New-York tribune., 1920-10-31

ardizcd by Subjcetion to a supreme
council sitting abroad. as they would
be If the league were entered into by
Governor Cox, who said of President
Wilson that what he promised shall.
If elected, endeavor with all my
strength to give
"Wc oppose that Democratic leader
ship which has petulantly refused
peace not its own and thereby has
failed to prepare American industry
for the conflict with foreign competi-
tion which it must face. Menaccd by
an inundation of foreign goods made
by cheaper labor we urge that Amer-
can workmen and the American market
be protected by a Republican tariff
which will cover the difference be-
tween the cost Of production here and
abroad.
Praise for Republicans
"We feel assured that the reelection
Of the Republican Congress, which
raised the pay of postal employees, in
one year saved the taxpayers S2.T00-
100000 from Democratic executive esti-
mates, provided civil service retire
ment plan, established bureau in the
Department of Labor for the better
ment of working conditions among
women and ended the domination Of
Congress- of the Southern cabal will
give sympathetic consideration to the
cause of the wage-earners. reduce ex-
penditures and taxation and inaugurate
new era of commercial expansion in
which American workmen will be full
participants and bene6ciaries.
"We believe that Warren G. Hard
ing, as President Of the United States,
will grant to the workers the same JUS
ticc and understanding he has always
given to the hundred per cent organized
employees in his newspaper plant at
Marion. where he himself has handled
the printers rule. Senator Harding
has repeatedly announced himself as
favoring unionism and collective bar
the unseating of the Socialist members
Of the New York Assembly, he has de-
cared that the rights of free speech,
press and assemblage are as sacred as
the right of freedom of re}ig ious be-
lief. as irvolable as the RIGHTS Of life
and the pursuit Of Of happiness'
"Thus it is that for the preservation
intact Of the Republic and Anne rican
working standards we urge his selec-
tion and that Of Republican Congress
by way OF repudiation Of the un-Ameri-
can, unconstitutional and pro-Wilson
proposals of Governor Cox. And we
deprecAte any efforts within the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor to deliver the
labor vote to Cox, while protesting g.
on-partissn attitude"
Signers Of Appeal
Among the signers are James A.
Short, former president Of the Building
Trades Department. Of the American
Federation Of Labor; William Brims,
president Carpenters District Council
re f,,ry
secretary treasurer general comr ttee
Of adjustment Brotherhood of LoCollo-
tive Engineers, Pennsylvania Lines
West o. pittsburgh; Ear H. Morton,
president Order Of Railway Station
Agents: Robert Osborne, former mem
ber illinois executive board, United
Nine Workers Of america; James 4.
Culp, ch9irman legislative committee,
Brotherhood OF Railway Conductors;
Jacob f. Taylor, secretary National
Labor Publicity Association; Frank A.
Fetr dye, secretary -treasUrer State
Council OF Lathers and member execu-
sivc board, New Jersey Building Trades
Department; John j Adams. organizer
American Federation Of Labor; John
Draney. vce-p president Lackawanna
Railway Veterans Association; Charles
Huggins, delegate American Federation
Of Labor. Wheeling, W Va; Daniel s.
jacobs, president and delegate Local
No. 10, Cigagmakers' Union, New York
John ]. Smith, president Painters
Union No 81, New York; Arthur
Stevens. delegate District Council of
Painters; Mahlon NJ Garland. former
president .Arlalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers anc vice
PRESIDENT American Federation OF
Labor; Daniel G. Smith general chair
man Rock Island Lines Switchmens S
Union; James I. Day. secrctary-treas-
urer Indiana State Counci of Carmen
ters; r. T. Sims. secretary National
Brot herhood Workers Of America
Henry Dabler secretary Indiana State
Building Trades; Arthur f. Schultz.
p. l.. f., secretary League for Indus
trial Justice; James A. O'Connell,
former pres dent Building Trades De
partment, American Federation Of
Labor; James j. McGovern, former
president Local No. so National Broth
orhood of Pottery Workers; Z. Jacob
Schott. president Chemical Workers of
America; j Ritenour, secretary Cigar
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