Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-30
LABOR FAvORS cox;
HIS RECORD FAIR,
SAYS ALL. BOARD
Never Adverse to Interests of the
Workingman, Declares Com
mittee After Careful Study.
HARDING FREQUENTLY
IN WRONG, 1T FINDS

Washington, ID. c., Aug. 3O-Organ
lied labor's non-partisan political cam
paign committee, comparing the public
records of the Republican and Democratic
Presidential nominees, declared in a
report made public yesterday that Cover
nor Cox had shown himself possessed of
a fuller understanding of the needs of the
working people.
The report, signed by Samuel Comp
crs, president Matthew Woll, vice pres
ident, and Frank Morrison, secretary of
the American Federation of Labor, is
the first ever made on Presidential cam
didates by Federation committee.
Taking up the Senatorial record of
Senator Harding, the committee declared
that on is measures dealing with labor
his score stood; Favorable Z, unfavor-
able 10, paired unfavorablv 1.
The Republican nominees vote on
labor issues during his term in the State
Senate of Ohio, as reported by the COM
mittee, stood: Favorable, 6, unfavorable
D. In this connection the report said:
Senator Hardings record in Wash
ington affords better opportunity for
analysis of his legislative views that
does his record in 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 con-
slder a wider variety of measures"
Reviewing Governor Cox's record the
report said that while Governor of Ohio
he had ''acted upon 50 measures of in
terest to labor without acting on single
one adversely TO labor" As a member of
the Sixty-second Congress, the Governor
was recorded as voting favorable to
labor on two measures, the only ones
listed.
cox HAS BETTER UNDERSTANDING.
After reviewing and quoting at length
from the utterances of the candidates
on labor issues in their speeches of ac-
ceptance the committee summarized its
findings in this language:
There can be but one conclusi on
based upon careful and impartial sur
vey of the actions and declarations of
the candidates. Governor Cox has shown
himself possessed of fuller understand
ing of the needs of the working people,
reader response TO their needs and to
their proposals and broader statesman
ship IN his discussions of the problems
of the industrial world.
I'm addition to his superior undel-
standing, Governor Cox is the candidate
on platform which labor has declared
marks a measure Of progress not found
IN the Republican platform and the
plankS of which more nearly approxi-
mate the desired declaration of hun an
rights than do the planks found in the
Republican platform
Not only in the specific utterances
relating directly to questions held para
mount by labor is the comparison favor
able to Gov. Cox. His progressive
and constructive viewpoint holds
throughout his declaration of public
questions, though he slips at times into
that ambiguity which, unfortunately, has
marked TO a greater or less degree the
platforms of both parties and tie ut
terances of both candidates.
1T must be exasperating to the whole
American public that political parties
bidding for the suffrage o. the whole
citizenship cannot state in definite terms
what are their proposals ard what are
their pledges. The same evaporation
must be felt regarding many OF the utter