Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-08-30
LABOR 8 REPORT !
ON CANDIDATES /
GIVES GOV. COX
SHADE THE BEST
Has "ShOwn Himself Pos
SeSSer of a Fuller Under
standing of the Needs of
the Working PeopIe0"
DEMOCRAT PLATFORM
Is BEST OF THE TWO
Ten UnfayorabIe Votes Are
ChaIked Up Against Hard
ing in Senate; GomperS
and WOIl ISSuS Statement,
10y MORNING ,oussa. SPECIAL us.sso w,ss,J

| tsT MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEss1o wIRslJ
Washington, Aug. 20 (by the AS
sociated Press. .)-Organized labor's
non partisan political campaign
committee, comparing the political
| record of the republican and DEM
ocratic presidential nominees, de-
clared in report made public to-
day that Governor Cox had shown
himself possessed of a fuller un-
derstanding of the needs of the
working people"
The report, signed by Samuel
Gomners. president; Mathew Woll,
vice president and Frank Morrison.
secretary Of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, is the first ever made
on presidential candidates by
federation committee.
Taking up the senatorial record
of Senator Harding the committee
declared that on eight measures
dealing with labor his score stood:
Favorable. 7; unfavorable, 10;
paired unfavorable, |.
The republican nominees vote on
labor issues during his term in the
state senate of Ohio, as reported by
the committee, stood. Favorable, g:
the report said
Hard!ng's Washington Record.
Senator Harding's record In
Washington affords better oppor
tunity 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 q long period of time. during
It tnh hp tA
slider greater variety of meas
ures"
Reviewing Governor CoX's record
the report said that while governor
OF Ohio he had "acted upon fifty
nine measures Of interest to labor
without acting on single one ad-
versely to labor" AS a member of
the Sixty-second congress, the gov
ernor was recorded as voting Ia
vorable" to labor on two measures,
the only ones listed.
The committee summarized its
findings in this language:
"There can be but one conclu-
sion based upon n careful and I'M
partial survey of the actions ana
declarations of the candidates. Gov
ernor Cox has shown himself pos
sessed Of a fuller understanding or
. e needs of the working people.
reader response TO their needs ana
to their proposals and a broader
statesmanship in his pablic discus
sions of the problems of the IN
dustrial world.
Platforms Compared.
I'm addition to his superior un-
derstanding, Governor COX is the
candidate on a platform which Ia
bor has declared marks measure
of progress not found in the repuD.
ncan platform and the planks or
which more nearly approximate
the desired declaration of human
rights than do the planks found IN
the republican platform
"Not only in the specific utter
ances relating directly to questions
held paramount by labor is the
comparison favorable to Governor
Cox. His progressive and con-
struetiye viewpoint holds through
out his declaration of public ques-
tlons, though he slips at times into
that ambiguity which unfortunate
ly has marked to greater or less
degree the platforms OF both par
ties and the utterances of both
candidates,
ut must be exasperating to the
whole American public that polit-
cal parties bidding for the suffrage
of the whole citizenship can not
state in definite terms what are
their proposals and what are their
pledges. The same evaporation
must be felt regarding many of the
utterances of candidates.. How
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