The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-10-30
THE REAL ISSUES.

pdlSu dIo easily 01ScOVeIoQs 1SedcClOu
is doing it's best to conceal and evade
these issues, but no thinking American
can fail to see them. They are:
Tho League Of Nations.
2-The protection Of the people
against the profteers.
3-The relation Of government to the
aspirations Of the workers.
1.-The use Of the injunction as a
means of compelling workers to obey
the will of employers.
5-The high cost Of living.
6-The establishment of arbitrary tri-
bunals and boards to coerce the work
ers, repress their normal and legitimate
activities and clog the processes of in
dustry by artificial methods.
THE right of workers to organize
for mutual advancement and develop.
ment, and to withdraw their service
when terms and conditions Of service
are oppressive.
These are the issues that reach into
every home in the land, issues that
enter into the daily life Of every man,
woman and child and that touch every
human activity.
They group together into one great
issue, which is:
Do we go forward, or do We go back.
wards
The welfare Of the working people
and the masses Of our people is knitted
and woven into the fabric Of this cam
paign, it is at the heart and center of
the whole struggle.
The forces of reaction are making
every effort to defeat the forces that
stand for progress and for justice and
that hold forth the best hope Of equal
opportunity in our Republic.
The men and women of labor have
been informed of the records Of can
didates for the senate and the house Of
representatives. They have been in
formed of the positions Of the great
political parties. Concerning these the
platform committee Of the national non
partisan political campaign committee
| said:
"* it is but fair to say that
the Democratic platform marks a meas
| ure of progress not found in the plat
form Of the Republican party. In re-
lation to Labor's proposals the planks
written into the Democratic platform
more nearly approximate the desired
declarations Of human rights than do
the planks found in the Republican
platform.
Of the Republican platform Labor g
analysis said: "With the exception
of those provisions long since almost
universally accepted in political plat
forms as just and undeniable, the Re-
publican platform is defiant of it's de-
tense Of the enemies Of Labor and CAL
culated to secure for them fresh ad-
vantages and greater privileges. The
Republican convention turned its back
upon Labor
Concerning the candidates themselves
Labor's committee said:
"There can be but one conclusion
based upon a careful and impartial sur
vey of the actions and declarations Of
the candidates. Governor Cox has
shown himself possessed Of fuller un-
derstanding of the needs Of the work
ing people, a reader response to their
needs and to their proposals and a
broader craftsmanship in his public dis
>cussions of the problems of the indus.
trial world" "Not only in the spe.
ciic utterances relating directly to
questions held paramount by Labor is
the comparison favorable to Governor
Cox. His progressive and constructive
viewpoint holds throughout his declar:
atoms on public questions. ~
In addition it stands as recorded
and unacceptable fact that Senator
Harding twice struck at Labor in an
effort to deliver a vital blow in tho
last congress.
He voted for the notorious Cummins-
Esch railroad law and has since praised
that enslaving act.
de voted to strike from the treaty
Of peace the Charter Of Labor, which
was drafted by Labor and placed In
the treaty at Labor's request and he
has since had the -efrontery and CO.
lossal audacity to say that this great
section of the treaty is detrimental to
Labor.
On these issues must America dc;
eide. r
The American people never willingly
60 back!
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