The Alaska daily empire., 1920-09-01
Gov. Cox Record Endorsed Labor For Democrats Man
Non-P artisan Committee o Federation Reports on
 Records of Candidates

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-(By The Associated Press. Organized Labcr's non-partisan political cam paign committee, comparing the public records of the Republican and Democratic Presidential nominees declared in a report made public to- day that Gov. James M. Cox had shown himself possessed of full CT understanding of the needs of the working people,
 The report, signed by Samuel Gcmpers, President; Matthew Well, President; and Frank Morrison, Secretary of the American Fedora tion of Labor, is the first ever made on Presidential candidates by a federation committee.
 Taking up the Senatorial record of Sen Warren c. Harding, the com mittee declared that on Is meas ures dealing with labor his score stOod
 Favorable z; unfavorable 10; paired unfavorable one.
 The Republican nominees vote on labor issues during his term in the State Senate of Ohio, as reported by the committee stood:
 Favorable 6: unfavorable 0. IG this connection the report said:
 Record Tn Washington.
 l"Sen. Harding's record in Wash ington affords a better opportunity for analysis of his legislative views than does his record in the Ohio Senate by reason of the fact that his term of service extended for a long period of time during which he was called upon to consider a wider variety of measures"
 Reviewing Gov. Cox's record, the report said that while Governor of Ohio. he had acted upon 59 meas ures of interest to labor without acting on a single one adversely to labor" As a member of the Sixty Second Congress, the Governor was recorded as voting favorable to labor on two measures, the only ones listed. The committee sum marized its findings in this lan- guage:
 Fuller Understanding.
 There can be but one conclusion based upon a careful and impartial survey of the actions and declara- tions of the candidates. Gov. Cox has shown himself possessed of fuller understanding of the need Of the working people, reader re- sDonse to their needs and to their proposals and a broader statesman ship in his public discussion of the problems of the industrial world
 Tn addition to his superior und- erstanding, Gov Cox is the candi- date on platform which labor has declared marks a measure of pro- gress not found in the Republican platform, and blanks of which more nearly approximate the de- sired declaration of human rights than do the blanks found in the Re- publican platform
 Propressive Viewpoint.
 Not only in the specific utter ances relating directly to questions held paramount by labor is the com parison favorable to Gov. Cox. His progressive and constructive view point holds throughout his declara- tion of public questions. though he slips at times into that ambiguity which unfortunately has marked to a greater or less degree the plat forms of both parties and the utter ances of both candidates.
 ''It must be exasperating to the whole American public that political parties bidding for the suffrage of the whole citizenship cannot state in definite terms what are their proposals and what are their pledges. The same exasperation must be felt regarding many of the utterances of the candidates. How ever, the viewpoint of Gov. Cox, we find more clearly expressed and less |