The Connecticut labor press., 1920-05-29
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their attitude towards the questions which affect the welfare of labor; not men who are hope1essly committed to the demands that organized labor will make to an extent of being unable to see any virtue in criticism nor men equally blind in their devotion to the interests of organized capital. Fair men who will look dispassionately upon all ap- peals to their reason and attempt earn estly to find solution of benefit as whole regardless of all other considera- tions. The Connecticut Federation of Labor is wise in deciding not to enter the field of politics as a separate par tisan entity but it's wisdom is only par tial wisdom if 1t seeks to enter politics by the indirect route of undertaking the election of men who can see only its side of an important question. Support ing fair men and confidently resting their case in their hands is political program which must elicit the approval of all right thinking citizens.
 The political situation in the coun- try has reached point where the in dependent voter will decide the issue at the polls next November. As we take 1t, they will be the fair men in the citizenry who will look for the welfare
 
 element in it, political or social. Such a balance of power in the halls of 1egis1a- tion IS capable of tremendous useful ness. That such balance of power can easily be created right here in the state of Connecticut must be admitted, especially in its consideration of reme- dial legislation in which labor Is inter ested The demands of labor are pure ly socal and they become mixed up with party politics only as the political lead CTS undertake to profit by insincerely coddling 1t. It IS entirely possible to find i'll party candidate for legislative office man who in his relation to labor demands is a fair man. It is the kind of a man in whose hands the con- sideration of labor legislation, so called, can be safely left. The dangerous man for labor and society Is the man who promises labor everything and gives nothing.
 After all what Mir. Ornburn and his associates are seeking is what the aver age man and his associates are seeking l a man in public office who breaches l and practices the gospeY or the square | deal. The country IS sick and tired of | partisan wrangling, not because par tisan wrangling is thing that can be l wholly dispensed with in government | by parties, but because just at present | all of our public servants are wranglers | and none of them a constructive leader :; | men who care more for justice than | for party gain. Entirely outside of his l official position in the ranks of organ | ized labor, which no more disqualifes | him for the public service than the political connection of some other men, Patrick OMeara, is fair man and an intelligent student of sound govern ment For that reason we should like to see him nominated for the state l house of representatives or the state l senate, and elected. It is just as much l his right to present the matters he is | interested in and has his convictions | about as it is the right of republican | or democrat to present his views. We | should expect him to be hard but l fair fighter, and that sort of man makes | a first-rate public servant"
 There isn't a person in the state, | working man, union or non-union, busi- | ness man or any other kind of a man, that can but agree with the sentiment | expressed by the Journal-Courier of | Mr. O'Meara. Those who know him | in Labor work and those in business | with whom he has had to deal, respect | him. He is a democrat by persuasion | and the suggestion made by the Jour- might we'll be picked up by the leaders of that party and put | over.