The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-08-14
LABORING men
SEE THE LIGHT
Industrial Court Law Of Kansas sus-
taihed by an Immense
Majority


Topeka, Kan, Aug. 1.-THE Kan
sas industrial court law is going to
have a chance to prove its worth in
the state where t was born. That
was demonstrated last week by the
returns in the primary election when
Gov. Henry J. Allen, sponsor for the
law, received larger majority than
two years ago in spite of the bitterest
fight that has ever been made n
Kansas. Every republican memhel
of the legislature except one who
made his campaign upon platform
of support for the industrial court
was nominated Only one republican
candidate supposed to be opposed to
the law was successful, and this was
woman who had never openly op-
posed the law, but who is the wife Of
a railroad man.
Gov. Allen carried every county IN
Kansas except one, Crawford, the
home of Alexander Howat and the
home of the largest element of for
eign labor in the state. It is the big
coal mining county and The vote is
let1 SCAS u thlS sOA bAAat SezA Nv ASh W
the polls and voted as the leaders d.
rect. In Wyandotte. Shawnee, Sedg-
wick and every other big labor CEN
ter the governor came out with fly
ing colors One member of the leg
islature who voted for the Industrial
court law in Crawford county was
defeated.
TLo -t.+a sar.4e,. f,.ov, tt,.+ a..
trict, who had voted against the law,
was also defeated. and man who
eampaigned entirely upon a platform
of support was nominated In the
Labette county senatorial district a.
member who had consistently fought
the industrial court law in the spec,
ial session last winter was defeated
bx a man who had openly champions
ed it.
The vote demonstrated that Kansas
labor is not unit in opposition to
the court law. Except in Crawford
county, Gov. Allen carried the ma
jority of precincts il which there was
q large labor vote. Even in Topeka,
which has the largest railroad vote
in the state. the governor carried
some precincts in which nearly every
voter is a railroad worker
Organized labor, represented by w.
E. Freeman, president Of the State
Federation of Labor, joined with TIE
Non-Partisan League, represented by
J. o. Stevic, state manager, In an at
tempt to discredit Gov. Allen The
Non-Partisan League-Labo political
combination sent out printed instruc-
tions to every member throughout
the state urging that votes be cast
opposing the governor and every
candidate for the legislature known
to support the industrial court law.
This opposition extended to every
republican congressman because eve
ry Kansas republican member Of
Congress had opposed the Eseh-
Cummings bill. But every man who
was indorsed by the Partisan
/ League-Ilabor combination was de-
feated in the primaries.
Democrats by the thousand went
into the republican primary and
voted the republican ticket. The ma
iority of them voted against Gov. Al
len and the sponsors for the indas-
trial court But a good many demo-
Gratis went into the republican pri-
mary and supported the governor. In
at least 80 precincts IN the state, an
of them strong republican precincts,
the election officials ran out of bal
lots before the day was ended. I'm
der the law twice as many ballots
were printed for each party as that
party cast in the last general election.
Yet with this large number Of bal
lots so many democrats went into the
republican primary that additional
ballots had TO be printed. Gov. Allen
carried some Of these precincts,
which demonstrated that not all the
democrats voted against him. yn
Crawford county, where the social
lists normally cast 300 primary votes,
the total number voted last week was
less than so for the entire county.