The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-04-15
Reward Your Friends and Ad-
minister q Singing Rebuke
to Our Enemies"
LABOR s SLOGAN HAS -
=, BORNE ABUNDANT FRUIT
National House Of Representa-:
tives Contain Fifteen Trades {:
: -. Union Members. i. =,

WASHINGTON, April Sin 1906
the Labor Representation committee
of the American Federation of Labor
decided to aggressively take the field
against the reelection of certain con-
gressmen who had been conspicuous
in their antagonism toward all labor
bills introduced in congress. Con-
gresham Littlefield of the second
district of Maine, than whom there
had been no more savage enemy of
labor, courted a battle in the political
campaign of four years ago:
President Gompers, together with
two or three organizers and similar
number of international officials, en-
tered the Littlefield district and made
a memorable struggle to impress up
on the citizens Of that district the
desirability of permitting the belliger-
ent congressman to remain at home.
Mr.. Littlefield, however. was reelected
by a greatly reduced majority. This
entrance of labor into the political
arena and it's spectacular and heroic
fight against such gigantic odds in
the state of Maine subsequently crys-
tallized into action, in various parts
of the country, a determination on
the part of trade unionists to fol-
low the lead of the American Fedora
tion of Labor
The first campaign of the trade
unionists, that of 1906, secured the
election of six congressman with &C
tive membership in the trade unions:
Wilson of Pennsylvania, Nichols Of
PENNSYLVANIA, Sherwood of Ohio,
Hughes of New Jersey, =McDermott Of
Illinois, Carey of Wisconsin,. = T. q.
: In the elections of 1908 the above
were all reelected. and in addition the
|. l.folioW1ng cared men were added TO
the labor crop: s'S ~ X, -.,x
+ Anderson of Ohio,7 Murphy OF: Mis-
souri,, Martin of Colorado, Jameson
of Iowa. 1.s-
A steady growth in numerical
l,strength of labor members in congress
| is shown. In 1906 six trades union
| lists were elected. The fall of 1870;
saw our lead increased by the ad-
dition of four more trades unionists,
making then in ALL The congression-
al elections of 1910 still further in
| creased our numerical strength by so
per CCHI, IuSAC OCAI16 A4AkCCAA AAOAA-
| bers of congress actively affiliated with
the trades unions, as follows:
w. B. Wilson, coal miner, Bloss-
| burg, Pa, Democrat; Richard E. Lee,
| blacksmith, Pottsville, Pa, Democrat;
John A. Martin, locomotive fireman.
Pueblo, Colo, Democrat; VIM. J..
! Cary, commercial telegrapher, Mil
| waukee, Wis, Republican,; Victor l..
Berger, Typographical union, Milwau-
| kee, Wis, Socialist; VIM. Hughes,
! Textile Workers, Patterson, N. j., De-
! workersmocrat; Frank Buchanan, Str.
| iron worker, Chicago, ILL.,: Democrat;
| Jas. T. McDermont, commercial tele-
grapher, Chicago ILL.,. Democrat; J.
! David Lewis, coal miner, Cumber-
land, Md, Democrat; Cllas. B. Smith,
railroad telegrapher, Buffalo, N. Y,
Democrat; Carl c.. Anderson. musi-
clan, Fostoria, Ohio, Democrat; Isaac
r. Sherwood, Typographical union,
| Toledo, Ohio, Democrat; E. E. Ro-
| berts, metal miner, Carson City, New,
| Republican; John r. Farr, Typogra-
phical union, Scranton, Pa. Republic
can; James P. Maher, halter, Brook
| lyn, IN. Y, Democrat.