Evening star., 1936-10-18
:Af.L.PUb[|SHES
ELECTION SURVEY
uuadrennial Report Fails to
'lndorse Either Roosevelt
or Landon.

{ The ouadrennial report Of the
| American Federation of Labor on the
, major presidential tickets last nighC
; was on its way to all State feaerations
. and the nearly 10000 national ana
> local unions for distribution in every
b. congressional district
f. Issued yesterday by committee
; headed by William Green, president
of the A. F. of L.. the report, as Is
customary, Endorsed neither President
Roosevelt nor Gov. ALI NJ. Landon,
ssbut Green. who is supporting Mr..
: Roosevelt, said any working man who
s. reads 1t should know for whom to
= vote.
= TO the ranks of labor 1t carried
this admonitiCn:
Stand faithfully by our friends
. and elect them. Oppose our enemies
end defeat them"
AS the report went out. George l.
Berry, president of Labor's Non-Partl-
; san League, which is campaigning for
, the Democratic ticket, said SO State
federations of labor and 90 interna-
tional unions have lined up behind
Roosevelt, but that no State body
has indorsed Landon. The issue,
Berry said, is between liberalism and
reaction, and the Republican DR..
Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde act hasn't fooled
any one"
Lewis Fsvors Resolution.
From John L. Lewis, president Of
the United Mine Workers. came o.
declaration that organized labor is
almost unanimously" behind the
President for reelection. In a broad
cast sponsored by the Labor League,
he attacked Gov. Landon and said In
-terests supporting him have plans
equivalent to the setting up of a
Fascist State"
They would place in the seat Of
power a ouavering, quaggy dummy"
Lewis asserted,
The A. F. Of L. report, first giving
q resume of the planks proposed by
federation spokesmen to the party
platform committees. listed, side by
side. the planks of interest to labor
which we're adopted. This showed
both major parties we're silent on II
of the 20 subjects on which expression
was sought, including anti-injunction
legislation, immigration and techno-
logical unemployment.
n. r. A.. Guffey Act Avoided.
The review of the Roosevelt record
went back to his service in the New
York legislature beginning in 1911,
and closed with the list Of New Deal
enactments approved by the feder-
alton, including the relief and public
works appropriations, bank deposit In
surance, T. V. A., railroad retirement
and the Wagner labor disputes act.
No mention was made Of the invali-
dated N. r. A. or Guffey coal act,
both Of which the federation sup
ported.
Six Of the 30 pages were devoted to
quotations from Gov. Landon's mes
sases to the Kansas Legislature and
; his address accepting the presidential
nomination. These included recon-
lamentations for relief taxes. efforts to
ameliorate working conditions, ratifl-
cation Of the child labor amendment
an hCb dLlu
ment of the State constitution to en-
'able cooperation with the Federal
social security act.
The labor section of Landon's ac-
ceptance address was printed In black
face type. as was his subsequent elab-
Grafton of his position that labor
should have the right to organize
free from interference from any
source"
Reviewing Vice President Gamers
record, the report said he was favor
eble to labor in II instances and un-
favorable In 18 during his service in
the House from 1908 through 1882.
No record was given for Col Frank
Knox. Republican vice presidential
nominee, who has never seen legis-
Iative service.
With Green on the committee were
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
federation; Matthew Woll, vice presi-
dent of the lithographers: Thomas A.
Rickers. president Of the United Gar
ment Workers; G. NJ. Busniazet. vice
president of the electrical workers.
and Felix H. knight. president Of
the Street Car Employees Union.