anaheim-gazette 1916-11-02

WILSON ROASTED LABOR UNIONS ONCE SPEECH MADE IN 1909 NOW BOBS UP TO CAUSE HIM CONFUSION WAS NOT SINCERE IN FORCING ADAMSON BILL THROUGH CONGRESS In view of President Wilson's recent action in forcing congress to pass a labor law giving trainmen ten hours pay for eight hours work in order to attract the labor vote to him, and also Sam Gompers' letter demanding that all members of the Federation of Labor vote for him, the following speech which he made before the 1909 graduating class at Princeton University is of interest. He said: "You know what the usual standard of the employee is in our day. It is to give as little as he may for his wages. Labor is standardized by the trades unions, and this is the standard to which it is made to conform. No one is suffered to do more than the average workman can do; in some trades and handicrafts no one is suffered to do more than the least skillful of his fellows can do within the hours allotted to a day's labor, and no one may work out of hours at all or volunteer anything beyond the minimum. "I need not point out how economically disastrous such a regulation of union in mind which I can name by number, but I had in mind several cases of buildings in New York, for example, the bricklayers working on which spent about one-third of the working day sitting around, smoking their pipes and chatting, because they had laid the number of bricks to which they were limited for the day by the union to which they belonged. I had in mind numerous experiments of my own in dealing with workingmen in Princeton, where I once found it impossible, for example, on a very cold evening to get a broken window pane mended at the house of an invalid friend, because the prescribed hours of the day were over and the glazier could not venture, without risking a strike, to do the work himself, and could not order any of his workmen to do it. I had in mind scores of instances, in short, lying within my own experience and resting upon the testimony of friends in whose veracity I have every reason to have the greatest confidence. I, of course, could not, in the case of more than one or two, of these instances, give legal proof of my assertions, but the evidences I have are entirely sufficient to convince me of the general truth of the statement I made." Very truly, WOODROW WILSON. The committee has in its possession the original letters of Laverty and Mr. Wilson quoted. SINGLE TAX MEASURE SHOULD BE DEFEATED Danger That Amendment No. 5 Not Sufficiently Understood There is grave danger that Amendment No. 5 the Single Tax measure, will carry at the November election the trades unions, and this is the standard to which it is made to conform. No one is suffered to do more than the average workman can do; in some trades and handicrafts no one is suffered to do more than the least skillful of his fellows can do within the hours allotted to a day's labor, and no one may work out of hours at all or volunteer anything beyond the minimum. "I need not point out how economically disastrous such a regulation of labor is. It is so unprofitable to the employer that in some trades it will presently not be worth his while to attempt anything at all. He had better stop altogether than operate at an inevitable and invariable loss. "The labor of America is rapidly becoming unprofitable under its present regulation by those who have determined to reduce it to a minimum. "Our economic supremacy may be lost because the country grows more and more full of unprofitable servants." Immediately after the above address at Princeton, Edgar R. Laverty of New York City sent the following letter to Mr. Wilson. Hon. Woodrow Wilson, President Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. Dear Sir: In the New York Times of June 14, which purports to give extracts of your baccalureate address to the students of Princeton University, you are quoted as follows: "You know what the usual standard of the employee is in our day. It is to give as little as he may for his wages. Labor is standardized by the trades union and this is the standard to which it is made to conform. No one is suffered to do more than the average workman can do. In some trades and handicrafts no one is suffered to do more than the least skillful of his fellows can do within the hours allotted to a day's labor, and no one may work out of hours at all or volunteer anything beyond the minimum." Now your reported remarks strike me as being so extraordinary—so different from what I, as a member of organized 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 are correctly quoted I should like to have you give my authority for your statement that in labor unions "no one is suffered to do more than the average workman can do." SINGLE TAX MEASURE SHOULD BE DEFEATED Danger That Amendment No. 5 Not Sufficiently Understood There is grave danger that Amendment No. 5 the Single Tax measure, will carry at the November election because a vast majority of the voters do not know that the proposal is an out and out single tax scheme. The title of the measure "Land Taxation" in itself is deceptive. The Citrus Protective League is urging all citrus growers in Southern California to vote upon the measure, lest a minority succeed in upsetting the fiscal system of the state. Should Amendment No. 5 carry it would become operative on January 1, 1917, and millions of dollars immediately would be exempt from taxation, and the burden shifted to the land. Public service corporations, now paying approximately $14,000,000 in taxes annually, would escape taxation, while corporation franchise taxes aggregating $2,600,000 would be lost to the state. Clyde L. Seavey, chairman of the State Taxation Commission, declares emphatically that Amendment No. 5 would mean an economic upheaval, and land values would be impaired and unknown. Mr. Seavey says: "Mortgage loans would be withdrawn to thousands of home builders and farmers. Capital for investment in this state would cease to flow in and it would be up to the courts to determine what effect the amendment would have on the public revenues collected by the state harbor commission of San Francisco and the municipal harbors at Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego and other points. "It would seriously weaken the values of $252,000,000 worth of state, county and municipal bonds which have been purchased in good faith by domestic and foreign investors." This proposed measure is a dangerous