The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-09
LABOR's REPORT
| ON CANDIDATES
Committee Gives It's Recommendation
to Executive Committee Of the
State Federation on Three
OfficeA
Is NOT ENDORSEMENT
Committee Makes It Clear That No
Specified Endorsement is Made
But That Records are
Summarized.
NOT ENDORSEMENT

Recommendation OF tho sub-con
mittee of the executive board OF IN
Iowa State Federation of Labor wit
reference to the position of cand
dates towards labor have been r.
ceived by the officers of the keoku
Trades and Labor assembly IN
cover only the OH
ces of United States senator, COY
ernor and attorney general.
'In making these recommends
tions,' the report states, we al
making an effort to follow out tn
lon-partisan plan Of the America
Federation of Labor, and are nc
making specific endorsements, ou
are presenting briefly the records {
various candidates for the abov
named offices"
The recommendations in the repol
are the following:
United States senator:
Preceding the primary election
in June the State Federation OF
Labor opposed the denomination
of Senator A. B. Cummins be-
cause of his activity in having
enacted into law the Cummlns'
Esch bill However, Senator
Cummins was renominated by
small majority, and is the can
didate on the republican ticket
for election. N. -
Claud r. Porter, the nominee
on the democratic ticket, has
held no office since 1910 where
his legislative record would be
available. He has recently been
connected with the United States
attorney generals office as an
employee Of that department. In
1910 the executive board of the
Iowa State Federation OF Labor
compiled his legislative record
preceding that date and found
that he had at all times been
fair to labor, and gave him their
endorsement for governor.
For governor OF Iowa:
N. E. Kendall the candidate
for governor on the republican,
ticket, served four sessions IN
the legislature of Iowa and two
terms in congress. During that
time he was always found to be
fair to labor on every measure
that was considered. This was
at a time when his friendship
was of great value, as it was dur
ing the early days of the State
Federation of Labor. He was
recommended for the nomination
this last spring by the Iowa
State Federation of Labor pre-
ceding the primary elections.
Clyde L. Herring, the candi-
date for governor on the demo-
. cratic ticket, is a business man
of the city of Des Moines, being
the president of the Herring Mo-
tor company. He has never held
a public office that would give
him an opportunity for a legisla-
tive record. His business, in
which he employs approximately
four hundred people. is run on
the open shop plan" and there
are no union men regularly en-
ployed. 1t is true that he pays
good wages to his employees and
says that he is in favor of col
lective bargaining, but does not
practice it in his own business.
For attorney general of Iowa:
Ben J. Gibson, the republican
candidate, was recommended by
the Iowa State Federation of La
Dor previous to the primary, cleo
ton. In making the recommen-
dation the State Federation of
Labor said: Ben J. Gibson, Of
Corning, who is candidate for
this office, has shown by his &C
ton while a member of the state
senate that he had the interest Of
the laboring men at heart, and
we recommend him to organized
labor for favorable considera-
ton"
c. E. Walters, the democratic
candidate, Of Toledo, insofar as
we can find out, has never held
position where his legislative rec
ord could be secured.
We have only covered the rec
ord Of candidates for the above
three offices, as we believe they
are the only three offices in
WHICH NiIdiiy ihtSi
from a legislative standpoint.
We have not made an attempt
to. cover the Legislative records
of the candidates on the farmer
labor ticket for the following rea-
sons:
Owing to the fact that they
have not previously held office in
which their legislative record
could be secured.
In reporting on candidates on
this ticket we would be getting
away from the recommendation
of the American Federation of
Labor national non-partisan po-
litical campaign committee. Pres
ident, Gompers, speaking on this
subject, said: "There can be no
hope for success of labor party
candidates. The effect. there
fore, of a political labor party
will be to defeat our friends and
elect our enemies"
LEON A. LINK. Chairman
C. r. HAGGERTY,
r N WALLACE,