The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04
Ry Associated Prassl

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. Aug. B. The complete text of the conclusions and recommendation" for the endorse ment of the candidates and platform of Senators La Toilette and Wheeler, as adopted yesterday by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor and made public today, follows
 The executive committee of the American Federation of Labor, na- tionaI non-partisian campaign. com mittee, presented labor's prOsopals to the republican convention.
 The republican convention gave la bor's representatives a brief and curt hearing. The republican platform ignores entirely the injunction issue. It fails to deal with labor's right to organize or the right of the workers even in selfdefense collectively to cease work. That platform sustains the rail road labor board with all that it means in the direction of governmental coercion of wage earners. It fails tC recommend the ratification by tht amendment.
 0utspcAen Enemy
 sThe republican convention nominat ed candidates unacceptable to labor Its candidate for vice president is Ont of the most OutspOken enemies of la bor and is the founder of an organiza' tion dedicated to the task of writing into all political platforms, calling for the ani-uniOn shOp-an organization which Also encouraged and supported the Daugherty injunction against the railroad shOpmen.
 '.LabOr's representatives submitted to the democratic convention proposals identical to those submitted to the re- publican convention. At the convention an extended hearing was granted. The democratic platform pledges that party to legislation to regulate hours and conditions of all labor, a proposal against which the American Federation of Labor has struggled throughout its ! whole history. It is silent as to the injunction. It does not meet the labor board issue. On that point 1t is so eduivocaI that the enemy of labor may well feet that their desires may be met It too fails to recOmmend the ratifica- tion by the states of the child labor constitutional amendment. The demo cratic convention nominated candidates unacceptable to labor.
 By EVasiveness
 'tAs to the candidates and platforms both the republican and the democratic party conventions Haunted the desires of Iabor-the republican convention in an arrogant manner, the democratic convention by evasiveness which is the customary mark of insincerity.
 There remains the candidacy of Robert NJ. La Toilette and Burton K. Wheeler. the first an independent re- publican; the second an independent democrat, running as such.
 The candidates have preferred a platform in which the economic issues of the day are met in a manner more nearly conforming to labOr's proposals than any other platfOFm.
 This platform pledges a remedy for the injunction evil.
 American Federation of Labor teW Tt pledges the right to organize and collectively to cease work
 Tt pledges protection of the rights of free speech, free press, and free as semblage.
 Tt pledges abolition of the railroad labor board.
 Tt pledges a measure to annul the power of the supreme court to declare ! laws permanently unconstitutional.
 Tt declares for direct election oi president and vice president and cleo ton of federal judges.
 It recommends prompt ratification ! by the states of the Child Labor Con ! stitutional amendment.
 ! Tt pledges subsequent federal legis latiOn to protect child life.
 Lacks In Foreign Issues 1 ''On international issues this plat | form does not conform to labor's pro ! posals. but it does more fully than an. other political platform meet labor views in relation to domestic ecOnomi issues.
 We cannot do other than point ou ] this fact, together with the furthe i and perhaps more important fact tha l the candidates, La Toilette and Wheel ! CT. have throughout their whole DO ! Iitical careers. stood steadfast in de | fense of the rights and interests of tn wage earners and the farmers.
 We cannot fail to observe that bot republican and democratic partie | through manipulated control, are in condition of moral bankruptcy whicl | constitutes a menace to the countr, | and it's institutions. Machine politi | cians have brought upon our countr! moral ObIiquity and unashamed betray aL We are judging on the basis of tn condition which exists and this judg ment will be reversed only when tn conditions upon which it is based ar | changed.
 Service to the people is a nobl cause which demands consecration ant the American labor movement demand that there be that .consecration in can didates to whom it gives support.