09/14/1919
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"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."
"The whole presumption of modern experience would, it seemed to me, be in its favor, whether there was arbitration or not."
"I yield to no man in firm adherence, alike of conviction and of purpose, to the principle of arbitration in industrial disputes."
"The object of the law is that there, written upon these pages, the citizen should read the record of the experience of this state and nation."