The Washington times., 1924-07-10


coming governor, and General
Dawes having spent years in
the same city.
formidable political contingent. More.
over, their national president is John
l.. Lewis, who is personally a Re.
publican and who will not be one bit
sorry to find q reason for q Repub.
lican tendency this fall.
Thus the opposition by organized
labor here to Mr.. Davis was deep
and desperate. This opposition was
recognized by numerous leaders of
the convention. The representa-
tives of organized labor were re.
peated1y told that Mr.. Davis had
no chance to get the Presidential
nomination.
Then the undoubted high personal
character and the undoubted high
mental capacity of Mr.. Davis won
the delegates over and Mr.. Davis
was nominated.
There is absolutely no doubt that
he will conduct his campaign from
the so-called progressive or liberal
standpoint. Nevertheless his con-
nection with the Coronado Coal
Company case has stamped him in
the minds Of even the most conser-
vative trade unionists as being
what they call 'reactionary."
Blows At Unionlsrm.
When he was nominated, the
national representatives of Amer
lean Federation of Labor here as
sembled to watch this convention,
got their second blow. The first
was the platform. The second was
the Coronado Coal Company and
Don Chafin, and John w. Davis.
They were to get the only other
blow that could be handed to them.
1t was the nomination of Charles
w. Bryan, of Nebraska, in place of
George L. Berry, OF Tennessee, to
be the Democratic partys candidate
for the Vice Presidential office.
Mr.. Berry is the head of the
union of the operators of printing
presses in the United States. He
has been peculiarly successful in
making that union large and pros
pereus. He also has been peculiarly
successful in trying to make the
various local branches of that union
live up to their contracts with their
employers.
| He has been, as one observer eX-
pressed it today, a proletarian lead
ter with capitalistic ethics and &C.
cCmplishments. He has made his
union pay high regard to contracts
and he has made it accumulate large
treasury resources.
Union Business Man.
He is trade-union business man,
and he acquired enormous support
from the dominant conservative
wing of trade unionism in America
las a candidate for the Democratic
Vice Presidential nomination.
This support gave him a large
vote in the convention. It took the
convention several hours to get rid
of Berry and to nominate Governor
Charles w. Bryan of Nebraska for
Vice President.
The political leaders of the con-
vention in conference among
themselves decided almost unani-
mously to be for Bryan. They were
angling for the William jennings
Bryan vote and also for the farmer
vote out West.
Yet when they came to try to
accomplish their purpose on the
floor of the convention they found
for a while that delegation after
delegation was strong for Berry be-
cause in the States Of those dele
cations the Tabor vote" was
thought to be strong and even de-
cisive.
In the end, however, the Bryan
vote and the farmer vote were
thought to be even stronger and
even more decisive than the Tabor
vote"
Third Hard TurndOwn.
Thus for the third time In this
convention the forces of organized
labor, having got defeated in the
matter of the platform and having
got defeated in the matter of the
nomination for President, were de.
feated in the matter of the Vice
Presidential nomination; and Charles
w. Bryan instead of George L.
Berry was put, on the ticket with
Mr.. Davis.
While this thing was happeninr
a labor crowd of visitors and lob
byists sat on the edge Of the arena
occupied by the delegates and went
into transports Of first of en-.
thusiasm for Berry and then Of
outspoken attack upon the Demo.
cratic party for turning down the
labor ideas first about the platform
and then about the head OF the
ticket, and then finally now about
the tail Of the ticket.
j. j. LeaTy, an intimate friend
OF all the labor leaders in tie United
States and the best.informed writer
on labor politics in the United
states, was humbly interviewed to.
day by the fellow.writers OF his.
What do you find the sentiment
or labor to be today?" he was asked
1T never before" he replied, "has
been so outright sore and resentfui,
Close Margins Expected.
THE results OF it's soreness re.
main to be evidenced and proved.
This election looks now as If Il wore
likely to be decided by close margins
at the polls in November and NV
close margins in the Electoral Col.
lege, and perhaps thereafter hy fur.
Their close margins in the House of
Representatives and in the Senate
The question of the behavior of
the "Labor.vote" becomes politically
critical and crucial. This is not so
much hpcanSo II NOV nro,,id. :