experiment," declared F. Q. Story, president of the Citrus League. "We have received reports from outlying districts indicating that the people are not aroused to the real situation. Therefore we are urging all citizens to vote without fall on this amendment. It is essential to the stability of reality values, and to the continued ownership money was worthless just as bad characters can." Such an astounding stirred the deepest resentment of the members of the two cities, the Sons of the Daughters of the American Revolution, whose people referred to so Secretary Baker. Mrs. John F. Swift, one of the national law Daughters of the American ever since the foundation expresses herself as an marks of the secretary's society to go on reiter. "Such a gratuitous memory of the men blood to found our nation founding thing, coming from one high up in the administration and from the head of the villa it was a political made it necessary for the name of the conspiracy by comparing them to loan bandits, he is so pable." Now your reported remarks strike me as being so extraordinary—so different from what I, as a member of organized 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 are correctly quoted I should like to have you give me your authority for your statement that in labor unions "no one is suffered to do more than ten average workman can do." Also give me the names of a few trades or handicrafts where "no one is suffered to do more than the least skillful of his fellows can do within the hours allotted to the day's labor and no one may work out of hours at all or volunteer anything beyond the minimum." As a matter of course, a president of a university of the reputed standing of Princeton would not make statements in his baccalaureate address unless he knows, or at least fully believes, that his statements are true. Therefore, it ought not be a difficult matter for you to oblige me with the names of those labor unions whose laws or even policies bring about the results you specify. Awaiting your reply with lively interest, I am, Yours very truly, (Signed) EDGAR R. LAVERTY, Care Evening Telegram, New York City. To the above letter Mr. Wilson replied as follows: Princeton, N. J., June 18, 1909. My Dear Sir: Your letter of June 16th contains a very proper challenge. I quite agree that I ought not to make the statements I did make about the trades unions unless I were able to cite cases in verification of my statement. I, of course, had no individual trades "This proposed measure is a dangerous experiment," declared F. Q. Story, president of the Citrus League. "We have received reports from outlying districts indicating that the people are not aroused to the real situation. Therefore we are urging all citizens to vote without fail on this amendment. It is essential to the stability of reality values, and to the continued ownership and building of homes that it be defeated overwhelmingly." OUR COLONIAL PATRIOTS COMPARED WITH MEXICAN ASSASSIANS That the Mexican soldiery which has degenerated into brigandage and rapine had its counterpart in the Continental Army under Washington at Valley Forge (a statement made in a recent speech by Secretary of War Newton D. Baker), is a declaration that has angered members of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the American Revolution, as well as the members of other patriotic societies. "I know," said Secretary Baker, "that the Mexicans do not respect American life and property. I know that they do not pay their debts; that they are ragamuffins; that they desercrete church property; that their money is no good, and that they are generally worthless. But people never respect these things in revolution. We did not respect them in our Civil War, Washington's soldiers, in the march to Valley Forge, stole everything they could lay their hands on; took the silver vessels out of the churches and sold them to buy drink. They drove ministers out of the churches. Their county and municipal bonds which have been purchased in good faith by domestic and foreign investors." Was America First our troops five hundred Mexico to catch and then withdrew them lishing anything? Was America First up exclusive control canal? Was America First amended the Immigration wishes of the Midwest. Was America First administration sixteen the European war best preparedness program. Was America First institution failed to uphold marine upon the sea. WILSON MISUNDERSTANDS President Wilson stands, or refuses to position of the Progressive Republicans to elect Mr. Wilson is continuing the fact that there is rationation views between Republicans on economic seems amazed that conglomeration of should be a unit in Mr. Hughes. What President Wunderstands is that when the Republicans and gregives differ much are a unit on what supreme importance dance of the countr... ANAHEIM GAZETTE—THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1916 H. A. DICKEL Carries a Complete Line of Aluminum ware Granite and Steelware Also Stoves and Heaters Made in California We are proud of our Home State and her industries, our continuous support of these in the purchase and use of their products lends to the stability of her economic growth. May we suggest a few "Made in California" materials in our line: Pacific Sash and Doors. Pioneer Roofing. Monarch Windows and Screens. Stanton Oak Flooring. L. A. Pressed Brick. and don't forget Anaheim Mechanics. 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Such an astounding comparison has stirred the deepest resentment among the members of the two patriotic societies, the Sons of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the American Revolution, whose stires were the people referred to so lightly by Secretary Baker. Mrs. John F. Swift, who has been one of the national leaders of the Daughters of the American Revolution ever since the foundation of the order, expresses herself as amazed at the remarks of the secretary, and she wants the society to go on record in the matter. "Such a gratuitous insult to the memory of the men who gave their blood to found our nation is an astounding thing, coming, as it does, from one high up in the counsels of the administration and, particularly from the head of the war department. It was a political exigency that made it necessary for him to traduce the name of the continental fathers by comparing them to half-breed Mexican bandits, he is so much more culpable." 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