apr 22, 1886 - Special Message to Congress, asserting that labor is a vital element of national prosperity and should be of concern to the federal government. He calls for the establishment of an agency that would deal with the voluntary arbitration of labor disputes. He stated that workingmen feel there is a "discrimination in favor of capital as an object of governmental attention." This is apparently the first Presidential message on labor
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