The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-28
ORGANIZED LABOR HAS
 OPENED POLITICAL FIGHT

Washington, February 27.-(Speciai.)
 The fight. on the part of organized labor
 to elect Congress which will prove sub
 servient to organized labor is actually in progress, Samuel Gompers, president of
 the American Federation of Labor, has is-
 sued instructions to his followers to or-
 ganize throughout the United States, beat
 by beat.
 The battle will be on q non-partisan
 basis. Organized labor has profted from
 the lesson taught by the Anti-Saloon
 League. which in democratic territory
 voted for democrats and in republican
 territory voted with republicans. Organ
 ized labor will be in one section support 8 democratic candidate in order to defeat a republican candidate, and vice versa
 The unions by this style of maneuvering hope to exercise the balance of power in all close districts.
 ! Organized labor comprises 5 per cent of
 the population of the United States This minority deliberately plans to capture the Congressof the United States so that Congress will egislate for organized labor rather than for the general public. It makes admission to that effect. This attitude on the part of the unions is termed by Senator Myers of Montana the greatest menace confronting the American people. He urges the Amer ican people to wake up before it is too late. It is his opinion, formally ex- pressed, that unless the American people do wake up and assert themselves the unions will carry out their programmes. The situation has become doubly inter estif.g on account of the proposed inten- tion of Glenn Plumb, author of the Plumb plan and organizer of the Plumb Plan League, to participate, on the side of the unions in the impending elections. The Plumb plan provided for ownership of all public utilities by the government, by capital and labor, with the provision that Lrofits would be divided between the three, but without the provision that losses would be made good by the three This plan. was regarded by Congress as so revolutionary that no member was bold to the extent of admitting desire to support it. Nevertheless, it's author is insistent that it be put into effect, and that it may be he intends joining Com pers for the election of Congress which will instantly confiscate property of in- dividuals.
 MT. Plumb is apparently hopeful that the President will not veto the railroad bill which the unions command him to do. He declares that if the President does veto the bill as an issue it Will be obscured; whereas if he permits It tD DtCOlHS Ia VI tiio iSseS "AtA ~ alive"
 .'We will then ask the people" hs says,
 eff they are satisfied with the service the railroads are giving them, and whether or not they would prefer the railroads to be operated solely in their interest. Gov ernmental ownership would then be achieved"
 l It is evident that the south. which has been comparatively ire of labor warfares, will be highly developed and organized l by the union political leaders The pres ! ence of a great many negro laborers, members of unions, have initiated against 1 the unions, securing as much strength III the south as elsewhere, it is said. But the indications are that this handicap will be assailedf by the leaders. and that the unions Tn the south hereafter will be made as formidable as they are else where. . It is significant. in this connection, IL is pointed out in Washington. that the executive committee of the American Fed eration of Labor is presently in session at Jacksonville. Since 1911 no important meeting of union labor chieftains has been held south of the Mason-Dixie line until this moment, regarded generally as psychological.
 Al any rate, the battle by minority 1 fer the control of the government Is un- der way