Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-09-05
ORGANIZED LABOR REPORTS FAVORABLE.
 TO DEMO NOMINEE
States Governor Cox Better
 Understands the Needs of Workers

labor's non-partisan political cam paign committee comparing the pub lie records of the republican and democratic presidential nominees, de- clared in report made public to- day that Governor Cox had shown himself possessed of fuller under standing of the needs of the work irg people,
 The report, signed by Samuel Com pers, president; Matthew Woll, vice president; and Frank Morrison, sec retary of the American federation of labor; is the first ever made on pres- idential candidates by federation committee.
 Taking up the senatorial record of Senator Harding, the committee de- clared that on IS measures dealing with labor his score stood: Favor able '; unfavorable 10; paired un- favorably 1.
 The republican nominee's vote on labor issues during his term in the state senate of Ohio, as reported by the committee stood: Favorable g.; unfavoTable 0. In this connection the report said:
 sSenator Harding's record in Wash inst0n affords better opportunity for analysis of his legislative views than does his record in the Ohio senste by reason of the fact Chat his term of service extended for a longer period of time, during which he was called upon to consider a wider variety of measures
 Reviewing Governor Cox's record < the report said that while Governor of Ohio he had "acted upon 59 meas a uxas of interest to labor without aeting on q single one adversely to 1ebpr." As member of the 62 con- < gress, the governor was recorder as { sAvoting Favorable" to labor on two measures, the only ones listed.
 After reviewing and quoting at < Elength from the uterances of the can didates on labor issues in their speeches of acceptance the commit teo summarized it's findings in this laAguage:
 
 based upon careful and impartial s a0rvey of the actions and declara- tIons of the candidates. Governor oox has shown himself possessed of fuller understanding of the~ needs oS the working people, readier re- ' eponse to their needs and to their pyQopsals and broader statesman x 6hfn in his public discussion of the probiems of the industrial world.
 Platform In Clear.
 Tn addition to his superior un- { dsxatanding, Governor Cox is the efndidate on q platform which labor m declared marks a measure of < pzOtress not found in the republi- can platform and the blanks of which more nearly approximate the desir- sed declaration of human rights than de the blanks found in the republican < platform.
 Not only in the specific utter A4ces relating directly to questions held paramount by labor is the com Se1ison favorable to Governor Cox. progressive and constructive Viewpoint holds throughout his dec- lakation of public questions, though AQ slips at times into that ambigui- & t which unfortunately has marked U ! greater or less degree the plat 1oxn of both parties and the utter Aasces of both candidates.
 It must be exasperating to the Vhole American public that political !. parties bidding for the suffrage of the whole citizenship can not state < III definite terms what are their pro- 1asals and what are their pledges < he same evaporation must be felt
 arding many of the utterances of ndidates. However, the viewpoint
 Governor Cox, we find, more clear
 expressed and less open to the exaticism of lack of clarity. MoreQver, and as an argument tAet admits of no qualifying or de- 1iAl there is Governor Cox's record 11 governor of Ohio during which he aefed upon 69 measures of interest X x to labor without acting on a single $ eDe adversely to labor.
 This is record of fidelity to x humanity, of understanding of the Aeeds of the great masses of the Iaople that has few equals in Ameri- m political life.
 Wants no Pledges
 The American labor movement TIT from no man or woman a pledge
 political conduct. It seeks to dic-
 fe to none. Its field is limited, and
 pperly so. to furnishing to the rank 1d file the information upon which may base conclusions.
 There is no intention to depart ne from that rule which binds the $ ficers individually as we'll as col actively in serving the great labor Pavement. But it would be sad Aaad unforgivable remissness of duty
 this crucial hour were the facts net presented with the utmost free 6em and completeness.
 With the workers of America rest the right of deciding for which candi- dete they shall vote. As they vote hether it be we'll and wisely, or with
 distexard for the facts of life as fhey rethey will determine to a ' loxge degree the welfare and pro-
 sss of the working people of our re-