Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1920 — LABOR MS HARDING POSITION [ARTICLE]

LABOR MS HARDING POSITION

Candidate’s Letter to Foeny la Received by Workingmen with — Oraat Satisfaction. — j HARDING GIVES LABOR VIEWS Indianapolis, Ind. — (Spacial.) — Frank approval of Senator Harding’s position on labor as outlined in hie letter to James L. Feeny of Washing- ! ton, D. C., former president of a local labor union, has been voiced in labor circles here and elsewhere in the j Mate. The senator’s letter was a re- I ply to one written by Mr. Feeny oengratilating the Republican nominee and urging Me endorsement of the labor. Knows Aspirations of Labor.

“I appreciate all you say concerning the handling of the labor question.” the Harding letter said. “L do wish to make a strong appeal to the dbnfldence of the thinking American wage earner. I want him to know of the concern which the Republican party feels for the American workingman. “I am not only an employer of union labor myself and have always had the cordial support of the nm who work in our printing office but I have boon a wage earner myself and know some of the things about which they think hnd some of the aspirations which they entertain. „ “I want to be able to talk to labor sincerely and appealingly. I think the country needs understanding more than anything else and I think the American workingman needs to understand and be understood. Ready to Hear Labor Side.

"I do not think we can leave the railroad question entirely without consideration; it touches the most Important problem in our present day American life. No one is so deeply concerned with maintained transportation as the great forces which constitute the ranks of American labor. “You can be perfectly confident in saying to your friends that if the Republican ticket succeeds there will bo a chief executive who is ever ready to hear the grievances and to know intimately concerning the problems of the great mass of American wage earners. It is not possible to do all they want, but I mean to do my part In reaching that understanding which I think is essential to the industrial tranquility of the country.’’ Mr. Feeny and Senator Harding campaigned together in 1916 in behalf of Charles Evans Hughes.