The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-08-20
This Campaign
Is Your Fight!
Are You In 1t?

the Farmer-Labor forces in this state.
The American Federation of Labor
is this year waging war on its enc
mics and rewarding its friends. The
Federation is doing very effective
work in the largely populated eastern
states in particular, in sending re-
dictionary congressman and other enc
mics of labor and the farmers to
their political doom.
The following CHEEKY news is from
the American Federation of Labor
Weekly News letter:
Success for the non partisan politi-
cal campaign of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor offers to the Amer
lean people their only opportunity to
rid themselves of congressional reac-
ton. 1t is their only chance to put
progress into Congress.
We have seen what it means to
have reaction enthroned in the Sen
ate and House. We have seen too
much of it.
We have paid the penalty.
We have had the high cost of liv-
ing-we still have it. We have had
the Cummins- -Esch railroad bill-it
is with us today. We have had con-
gressional encouragement of the
methods of Palmer and Burleson. We
have had high and lofty defiance of
the masses of the people, a finished
product of the oligarchical mind if
ever there were one.
We have had too many abuses to
catalog here. Get and read The liter
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national non-partisan political cam
paign committee.
By their records you shall know
them. That is the heart of the non
partisan campaign.
Records count. Promises are nc
good unless there are faithful rec
ords of service back of them. Film
flam is worthless in this fight.
Likewise, we are not looking at
party labels. The workers are or,
ganized to support faithful candi-
dates, regardless of labels.
1t gets no man anything now to
call himself Democrat or Republican
and expect votes for that. It's the
record that turns the scales. It's
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THE RECORD SAY?
Millions of men and women are or
ganized and organizing to work and
vote for honesty and progress in po-
litical life.
They intend to vote on FACTS.
Woe to the candidate who tries to
cover a shady record with bunk and
hokum.
No counterfeit passes this time!
No political movement in American
life has developed more enthusiasm
than labor's great struggle of 1920.
That is because it is an honest
movement of the masses for truth
and justice and democratic progress.
That is why it takes literature by
the millions of pieces to supply the
demand.
That is why bands of four minute
speakers are taking the field every
where.
That is why politicians are worried.
Every American worker has a
stake in this campaign. No Ameri-
can worker can afford to withhold his
share of effort.
Get into the campaign. Get into
the fight 1t is as big in the vii
lage as in the city, as vital to the
country as to the metropolis.
1t is everybody's fight for a gov
ernment that will represent the
American people all the way through.
That kind of a fight is too big and
too good for any worker to stay out
of!
In Washington the united, har-
monious Farmer-Labor party is do
ing what the American Federation of
Labor is doing in the thickly popu-
lated east. The progressive forces
do not intend there shall be another
congress like the present one.