of Labor. Changed the penalties to make enforcement of labor laws easier. Regquiring semi-monthly payment of wages. THIRTEEN LAWS jrelating to welfare, safety and sanitation in workshops. 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