The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-02
LABOR MEN SUBMIT
 LIST OF QUESTIONS
 TO ALL CANDIDATES
Answers Are Requested to List of Thirteen Questions Which, It Is Claimed, Affect Labor's
 Interests

Each candidate for city commissioner will have list of questions submitted to him by labor's volunteer cooperative and educational committee with re- quest that they be answered.
 Thirteen questions are propounded by the committee, the first of which asks the candidates if they will vote for an ordinance to put all city employees on an eight-hour basic day of work at pre- vailing wages The repeal of any ordi- nance taxing producers who sell direct to the consumer is the next question, and the committee desires to know if the candidates favor such repeal.
 Question No. 8 asks if the candidates will vote to furnish free textbooks for all grades in the public schools, and the fourth question asks If the candidate favors the adoption of d rule providing for all city employees to receive not less than one day off duty in seven. The question also is asked that all contracts les by the city shall be done on an eight hour basic day; that all supplies bought shall be open to public competitions; that all city employees shall be qualified voters, citizens of Birmingham and Alabama
 The eighth question is divided into three parts, and asks if the candidate will abide by the constitution of the United States, wherein it provides that 'no religious tests shall ever be re- quired as qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. the first amendment to the constitution, which provides that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free ex- ercise thereof and section of the Ala bama constitution. which IS the same as the first article in the federal consti- tuition above quoted.
 Ereeoom of press, spech, right of as sembly and petition the government for VI the questions, when the committee AAks canaloates If they will vote to re- Ftyal any ordinance uenying these rights to the people.
 The street tax is not treated kindly by the committee, for the question is asked, 'sWill you oppose and vote against any proposed street or head tax?" Candidates are asked if they will select municipal officers without regard sAN'AiAA are asked If they have made any agree ment under which any persons shall re- celve an appointment if they be elected. The committee further wants to know If any agreement is made in your be- half without your knowledge at present and you are advised of it hereafter, will you abide by such agreement or repu- diate it?''
 The thirteenth question on the list reads: Have you any objection to your answers being made public?'
 The committee in it's communication re- quests an answer not later than Septem- Der 15. The closing paragraph of the communication reads as follows:
 We assure you that these questions are propounded in sincere and earnest endeavor on the part of the committee to further the interest of the citizenship of the community by gaining and dis tributing direct and first-hand knowl- edge of the attitude of the candidates for important public office upon ques- tions which affect all labor; it is the duty of the committee to seek and distribute such information"
 The letter was signed by H. O. Me- Clurg, secretary of the committee.