Woodrow Wilson actually said...

I yield to no man in firm adherence, alike of conviction and of purpose, to the principle of arbitration in industrial disputes.

We need them now and we shall continue to need them.

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 ...

The whole presumption of modern experience would, it seemed to me, be in its favor, whether there was arbitration or not.