Evening star., 1924-08-04
LABOR BODY MAPS
CAMPAIGN COURSE
La Toilette Wheeler Indorse-
ment Not Meant for Third
Party as Whole.
BY the Associa ted Press.


ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. August A.
Politics today claimed again the right
Of way on the schedule of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor's executive
council, in annual session here since
last Friday.
Having fndorsed the La Toilette
Wheeler candidates. and platform
the council will sidetrack all other
matters and undertake to make up
its entire 1924 campaign program,
national. state and local
Consideration of the national de-
fense day issue which unexpectedly
was listed on the order of business
after the council sessions began and
since has been deferred from day to
day, was postponed once more This
question probably will come up for
action Wednesday or Thursday.
AT least part OF this mornings
conference will be devoted to sum-
marking the reaction to the La Fol-
lette-Wheeler Endorsement as ex-
pressed in the hundreds of kilograms
that have streamed into the A. F. of
l.. headquarters at the Hotel Am
bassador since the fact of the indorse-
ment was made public.
DcIuse OF Telesrums.
Every state was said by members
of the council to have been REPRESENT
ed in the deluge of kilograms, most
OF which were declared to have been
highly congratulatory. The messages
came. it was reported, from leaders
of unions which are members or nom
friends Of Labor and from personal
enthusiasts OF both sexes in the ranks
of supporters of the two candidates
to whom the Federation pledged sup
port
La Toilette and Wheeler will win
hands down." predicted Frank Morri-
son, secretary Of the A F. OF l. A
survey OF the kilograms, had con-
Vlnced him. Morrison said, that the
two senators would make a more for
midable run than even their sanguine
adherents had forecast.
Other members of the council were
asserting that in addition to states
already claimed for the La Toilette
Wheeler combination. they would
carry Illinois and Indiana. 1t was
their belief that the act of the Fed
Grafton would be about an equal tax
upon the accumulated strength of the
Coolidge and Davis tickets.
Thus far the executive councils in
dorsement has been confined strictly
to those Of La Toilette and Wheeler
and their platform, with the en-
phatic declaration that 1t was not to
be construed as an Endorsement of any
third party.
The adopted report of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor non partisan
political campaign committee, set
forth that 1t had turned to the plat
form of the Cleveland Conference for
Progressive Political Action and that
conventions candidates because the
Republican and Democratic parties
had turned deaf ears and a blind eve
upon labor delegations who appeared
before their respective platform COM
mittees.
The Democratic convention has
been "evasive." the Republican con-
vention arrogant and both had
Haunted the desires of labor" Be
both parties are in a condition of
moral bankruptcy Machine poll
ticians have brought upon our coun-
try moral obliquity and unashamed
betrayal"
In vivid contrast to the attitude of
the major parties. it is set forth that
the Cleveland Conference of Independ-
ents wrote into it's platform. at the
beheSt OF labor, eight pledges, in
cluding the most desirable of the
American Federation of Labor pet
projects. And the candidates the In
dependents nominated, La Toilette
and Wheeler, have throughout their
whole political careers stood stead
fastly in defense of the rights and
interests of wageearners and farm
ers."
In it's work today the executive
council will follow the general course
charted in the report of it's political
committee. 1t will seek to maintain
the non-partisan stand adhered to by
the American Federation of Labor
since 1906.
1T will indorse the candidates.
congressional. gubernatorial, legis-
lative or municipal-of those persons
who have been or promise to be
friendly to labor. whether they be
designated Republicans, Democrats or
independents"
AS the political committee expressed
it:
'Organized labor owes allegiance to
no political party or group. 1t is
partisan to principles. We shall an
alyze the record and attitude of every
aspirant to public Office and shall
give our findings the widest possible
publicity. Labor's enemies and friends
must be clearly known and definitely
indicated"