04/02/1916
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"We need them now and we shall continue to need them."
"The whole presumption of modern experience would, it seemed to me, be in its favor, whether there was arbitration or not."
"I unhesitatingly offered the friendly services of the administration to the railway managers to see to it that justice was done the railroads in the outcome."
"To undertake to arbitrate the question of the adoption of an eight-hour day in the light of results merely estimated and predicted would be to undertake an enterprise of conjecture."