The Connecticut labor press., 1920-06-19
A.. F. OF |. CENSURES C. 0. P.
 MANUFACTURERS LAUD T
FEDERATION DECLARES
 IT MEANS REINSTATEMENT
Will Turn to Democrats for Aid to Protect Workers
 Liberty.

Where the Republican platform fits with labor is shown i'll the following dispatch from Montreal:
 The American Federation of Labor in annual convention here, unanimously condemned the Republican platform adopted in Chicago as document Fde- liant in its defense of the enemies of labor" and one that proposes an indus trial ens1avement and an abrogation ot rights as precious as life itself.'
 Declaring that the Republican party had turned it's back upon labor," the convention instructed Samuel Gompers and Matthew Woll, president and vice president of the federation, to submit in identical form" to the Democratic party convention at San Francisco the proposals of labor which were presented by them to the Republicans in Chicago.
 In lengthy report, bitterly assailing and condemning the various blanks ot the Republican platform, President Gompers and MT. Wo1l brought the matter before the delegates. The labor leaders indictment of the party was greeted with enthusiastic cheers and applause, while misses and "boos" 1rl- i. terrupted the reading of several of the Republican blanks.
 The statement points out Labor's grievances against the Republican plat form and vigorously assails the Repub- 1icans for neglecting antl-protlteer1ng legislation recommendation.
 .sThe Republican platform practically ignores the profiteers, the statement added, land while recognizing the evils of currency imitation, offers no remedy, for that condition. Specific proposals submitted by labor for relief from the high cost of living and profteering are given no place in the platform
 The Mexican plank of the platform, the labor leaders charged, clearly aims to undermine the sovereignty of the Mexican people and to make the main tenance of order in Mexico the business
 "It proposes the fu1hllment of what have long been the hopes and aims of those whose sole object is the exp1oita- ton of the people and boundless re- sources of Mexico.
 The Republican indorsement of the Transportation Act of 1920 was de- clared to be a complete denial and repudiation of the demands submitted by labor and Is an emphatic indorsement of the labor provisions of the Gum mins-Esch Railroad Act" The section of this plank referring to peaceful arbitration of wage disputes was said to be a denial of the lawful right of ]. the workers to cease working"
 This denial of the right to strike" the labor chiefs asserted, "the party proc1aims as one of its greatest achieve ments."
 We hold no brief for the Democratic party" continued the statement, com menting on the Republican condemna- ton of the Democratic administration for failure to enforce the anti-proh- teering laws" but I've call attention to the fact that specific proposals on this subject submitted by labor are ignored completely.
 "The Republican platform evades the issue and offers no remedy; 1t denies the importance of prohteering as the leading cause of the high cost of 1iv- ing and endeavors to put part of the responsibility upon what 1t falsely calls disproportionate wage advances. We have no knowledge of any substantial or effective anti-prohteering laws pass ed by the Republican Congress"
 The plank regarding labor's right to strike constitutes a denial of 1abor's demands and contemplates the erection of Government machinery for the coef- cion of labor and for the suppression and limitation of its proper lawful and normal activities" said the statement.
 s'It proposes to erect Government tribunals vested with the power to com pei involuntary labor. The entire plank is a denial of freedom and, in addition, subversive of the best interests of our republic"
 The labor leaders asserted Repub- licans failed to mention i'll their plat form labor's demands for a Federal law for the legal right of .s'vo1untary association" to protect itself against @unwarrantab1e issuance of writs of injunction" and the vigorous enforce ment of the Seamen's Act and the most liberal interpretation of its provisions"
 'The platform" said the statement, Is silent on the essential right of wage earners to organize into trade unions and to select their own representatives and ignores the fact that only by col lective bargaining through such organ ization of the wage workers can indus trial justice be attained"
 The labor leaders also pointed out that the Republican platform was silent on 1abor's demand that Congress should take action to prevent the Fed ton of authority in declaring uncon- stitutional acts passed by Congress" and on labor's proposal that judges of ali federal courts shall be elected by the people for terms not exceeding six years"