The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-10-29

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 mar
woman and child and that touch every
human activity.
They group together into one grea,
issue, which is:
DO we go forward, or do We go
backward?
The welfare Of the working people
and the masses of our people Is knit
ted and woven into the fabric Of TIN
campaign, it is at the heart and cen
ter Of The whole struggle.
The forces Of reaction are making
every effort to defeat the forces that
stand for progress and for justice
ard that hold forth the best hope ot
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 beei
informed Of the positions Of the grear
political parties. Concerning these
the platform committee Of the ma
national non-partisan political cam
paign committee, said
i" ii is but fair to say that the
democratic platform marks meas
IRE of progress not found in the plat
form Of the republican party. In re
lation to labor's proposals the plank
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's
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 its de-
tense of the enemies Of labor and cal
culated to secure for them fresh adj
vantages and greater privileges. TIE
republican convention turned its bach
upon labor"
Concerning the candidates them.
selves, labor's committee said:
There can be but one conclusion
based upon a careful and impartial
survey 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. reader craftsmanship
in his public discussions of the prob
lens of the industrial world "Nca
only in the specie utterances relating
directly to questions held paramount
by labor is the comparison favorable
TO Governor Cox. His progressive and
constructive viewpoint holds through
out his declarations on public ques
tions. :"
In addition it stands as recorded
and inescapable fact that Senator
Harding twice struck at labor in az
effort to deliver a vital blow in the
last congress.
He voted for the notorious Cum
Minis Esch railroad law and has since
praised that enslaving act.
He voted to strike from the treaty
Of peace the charter of labor, which
was drafted by labor and placed ~
the treaty at labor's request and he
has since had the effrontery and CO.
lossal audacity to say that this grea>
section of the treaty is detrimental to
labor.
On these issues must America de-
eide.
The American people never willingly
go back!
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The slot-machine type of clerk, un-
less somebody gives him a hypodermiC
Of energy, remains all his life just
what he is, a mere selling machine
drawing a machines pay.
va "a Es
"My watch was slow" or II didn't
know it was loaded" or Il forgot" are
excuses of the man who thinks thai
all it is necessary for him to do is tc
get by.