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tabor Stints
Its Support
Of Democrats
platform Marks Measure
?f Progress Not Found in
Republican Party D?eclar
ations, Says Statement
Hits Injunction Stand
A. F. L. Heads Also Criti
ci.ie the Failure to Urge
Immigration Regulation
?-HM TJ?i Tribune's Washington Bureen
WASHINGTON, July 14.?The sup?
port of Samuel Gompers and other
i-aaders of organized labor will be given
to the Democratic party this year, it is
indicated in a statement issued to-day?
b? heads of the American Federation
of Labor. The Democratic platform,
the statement says, "marks a measure
of progress not found in the platform
of the Republican party."
Th>? statement, which was signed by
Mr Gompers and Vice-Presidents
Joseph Valentine. William Green and
Matthew Woll. does not whole-heartedly
indorse the Democratic platform, but
it declares that the Democratic plat?
form more nearly egresses the de?
mands of organized labor than does the
Republican platform.
Gompers, Valentine, Green and Woll
constituted a committee that presented
the plat form demands of the American
Federation of Labor to both the Chi?
cago and San Francisco conventions.
In their statement they compare the
planks demanded by the Federation
?jrith those adopted by the Democrats
snd conclude their review of the con?
cessions of the Democratic platform
builders to their demands, as follows:
See Hope in Democratic Plank
"In summarizing it is but fair to say
that the Democratic platform marks a
measure of progress not found in the
platform' of the Republican party. In
relation to labor's proposals the planks
written into the Democratic platform
more nearly approximate the desired
declarations of human rights than do
?he planks found in the Republican
platform.
"The delegation of the American
Federation of Labor, which appeared
before the platform committee of the
Republican party convention in Chi
rago, -resented to the convention of the
American Federation of Labor wi Mont- j
t the labor proposals which it sub-i
raitted, and analyzed and compared j
these with the declarations contained |
in the Republican party platform. The l
convention by unanimous vote adopted
&nd approved that report. The conven?
tion authorized and directed a com?
mittee to appear before the Democratic
national platform committee at San !
Francisco and to present the identical
propo.-als to that committee, with in?
structions that a comparison nntl analy?
ses should be made with the proposals
and the declaration of the Democratic
party.
Not Partisan to Any Party
"The men ajad women of labor of the
Un-.ted States and her liberty-loving
people must judge between the declara?
tions of these parties. The impending
campaign and election for President
tiid Vice-President, United States Sena?
tors ard members of the House, of Rep
resentatives is upon us and the citizen?
ship of oui country must determine its
cwn course in electing these candidatos
1er these officer- who are mo-t friendly
?Msposed toward labor, justice, freedom,
democracy and humanity, and to defeat
those who are less friendly or more
hostile to these principles.
"Labor of America is not partisan to
any political party; j? is partisan to
principles, the principles of justice and
freedom. It undertakes neither to dic?
tate nor control the choice of the
workers or ? the citizenship generally
for which partv or candidates they
should vote, but it would be palpable
dereliction of duty did we fall to place
the facts before the voters of our
. country upon the records of both par?
ties and their respective candidates for
public office."
The American Federation of Labor
demanded a plank indorsing the right
to bargain collectively. The Demo?
cratic platform indorsed, the right of
both capital and labor to organize,
1) rgain collectively and speak "through
? pri ;ntatives of their own choosing."
' this plank the American Fedcra
'-?-.?'. of Lr.bor heads do not comment.
Criticizes Injunction Stand
?"ht statement criticizes the Domo
for not condemning the use of
miu?ctions to prevent strikes, but it
ont nues:
"While the language of the platform
t n? .tutes an indorsement of the labor
1 ' v ions of the' Clayton act, there is
ecifie ?jondemnation of the abuse
writ of injunction in labor dis
-'' However, failure of the plat
? m to indorse the injunctions secured
". h the efforts of Attorney Gen
'< .V. Palm?? in the miners' ease may
fairly bo assumed to constitute re?
pudiation of that action."
Commenting on the declaration of
the Democrats against compulsory
arbitration and declaring for strike
legislation that would be fair to labor
! '-'J employers, the statement says:
"The platform provisions here set
forth are specific in condemnation of
compulsory arbitration in disputes In
privately owned industry. There is a
' gueness in the balance of the first
two paragraphs. There is uncertainty
" what the platform means to con
"ey ?n its reference to the obligation
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of the worker? to the state and the
proposai to find a substitute for the
right of the workers to cease work
when cessation of work is said to en?
danger the lives or health of the peo?
ple.
Condemn Am?ricanisation Attitude
"With regard to employees in gov?
ernment service, it will be noted that
the platform declaration in response
to the first of labor's demand? sets
forth the unqualified right to organi?
sation, collective bargaining and repre?
sentation. The final paragraph of the
declaration last auoted, however, im?
plies methods in the settlement of dis?
putes in government employment which
cannot be approved as a general state?
ment of government policy."
The Federation heads criticize the
Democrats for failing to pledge vigor?
ous enforcement of the Seamen's act
and for calling for publication of costs
of production on farms only, without
calling for publication of costs oi
manufactured articles and costs causee
by middlemen in the cost of living
plank. *
The Democrats are criticised fur
ther for failing to adopt planks for th?
