The Connecticut labor press., 1920-10-30
LABOR WILL BE
THERE AT ELECTION
WITH BELLS ON
Participates in This Campaign
With Greater Energy and In
terest Than Ever Before.
LINE ON THE CANDIDATES
Connecticut One of the Most
Wide Awake States in
the Country.

Members of organized labor in
| Connecticut will go to the polls Tues
day prepared to vote for the men they
consider inclined to give labor 1egisla-
| ton justice. The same is true of every
state in the union for all over the coun-
| try the non-partisan movement of the
American Federation of Labor, work
ing through state and town organiza-
tons has Eused strenuous effort to
arouse the rlEmber ship to support their
friends and defeat their enemies.
Through an immense quantity of
literature and by word of mouth the
workers have been supplied with in
| formation concerning the past per-
formances of candidates who have al
ready held Office and who are candi-
dates for reelection; also with such
information as has been obtainable
concerning the standing of candidates
who come before the people without
previous political record.
All this information has been care
fully considered and weighed for the
workingman of today is doing lot of
thinking before he votes and the labor
vote this election will represetn in
dividual judgment to far greater de-
gree than ever before. Politicians who
have relied on the gland hand of cleo
tion time to offset the swift hoof of
after-election days are realizing this
fact. Already some of those who have
most assiduously opposed labor's fair
requests of the past have been rele-
gated to oblivion at the primaries.
As The Connecticut Labor Press has
so insistently maintained throughout
the campaign the labor vote has been
delivered to no party. In the first place
no honest labor leader desires to make
such delivery and in the second place
every intelligent labor leader knows it
can't be done. The party or candidate
teh welfare of the worker will receive
the vote of the labor voter according
to his own decision.
In Connecticut, under the auspices of
the Connecticut Federation of Labor, a
most energetic campaign has been car
ried on to elect the candidates which
the representatives of that organization
consider worthy of labor's support. The
record of candidates who have already
held office have been secured and so far
as possible statements concerning their
stand on measures favored by organized
labor have been got also. This 1nfor-
nation has been disseminated through
mass meetings and other means all over
the state.
Never before has organized labor
taken such an active interest in politics
in Connecticut as abs been manifested
in this campaign and great results are
expected for it at the polls. This has
been manifested almost solely through
the non-partisan movement of the
American Federation of Labor although
the Farmer-Labor party has been active
in Hartford and few other localities.
The members of this party express
themselves as confident of victories for
it but organized labor generally
throughout the state does not expect 1t
to materially advance the cause of la
Dor.
In New Haven, as in other cities, let
ters were sent to the local candidates
asking them to state their stand on labor
legislation. Replies were received from
several, majority of which were con-
sidered favorable. The question of how
the information was to be placed be-
fore the membership of the unions
affiliated was discussed at some length
and motion was made that an offer of
The Connecticut Labor Press to pub
lish them in full be accepted and a suf-
hcient number of additional copies be
secured for complete distribution.
President Ornburn refused to entertain
the motion.