Evening star., 1924-09-01
DAVIS ASKS LABOR
TO LEAD j, s, into
WORLD COUNCILS
Says National Policies Must
Be Made to Conform With
New Conditions.
HITS PROPOSED FEDERAL
EDUCATION Department
Advocates Further Restrictions on
Use of Injunction in Labor
Disputes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
WHEELING. w. Va, September l.
Those who counsel isolation for
America are blind leaders Of the
blind" John w. Davis. the Demo-
cratic presidential nominee. declared
here today in a Labor day address.
Speaking before the Ohio Valley
Trades and Labor Assembly. Mr..
Davis called upon the laboring men
and women of America, "as those
on whom the burdens OF war fall
with most crushing weight, to lead
their fellow countrymen on this great
subject. to make sure that America
takes her rightful place in the coun-
ellis of humanity"
Adoption of the political and COM
mercial policies of the Nation to the
now conditions in the modern world
so as to make the country secure
against war was declared by the
Democratic nominee to be one Of the
three great constructive duties before
the American people" if labor is to
hold the ground that it has gained
in centuries of struggle. He enun-
ciated as the others the preservation
of the equality of opportunity and of
the equality of right.
States His Position.
In his treatment Of the last two
subjects Mr.. Davis declared himself
as follows:
For the strengthening Of the pub
lie school system, but against the
proposed Federal Department of Ed
ucation as an entry "on the fatal
path of a state monopoly OF educa-
ton
For ratification Of the child labor
amendment SO that human greed"
may not again close the door to edu-
cation that has been opened.
Against any trifling with the nat
ural rights of freedom of speech,
freedom of assembly, freedom of
labor. freedom of contract, freedom
of the press and freedom in matters
of religious belief and practice.
Against proposals to curb the pow
er of the courts to protect the weak
against unwise and unjust laws.
For the writing in palmer terms
of the law against the use OF in
junction in labor disputes, II that be
necessary, to make the courts stay
within the limitation already fixed
by act of Congress.
Address Not Political.
At the outset of his address MIR.
Davis said he would not make
political speech.
I'VE meet as Americans on an
American holiday" he said. I'VE can
afford for the moment to forget po-
litical parties and the issues that di-
vide them and speak of things con-
cerning which al, true Americans
should agree"
Reviewing then briefly the strug
giles of labor against the forces of
human greed and avarice" to come to
it's present position, Mr.. Davis said:
IF labor is to hold the ground that
it has gained, which is another way
there are three great con-
structive duties before the American
people.
The first is to preserve equality
Of opportunity and make the Nation
secure against any tendency to harden
into a system of caste. We do not
want men and women in this country
to remain tied to the stations which
their fathers occupied. We wish all
fathers and all mothers to nurse the
hope that their children may lead
happier and broader lives than they
Il themselves have known.
The second duty is to SO arrange
and SO administer our Government
as to preserve equality of right
Whether we are dealing with the
with the railroads, with agriculture,
with industry or what subject soever,
we must make sure that there is no
in our laws. either for
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