REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT?

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue XXXXXI, 14 June 1920, Page 7

REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT?

LABOR DENOUNCES FORMER'S

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MR BARDING'S .'.NOMINATION.

BY CABIiX—FBKSR ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received June A 4, 10.15 a.m.) s . . OTTAWA, June 13. Amid tremendous applause, . the American Federation of Labor's An,njual Convention, at Montreal, adopted a report condemning the Republican Convention at Chicago for tua-ning its back upon Labor. Mr S. Gompers (president of the Federation.), reading £is report, criticises, sections of the Republican plank. He asserted that the Labor declaration of the Ttepublican platform proposes industrial enslavement and abrogation iff rights. The Executive Council directed that Labor's demarid be submitted in identic «al form to the jDemocratic Convention at San Francisco.

NEW YORK, June 13

Mr Harding, the Republican Presidential nominee, is a newspaper man. .He is editor said owner of the Marion Star, Ohio, and has Scotch descent on ilcis father's side. In 1900 Mr Harding entered the Senate. In 1904-1906, he was elected La'eut.-Governor of Ohio. In the Senate he was a mem--Iher~of the Poreign Relations Committees an<^ was an. earnest supporter of Wilson's administration for the prosecution of the war, but later ■criticised him severely to the end of i;he war. Mr Harding advocated ■prompt peace-making and some legtiaaate co-operation among the nations •of the world, which would lessen, the ■danger of war. He is opposed to <the League of Nations without effective

As soon as Mr Harding's nomina■rfcion was announced about two-thirds iof the -delegates rose up. Hundreds climbed on chairs, and a few women waved damp handkerchiefs in an effort to add a feminine touch to the first -National Convention in which they had participated. However, there was no frenzy. Mo hat smashing, and no parade worthy of mention. In fact, there was so little cheering that a few minutes, after "the nominat:on delegates and spectators :stood listless in the Coliseum.