The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
SEN. LA TOILETTE TO BE E. 2SED BY LpsM BODY. Exc Council Of
 Fede. ion Hold Action
 To Be Non-P Partisan FEALTY TO PARTY j.
 IS NOT PLEDGED Committee On Major Plat forms To Submit Unan- iInous Report
lBy AssocIated Press. )

ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. E-ln- dorsement of the La Toilette Wheeler andidacies by the Ameri- can Federation ot Labor appeared certain tonight at the close of the first day of the annual session of the federation's executive council.
 Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and chairman of the council, au- thorized an aide to state that he, MT. Gompers, would not lead any opposition to La Toilette and Wheeler that might develop at these sessions.
 Members of the council, while they stood behind Mir. Gompers' declaration of yesterday that the federation would maintain its traditional; non-partisan- ship in the 1924 campaign, declared they could properly indorse La Toilette and Wheeler as long as the indorse- ment was confined to candidates and refrained from pledging feaity to any national political party.
 Report Is Unanimous
 1t was disclosed that the report of the national political campaign com mittee of the American Federation of Labor on major party platforms and presidential and vice presidential can didates would be unanimous and would be the only report submitted to the council
 Another development was state ment by Mir. Gompers commenting on a telegram reported in news dispatches to have been sent his labor leader from Chicago today by Joseph Manly, campaign manager for the workers party, whose presidential nominee is William z. Foster.
 The dispatches said the telegram at l tackled Mir. Gompers as the '.arch-be- tfayer of the working classes" In his 1 statement Mir. Gompers said in part
 (i0hpers Answers Manly
 Foster .and Buthenberg the work ts6sA gSa Ft 6 lyfesid enfi6i alStl tfee lll si. Identlaf nOminee) tried to inderse Sen. ator La Toilette in their St. Paul con lsvention, but the senator f0restalled them by denouncing the whole commu- mist outfits.
 Thus chagrined, Foster and Ruthen- burg, ins control of the machinery set up in the St. Paul convention, betrayed the men and women who went there with honest purposes and convictions, set up dummy candidates who were all most immediately discarded without ceremony and then proceeded to attack Senator La Toilette.
 "WithOut expressing any further opinion, l am sure the senator will be pleased to know that international communism opposes him. For my part. I should consider 1t extremely unfor- tunate for any political leader, or for any bona fide trade union leader or official to have the friendship of those whose first object is the destruction of all our democratic institutions and finally of the republic itself"
 It was learned at the close of tOday's session that had it not been for the de layed arrival of Matthew M, Woll of the Photo Engravers' union, who also is vice president of the council, the report of the political committee would have been submitted today. He arrived this afternoon and presentation of the report is now scheduled for tomorrow.
 Although not member of that com mittee Mir. Woll has participated in its investigations and in drafting it's re- port. He was authority for the state- ment that the report would be unani- mo6s, Labor leaders recalled today that it was Mir. Woll who, when asked dur ing the 1922 session of the council what labor thought of La Toilette as a po- tential president, replied He is the most logical man for that office in the United States today"