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On the recordAugust 14, 1917
I shall exercise my influence so far as it goes to see that that does not happen.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Remarks to the General Meeting of the Committee on Labor of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense

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