Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-05-26

Fl. M. HAVNER present Attorney General of
Iowa, asks your active support and your upon
certain definite principles upon which he is making
his campaign.
He pledges himself if nominated and elected his
power to obtain the enactment of law which will give Iowa
court of industrial relations and compulsory arbitration of dis
putes between labor and capital
He stands for rigid enforcement of the laws of the
state, business administration and the
appointment of officers and employees of the
cause OF their personal qualifications rather than their
political affiliations influence.
He favors the bonus legislation in Iowa
granting to the who the call treat
ment at least favorable that rendered the any
by legislatures He would extend such bonus egsa
ton to including surviving veterans of the Civil War and Spanish
American
He pledges himself to aid in the laws which
will place the of the state equal
in their participation in public affairs will remove
present determinations against in the laws
He recognizes test of Amercansm that loyalty
to American institutions.
Mr. Havner bitterly opposed by of the poiti
cal machine which has dominated the state administration
past years professional politicians are oppoed to
him because he does not belong any Clique or
having its object the furherng of personal through
political control.
ment of the laws and by those who the force of his
hand his past efforts to that the state
obeyed
He is opposed by radical organized labor opposes
restriction of the right to strike.
Mr. Havner particularly emphasizes issue of compulsory
arbitration He insists that the public and CAPT.
ta should have voice in the settlement of differences
capital and labor
He insists that strikes should be permitted affecting
public utilities and necessities.
"The coal strike the railway strikes, public
utility labor troubles have the people of Iowa
millions of dollars and untold inconvenience and suffer-
ing during the past year. Mr. Havner.t
The farmers of Iowa have been unable to market their
grain and their livestock because of lack congestion
at railway center caused primarily by the and railway
strikes -
They have been compelled to pay exhorbant prices for
every article used by them in operation of
shortage of production caused by these and strikes
THE entire public has suffered same causes t
in other respects The strike bottom of great part
Of the present high cost of living
Strikes affecting public necessities public utilities shoud
be settled by arbitration before strike bv artra
ton after the strike has been made effective and the result
determined by the survival of the tes rather than upon
legal decision based the facts the CONTROVERSY"
A vote for Havner June a vote for the
peaceable settlement of disputes between labor and CANT
tai 1t means vote for law and order common dc.
1t means vote against machine government in
Iowa.
1t vote for the only candidate who is maxine his
campaign definite PLATFORM and who expected -
elected to be free from domination by the influences which
have brought disgrace the Office of chief executive in
IN the last two administrations.