The Connecticut labor press., 1920-10-02
VOTE FOR THE LABEL.
Every Dollar Spent Votes for or
 Against Labor.

Political campaigns may come and % with Huctuating fortunes for partici- pants and citizens. Such campaiens arrive only at stated intervals. fn fhe United States we elect a President once III tour years, a Senator once in six years and Congressman once in two years Governors and other state off, cers are elected each year or each two years for the most part.
 Because these elections come at in tervals. it is highly important that we eject the best men and declare for the best politics. The casting of each in dividua1 labor mans vote. therefore becomes extremely vital to him in order that he may not give his political sup port 10 ms economic and political ene- mics. If any wage earner makes mis- take i'll casting his political vote he can not rectlfy 1t until the next election It he helps to send the wrong man to the t Senate ot the United States. he has to endure that mistake for six long years before having a chance to rectify
 Notwithstanding all the care the unlon man may try to exercise in the choice of political candidates he may make mistake in choice. He may he deceived or mis1ed. Office holders have been known to become recreant to the1r campaign promises and pledges or to their previous records. Some candidates when elected have exaeger- ated swelling of the head and imagine they are superior to the people who elected them. Then they ignore the popular wish to carry out their own vagaries.
 When we have voted in political
  zenship Ill certain successful candidates of more or less uncertain outcome. We must do our duty as best we can see it and then hope for the best
 But the campaign of the union label IS always on. There are no intermis- sions. We can vote for the union label every day in the year and as many times day as each of us or each mem Der of our families buy any kind of goods that can be marked with a union label
 When we vote for the union label, by buying some union label article, there Is no element of uncertain out come, on question of a recreant candi- date, no element of a disobedient dol lar. A dollar spent for a union label article goes where 1t is sent It goes directly to give more work and support
  The strength that we give them in buy ing their union label products enables them to give greater support to us and others. Even when buying things that do not have union labels we can apply the same principle of voting to employ union labor. A house does not bear a union label but we do not have to buy or hire 1t If 1t Is built or maintained by | unfair labor. We do not have to pat | ronize any merchant who has a record of unfairness to labor
 If we make such a mistake we can l correct 1t the next day by giving our | patronage to his competitors who are l fair to labor. We do not have to wait one year or six years to let any econ | omic enemy of labor know that we are against him and his unfair interest. ! The idea of supporting our friends and defeating our enemies is expressed | in voting for the union label 365 days i'll year and as many times a day as any of the wage earners' dollars are | spent. There is no possibility of mis- take or error. Every dollar votes for or against labor.
 If it be said that labor man is trait orous to labor if he votes for an enemy of labor on election day once year or once in four years, what shall be said of the union man who every day spends his wages in support of union hating or union crushing empolyers?
 In the latter case he gives hi smoney directly to the support of the enemy. He does it all the time. Every dollar he earns votes to defeat his own cause through defeating his fellow workers in other crafts, and on whose support a large part of his own strength de- | pends.
 When we. vote for political candi- | dates we are voting for other people and trusting to their good faith When we vote for the union label we vote directly for ourselves and we know we | have delivered the goods. It is a great need that every wage earenr and friend | will apply this principle re1igiously in | the present crisis and afterward. It takes so little to tur nthe scale between success and failure of merchant, that l the united vote of labor for the union 1 label would nearly stop the sale of non- | union goods This would irnmeasur- ably increase the strength of organized labor i'll every direction. Chicago ! Chronicle