The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31
A. F. |, REBUKES
GOMPERS' MOVE
TO SUPPORT COX
80 Union Heads Bolt Leader
and Come Out for
Harding.
ASK G.. @. P. CONGRESS-
Score President for Atti-
tude Toward Labor and
Closed Shop.
ASSAIL WILSON LEAGUE
All Wage Farmers Called
Upon to Help Secure New
Regime.
ASK G. 0. P. CONGRESS-
ASSAIL WILSON LEAGUE

Samuel Gompers's attempt TO deliver
the labor vote to Gov. Cox and the
Democratic ticket received a decisive
American Federation of Labor itself.
Thirty-nine men, prominent as leaders
In the federation. answered his move
with an appeal to their fellow workers
to support and elect Senator Harding.
Their refusal to follow the lead OF the
federation leader WIS regarded as
bolt from his policies and ideas, and a
refusal to follow his leadership.
4 In addition to calling on workers
throughout the country to fail in line
behind the Republican nominee, the
appeal contains a scathing dcnuncia-
ton of the Wilson Administration.
The Administration attitude toward
labor is sharply criticised. and SINH
lar attention is given the League Of
Nations covenant as the President
submitted 1t.
At the same time the thirty-nine union
record in putting into law the provision
that labor is not an article of commerce
or a commodity. Their appeal calls for
q protective tariff.
Calls On All Ranks.
"In order that not only all ranks of
labor. but the country as a whole, may
Be benefited" the appeal begins. I'VE
urge upon our fellow wage earners
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C. Harding for President of the United
States and for a Republican majority in
both national House and the Senate
Thereafter little snace is wasted in
reaching the Democratic Administration,
its broken promises and it's faults.
II goes on from a denunciation of
Wilson methods at Washington to
sarcastic reference to his part in the
peace conference when the labor i'll of
rights was taken up. Mr.. Gompers.
says the appeal presented to the peace
conference for Incorporation into the
labor bill Of rights the clause from the
Clayton act which provides that labor
IL not commodity or article of COM
merce." 1t continues:
with President Wilson, who, before
his becoming aecandidate for the Presi-
dency, avowed himself fierce parti.
San of the open shop sitting in the
so as to read that labor should not be
considered merely a commodity or arti-
Gle of commerce
Attacks Wilson'S League.
Such a reputation, 1t is stated, con-
formed to the Presidents attitude in
accepting "the British League of Nations
covenant and thereafter attempting to
foist it upon this country"
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the league: I'VE hold that American
sovereignty should not be abridged by
our accepting such a league without
Americanizing reservations. that Amer
lean representative and liberty giving In
situations should not be impaired by per-
manent alliance with any empire and
that American labor standards should
not be jeopardized by subsection to a SUI
preme council sitting abroad. as they
would be II the league were entered into
by Gov. Cox. who said of President Will
son that what he promised | shall II
elected. endeavor with all my strength
to give"
Fear for the future OF American in
dustry unless a protective tariff is pushed
forward as barrier against the influx
OF foreign goods Is expressed in a para
graph that demands such protection as
the Republicans Will be willing to give.
Harding and the support OF every union
man for the Republican cause the APP
peal says:
Urge G.. o. u. Congress.
We feel assured that the reelection
OF the Republican Congress- which raised
the pay OF postal employees, In one year
saved the taxpayers $4,000. 900. 900 from
Democratic executive estimates pro-
x.fdad n civil x,1o
established bureau In the Department
of Labor for the betterment OF working
conditions among women and ended the
domination in Congress OF the Southern
cabal, will give sympathetic considera-
tion TO the cause of the wage earners
reduce expenditures and taxation and
inaugurate new era Of commercial ex-
pansion in which American workmen
will be full participants and bepc-
ficiaries.
I'VE believe that Warren G. Harding
az President Of the United States will
grant to the workers the same justice
and understanding he has always given
90 the hundred per cent organized en-
ployees in his newspaper plant at
Marion. where he himself has handled
the printers rule.
Senator Harding has repeatedly an
nounced himself az favoring unlonism
and collective bargaining. AS In his
~Nviy protest against the unseating of
one solialist members of the New York
Assembly. he has declared that the
rights of free speech. press and assem-
blage are as sacred as the right OF
freedom Of religious belief, as lnviolable
as the rights of life and the pursuit of
happiness
Rebuke Aid 90 Coz.
Thus Il IL that for the preservation
Intact or the Republic and American
working standards, we urge his selec-
zion and that of a Republican Congress
by way OF population OF the un-Ameri-
can, unconstitutional and pro-wllson
proposals OF Gov Cox. And we depre-
cate any efforts within the American
Federation OF Labor 20 deliver the labor
vote 20 Cox while protesting nom
partisan attitude"
The signers OF the appeal humber
Representatives OF practically every
trade. men whose names are known
4broughout American labor union cir