Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-08
HARDING PROMISES
LABOR FAIR DEAL
Republican Nominee Always
Ready to Hear Grievances
of Wage Farmers.

Strong appeal to the confidence of
labor and direct assurance of the con-
Germ which the republican party feels
for the workngman are to be "a fea-
ture of Harding's campaign for the
presidency, proftng by mistakes which
Justice Hughes made four years ago.
This Is made clear by Senator Hard
ing over his own signature in a letter
to James l.. Feeney. former president
of the Bookbinders' Union and Central
Labor Union of this city. Mr.. Feency
and Senator Harding stumped together
four years ago in New York and other
states endeaVoring to elect Mr.. Hughes
and a republican Congress.
Labor Leader Writes Harding.
Mr. Feeney wrote to Senator Ha2d-
ing. congratulating him ION his no:li-
ration and reminding him that four
years ago Judge Hughes in attacking
the Adamson law made votes for the
democratic party. as almost every time
a speech was delivered denouncing the
| law Wilson Republican Club was or
ganized in Kansas and other states by
railroad workers and other members of
| organized labor.
| Mr.. Feeney told the candidate for
| President very bluntly that organized
| labor had it's faults and shortcomings
| but diSliked very much to have can
| didate for President of the United
| States to criticise them harshly and
rub it in on them, and if he could not
| say good word in their behalf to say
nothing at all
Senator Harding replied as not only
an employer of union labor but as a
wage Garner himself familiar with the
aspirations they entertain, and said:
Harding Asks Labor's Support.
ut interests me very much to have
you write, in view of your active and
effective participation in politics.
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the handling of the labor question in the
campaign which is before us. | do not
think we shall make some of the mis-
takes which characterized the campaign
,of four years ago. I do wish to make a
,strong appeal to the confidence of the
|! him to know of the concern which the
republican party feels for the American
| workingman.
| II am not only an employer of union
labor myself, and have always had the
cordial support of the men who work
in our printing office, but 1 have been a
wage Garner myself and know some of
| the things about which they think and
some of the aspirations which they en-
| terrain.
4 want to be able to talk to labor
| sincerely and appealingly. / think
| the country needs understanding
more than anything else, and l think
| the American workingman needs to
! uiuei StdIu anu De uHuerStood
Will Help Railroad Men.
| ''I do not think we can leave the
| railroad question entirely without
| considerations; it touches the most
| important problem in our present-day
| American life. No one is SO deeply
concerned with maintained trans
portation as the great forces which
constitute the ranks of American
| labor.
! You can be perfectly confident in
saying to your friends that if the re-
publican ticket succeeds there will be
| a chief executive who is ever ready
to hear the grievances and to know
[ intimately concerning the problems
| of the great mass of American wage
earners. 1t is not possible to do all
that they want, but ! mean to do my
part in reaching that understanding
which I think is essential to the in
| dustrial tranquility of the country.