The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10
GOMPERS FLAYS,
 BOTH PARTIES
 IN WILSON NOTE
Leader Resorts To Logic To Show Reason For
 Stand
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 (ByS Associated Press. ]

 Z ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. o. Samuel Gompers today amplified, in re- ply to a second letter from William B. Wilson of the democratic campaign committee at Washington, the reasons why the executive council of the Amer ican Federation of Labor considered John W. Davis undeserving of labor's indorsement as presidential candi- date.
 The Gompers' letter to Wilson of to- day reiterates Mir. Gompers' assertion that Mir. Davis was not responsible for the draft or enactment of the Clayton law.
 Your letter makes reference to the eight-hour law for government em- ployes," said Mir. Gompers. Let me remind you that the law was first passed by republican congress-" The labor leader relates again his version of negotiations which prevented the wartime railway strike and again de- nies that Mir. Davis or the supreme court earned the credit.
 F The Letter.
 Mir. Gompers continues in part Ut was q republican congress with Abra- ham Lincoln as.president that abolished human slavery in America. If the req soning employed in your letter were to be follewed it would logically ensue that Mbor and the people generally must lfDe all time follow the republican party--the party of Coolidge aud Dawes
 "a party which has shown itse.f to be composed of and tied up with the sor- did interests of the mighty few.
 That the democratic party with the martyred Wilson at its head, enacted into law. q fair concept of human rela- tions and American freedom can no more bjnd-us to that organization than the emancipation proclamation could bind us forever to the republican party.
 But the democratic party, recently held it's national convention for the pur- pose of declaring the principles upon which it now stands. Compare the democratic platform of 1912, 1916 and 1920 with the tumble of the 1924 plat form upon which MT. Davis is a can didate.
 "C0nspleuousIy Absent"
 Every principle of freedom and jus tiee which found expression in the plat form of 1912, 1916 and 1920 is con spieuous by its absence from the 1924 platform, which even fails to recom- mend. to the people for ratification the child labor constitutional amendment. The framers' of that platform contented themselves with taking some unction to their souls because a few democrats voted for submission of that amend. ment in the, House of Representatives and the Senate.
 As for international policies, should such good fortune come to the Amer ican people as the election of Robert M. La Toilette to the presidency, have as much confidence in him as in any other candidates for the presidency to grasp the situation in establishing and maintaining international good will"
 Mir. Gompers, in behalf of the ex- ecutive council, also made public the text of telegrams and letters exchanged between him and Mir. Davis since the democratic convention at New York. He made known in addition the con- tents of a telegram inviting him to the notification ceremonies at Clarksburg, W. Va, and his telegram declining to attend.
 Another development today at the annual session of the council here was the refusal of Matthew WoIl, vice pres ident, to retract the councils attack upon the industrial report of the Fed erated Council of Churches of America. He informed the Rev. Felix E. John son of Philadelphia, who came here at the instance of the Council of Churches to request that the A. F. of l., denunciation of the report be withdrawn, that labor's objections to the report "could not be retracted as long as the report stands in its pres. ent language"
 The council elected James Wilson of Cincinnati, president of the Inter national Ratternmakers' League of America, as a vice president of the council to succeed Joseph Valentine, president of the International Moulders' Union of America, who yesterday re- signed because of i'll health.