Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 1, 1916, Page 11

THE 7 POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTY. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1916x POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT, { New Yorx City, Jume IE, Hon, Woodrow Wilson, President Princetom University, Princeton, K. J. Dear Sir:i—— ‘versity, you sre quoted as follows:— “You know what the usual standard of the employe 18 in our day. It 1s to give as little as he mey for his wages, Labcr is standerdized by the trade unions, end this 18 the standard to which it is'mede to conform. . Ko one s suffered to Go more then the average workmen cen do., Im some trades snd hendicrafts no one is suffered to do more then the least skilful of his fellows cen do within the hours alloted to d dey's lsbor, end no ome mey work out of hours et all or volunteer enything beyond the minimum,” nery--so different from whot I, as a wember of orgenized labor, have paregreph 1s a oorrect report of what you said, If you are correctly quoted, I should like to have you give me your authority for your stetement thet in lsbor wnions “no one is suffered to Go more than the average workmen cen do," nemes of @ few trades’or hendicrafts where “no one is”suffered to ¢o more then the least skilful of his fellows can ¢o within the hours glloted to a coy's lebor, and no one may work out of hours et ell of volunteer enything beyond the mn;mul.' As a matter of course, & president of a university of the, reputed stending of Princeton would not meke statements in his bacoe- even policies, bring sbout the results you speoify, Awedting yohr Teply with lively interest, I em, Yours very truly, Cere Evening Telegram, /? w New York Citye @7 VL “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 occu- pied the governor’s chair at Albany. Dur- ing his two terms he has signed 56 labor laws, including among them the best labor laws ever enacted in this or any other state. Wainwright Commission of Inquiry. Automatic mutual agreement compensa- tion 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 for men in train service. Before In the New York Times of June I4, which purporis to give ex- traots of your bacoalaureate address to the students of Prineeton Uni- Now, your rerorted remerks strike me es being so extrasordi=- found to be the fects-~that T feel impelled to esk you if the foregoing Also give me the laureate adéress unless he knows, or et least fully believes, that his statements ere true. Therefore it ought not be a difficult -metter for “ you to oblige me with the numes of those labor unions whose laws, o . PRNORTON UNIVERBITY PRINCETON, W. 4. June luth, 1909, Ny dear Sir:~ Your letter of June 16th contains a very propar wonts I did make about the trades unions, unless I were able to cite cages in verification of ny statements, challenge, I quite sgree that I ought mot to make the state- POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. I, of course, had no indivicual trades unicns in mind whiech I can name by number, but I had in mind several ( cases of buildings in New York City, for example, the brick layers vorilng on which spent about one third of the working day sitting around, smoking their pipes and chatting, be= cause they had laid the number of bricks to which they were limited for the day by the union to which they belonged. T had in nird numerous experiences of my own in dealing with working men in Prirceton, where T once found it impossible, for exarple, on & very cold evening to got a broken wirdow pane mended at tho house of an invalid friend, because the 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 thisstate 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 months, Limiting the hours of labor for signalmen and railroad telegraphers. Placing young women from 19 to 21 years of age in the protected class. ELEVEN CHILD LABOR LAWS extend- ing over a period from 1907 to 1910. (These laws secured the first definite standard for the protection of children in New York.) L\ POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. He Entered Politics prescrived labor hours of the day wera over and the glaaler could not venture, without risking a strike, to do the work himself and could not order any of his workmen %o ¢ it, T had in mind scores of instances, in short, lying within my own experience and resting upon the testie riony of frh_hd- in vhose veracity I have every redson to have the greatest confidence, I of ccursd could not, in the case of more than one or two of thege mnuicu, give legal proof of my assertions, but the evidencps I have are entirely sufficient 1o convince we of the general truth of the statemsnt I made, Very truly yours, Mr, Fdger R. Laverty, |} Labor’s Opinion of Hughes After He Retired From Politics “With such a record of approval and sug- gestion of progressive legislation in the in- terest of humanity to his credit, it is easy to believe that human rights will have a stead- fast and sympathetic upholder in the new: Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.” From the October, 1910, Issue of Legislative News, Published by New York State Fed- eration of Labor. Labor’s Opinion of Hughes Is Based on WHAT HE HAS DONE These Are Some of the Laws He Advocated and Signed While Governor of New York: Reconstructed the State Department of Labor. Changed the penalties to make enforce- ment of labor laws easier. Requiring semi-monthly Payment of wages. THIRTEEN LAWS relating to welfare, safety and sanitation in workshops. Republican National Publicity Committee e 1 e