 He was appointed a member of the advisory council to the United States Secretary of Labor in 1918, and appointed labor advisor and executive of the labor adjustment division for the Emergency Fleet Corporation, United States Shipping Board, during the First World War.The early 1920s was a lonely place to be for a pro labor candidate in what was then a republican dominated region.He was again elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920.