The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-16
POLITICAL POLICY. IS
ENDORSED BY UNIONS
Congressman Sulzer Reviews
of Labor Legislation in
Congress.
President Gompers Defines Po-
sition of Union Labor and
Urges Action.

The political program Of organized
labor is progressing splendldly. In
the words of Congressman Sulzer in
a speech before the Washington Gen.
trail Labor Union: I'm the ten years
I have been in the House I have
never seen so much accomplished for
the Waste eaN1er as in the past two
weeks. But" he added, ut will not
be enough to secure majority in the
next House Anxious attention must
be paid to the Senate, the graveyard
Of popular legislation" This is time
ly advice.
Activity Is being manifested by the
unions throughout the country. In
Chicago the representatives of sixty
three laoor and reform organizations
met In convention on April and
launched an organization, the Chicago
Progressive alliance.
The plan is to use the direct-nomi-
nation system to place trade unionists
In nomiation. Another reform to be
worked for is a law suspending all
bushes son the day OF primary cleo
ton and the regular election day so
that the working people may fully and
nationally exercise their sovereign
power.
At Washington the Central Labor
Union has voted to send circular
letter to every central labor union
in the country requesting that 1t
lend delegate to represent it be-
for Congress and thus let the law
makers see that labor is in earnest"
The New Work city Central Labor
Council has taken steps to organize
throughout the state to elect labor
men to represent the interests Of the
wage earners.
In line with the above President
ingtoh Times says:
THE question is, how shall abor
use it's potential influence to accom-
plish its desire for legislation that
will procure for us all the small
modicum of justice that we have been
appealing for for years? There is but
one way open to US now, and that
sto make labor's power felt in the
elections. 1t has been said by the
politicians that labor cannot unite:
that before election labor will say
what it is going to do, what candi-
dates 1t will support and make dire
threats against the. party in power,
ETC., but the p>4fticSlns who are. of
that opinion now and try to delude
themselves with the belief that we did
not mean exactly what we said to the
President, Speaker Cannon and Sem
ator Frye about appealing to the
conscience Of the people will find out
their mistake next November II
1T will lnot be necessary, imagine
for labor to place independent candi-
dates in every Congressional district,
because there are many men in Con-
gress who are our friends and are
honest In their efforts to help the
worthy cause Of labor. Such men will
receive our earnest support But in
some very important districts, where
labor casts the majority of votes it is
not at all improbable that we shall
nominate men affiliated with us-men
If ability, and there are many of them
In our ranks.
Labor can do in this country what
it has recently done in England, and
now is the time for us to take our
stand and make ourselves felt. If we
had had twenty or thirty representa-
ttves of labor in the House, do you
suppose we would have met with the
reception accorded US by the Speaker
| and the President when we called tc
present the grievances of labor? Well
I think not. And so it has been made
plain to us that We must appeal t.
the people, and that Is what we viii
do. Labor leaders all over the coun.
try are in earnest, and the rank and
| file have had it put to them in such 4
! manner that they know that there Il
but one thing for US to do to se,
anything, and that is to put only tn,
! friends of labor on guard"