Americanization of immigrants and foi
regulation of immigration. Attentiot
also is called to the fact that th?
Democratic platform is silent on th?
demand of labor for a plank declarini
?.for the exclusion from interstate com
merce of the products of convict labor
Reed Attacks
Co venant, but
Supports Cox
Holds Declaration of Inde?
pendence Superior to
Democratic Platform in
?Opening Stqte Campaign
Bankers
Links Wilson and
Says Demagogues Infest Na?
tion, Indorsing All a
Popular President Does
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., July 14.?Reiter?
ating his opposition to the covenant of
the League of Nations as it is now
f-ramed, Senator James A. Reed, of
Missouri, addressed a meeting here to-,
night, opening the Democratic cam?
paign in Missouri.
"I intend to support the Democratic
candidates," Senator Reed asserted,
"notwithstanding the declarations of
the party upon the League of Nations,
because the great principles of the
Democratic party which have survived
the vicissitudes of the century still
live.
"Upon the League of Nations the
platform of neither party suits me, but
there is something greater than the
platform of a political convention. It
is the platform of Americanism. That
platform was proclaimed in the Dec?
laration of Independence."
One of the principles which he as?
serted was one of "the very cardinal
principles of Democratic faith," is
"that thisxgovernment should consti?
tute the leading, power op this side of
the Atlantic, shielding and protecting
against foreign aggression the weaker
countries of the Wer/?rn Hemisphere,
and that it should forever keep itself
free of entanglements with European
and Asiatic powers, refusing to take
part in their wars, controversies or in?
trigues, except where our interests
were directly concerned."
"It is unfortunate that the country is
infested with d?magogues," the Senator
added.'
"The demagogue is a political prof?
iteer. To gain office he advocates any
doctrine, subscribes to any creed and
utters any falsehood. If he lived under
a monarchy he would assert, 'The king
can do no wrong.' In a republic he de?
clares that he favors 'all ja popular
President has done,' and swears he will j
support everything he may ever do.
The world is full of such creatures.
They are the curse of the world. They
have done much to confuse the public
mind."
Explains Senators' Actions
Senator Reed reviewed the history of
the treaty negotiations, saying that "if
there had been no interference by the
Executive Department there would not
have been three Senators who would
not have voted radically to amend the
treaty.
? ? uiso unhesitatingly ,tate," Senator
Reed declared, "that if it had not been
for nn immense propaganda financed by
international bankers, plus the influ?
ence of the White House, there would
not have been a half dozen Senators
who would have voted for the League
of Nations in any form."
Even the Democratic platform, the
Senator added, recognized that reserva?
tions or amendments are necessary.
Editor to Testify for
Means in Will Contest
John R. Rathom to Depose He
Saw Second King Document
Late in 1915
CHICAGO, July 14.?John R. Rathom,
editor of ?'The Providence (R. I.) Jour?
nal," will be an important witness for
Mrs. Mary C. Melvin, who, with the
aid of Gaston Means, is. fighting to
prove the validity of the alleged second
will of Jamea C. King, most of whose
$6,000,000 estate will become Mrs. Mel
vin's property if the will is held
genuine. Mr. Rathom will make a
deposition that Mean? showed him the
contested will in October or November,
1915. A
"Means showed the will to Rathom
in 1915," Mrs. Melvin's attorneys de?
clared, "and asked Mr. Rathom to have
it photographed because he wanted to
send photographs to typewriter manu?
facturers to determine what typewriter
was used in writing the will.
"The investigation was to prove the
genuineness of the will."
Means to-day told of having the will
photographed in "The Providence Jour?
nal" office. Previously he had testi?
fied the photographing was done in the
New York office of a detective agency.
Means said he now remembered that
"the detective agency photography ma?
chine was out of order," so ne took
the will to Providence."
.?
Italian Arrives With
Plans for New Biplane
Lient. Sabelli, ?One of 1,955
Aboard Giuseppe Verdi, Will
?Confer Wih Aero ?Club
The Giuseppe Verdi, of the Trans
H.tlantica Italiana line, docked iate yes?
terday afternoon after being held sev?
eral hours in quarantine. There were
on board 305 cabin passengers and 1,650
steerage.
Lieutenant Cesere Sabelli, of the
Italian Caccia Air Squadron, one of the
passengers, brought with him plans for
a biplane which, he said, can make 280
kilometers an hour, which, he said, is
sixty kilometers more than any other
plane ?has ever made. The plane is
especially adaptable for carrying mail.
He will discuss the project with mem?
bers of the Aero Club.
Dr. A. T. Webb, who has been den?
tist to the Royal Italian family in
Rome, also arrived to spend his vaca?
tion. v?
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Brooklyn Counterfeiter
Sentenced to Five Years
BOSTON, July 14.?George R. Her
mans, of Brooklyn, waa sentenced in
the Federal court to-day to five years
in the Atlanta prisoner having eoan
terfeit money'in his possession and
passing it.' Hermans was arrested in
Lowell by Federal officers, who had
trailed him from Springfield, where he
passed six bogas bills.
The officers seized $12,000 in twenty
and fifty-dollar bills, all of which were
counterfeits. Hermans was wounded
during the war while serving as a
wireless operator with the Belgian
army.
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