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On the recordAugust 28, 1916
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.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Demands of Railway Employees

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