Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-31
GOV. COX'S RECORD
GIVEN APPROVAL Of
LABOR FEDERATION
Report of Committee Conn.,
pares Public Accomplish
ments of Two Nominees.
With Discredit to Harding

WASHINGTON. Aug. so-(By the
Associated Press).-Organized la
boris non-partisan political campaign
committee, comparing the public rec
ords of the Republican and Demo
cratic presidential nominees, declar-
ed in a report made public today
that Governor Cox had Shown him
self possessed of fuller under
standing of the needs of the working
people"
The report, signed by Samuel
Gompers, president; Matthew VOL.
vice president, and Frank Morrison
secretary of the American Federation
of Labor, is the first ever made on
presidential candidates by fedora!
ton committee.
Taking up the senatorial record OF
Senator Harding, the committee de-
clared that on eighteen measures
dealing with labor his score stood
Favorable, 7; unfavorable, 10; paired
unfavorably, 1.
labor issues during his term In the
state senate of Ohio, as reported by
the committee, stood: Favorable. s:
| unfavorable, 0. In this connection
the report said
Senator Harding's record in
| Washington affords a better oppor-
| tunity for analysis of his legisla-
| tive views than does his record ir
| the Ohio senate by reason of the fact
that 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
CT Ohio ne had acted upon fifty-nine
measures of interest to labor with
out acting one a single one adversely
| to labor" AS member of thu
sixty-second congress, the governor
| was recorded as voting favorable
| to labor on two measures, the only
ones listed.
| After reviewing and quoting a.
| length from the utterances of thu
candidates on labor issues in theii
speeches o: acceptance the commit
tee summarized it's findings In this
| language:
| Cox Is Endorsed
There can be but one conclusion
| based upon a careful and impartial
survey of the actions and declara-
tons of the candidates. Governor
Cox has shown himself possessed of
a fuller understanding of the needs
of the working people, a reader re-
Spouse to their needs and to their
proposals and a broader statesman
ship in his public discussions of the
problems of the industrial world.
| I'm addition to his superior under
| standing, Governor Cox is the can
didate on platform which labor has
| declared marks measure, of prog
ress not found in the Republican
platform and the planks of which
more nearly approximate the desired
declaration of human rights than do
the planks found in the Republican
| platform.
mot only in the specific utter
ances relating directly to questions
held paramount by labor is the COM
parison favorable to Governor Cox
His progressive and constructive
viewpoint holds throughout his
declaration of public questions,
though he slips at times into tina,
ambiguity which unfortunately has
| marked to greater or less degree
the platforms of both parties and
the utterances Of both candidates.
"1t must be exasperating to the
| whole American public that politica;
| parties bidding for the suffrage OF
the whole citizenship can not state
in definite terms what are their pro-
posals and what are their pledges
The same evaporation must be felt
regarding many of the utterances Of
candidates. However, the viewpoint
of Governor Cox is, we find, more
clearly expressed and less open to
the criticism of lack of clarity.
Moreover, and as an argument
that admits Of no qualifying or de-
NAL there is Governor Cox's record
as governor of Ohio during which he
acted upon SO measures of interest
to labor without acting on a single
one adversely to labor.
Record Of Fidelity
This Is q record Of fidelity to hui
manity, Of understanding OF the
needs Of the great masses of the
people that has few equals IN.
American political life.
1.-The American labor movement
asks from no man Or woman
pledge of political conduct. 1t seeks
tied, and properly so, to furnishing
to the rank and file the information
upon which it may base conclusions
There is no intention to depart
here from that rule which binds the
officers individually as well as col
lectively in serving the great labor
movement. But it would be a sad
and unforgivable remisaaess of
duty in this crucial hour were rnt''
facts not presented wit hthe utmost
freedom and completeness.
with the workers OF America
rest the right of deciding for which
candidate they shall vote. AS they.
vote-whether it be well and wise-~
ly, or with a disregard for the facts
of life as they are-they will de-
termine to a large degree the vel.
fare and progress of the working
people Of our republic in the years
just ahead"
Hard1ng's Votes
The senate measure on which Sem
ator Harding was given a favor
able" rating were:
Passage of immigra tdon restric-
ton bill and its repassage over the
presidents veto; war risk insur-
ance; civil rights bill; woman suf-
frage; motion to increase appropria-
ton for bureau of Cancellation, de-