Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-07
LABOR CAMPAIGN 10 CAPTURE CONGRESS-
 IS TO BE LAUNCHED
Bi-Partisan Fight to Begin the Coming
 Fall
MAKE HARD FIGHT ON
 THE UNFRIENDLY ONES
Attempt to Obtain Favorable Gov ernOrs, Judges and Legislators Also to be Made in Each
 State

W eOIt3 CO. Os-bellllJt plans for the first nation wide az gressive political campaign by or ganized labor to control congress ant elect friendly national and state off cials have been made by commit tee of the American Federation o. Labor and will be announced soon The fight, labor officials declared to- day, will be bipartisan and will be launched in the coming presidential campaign.
 Organization details have been for mulated by committee composed ot the executive council and department presidents of the Federation, which has been in session here two days Samuel Gompers, president of the fed eration, said tonight that organiza tion of the movement would be made public tomorrow. The committed formulating plans was appointed by MT. Gompers in accordance with in. structions to the general labor con. ference held here last December 13 to put into effect the declaration o1 principles adopted at that time.
 Representatives in congress whose records show them unfriendly to labor, will be opposed vigorously for re. election, and new candidates hostile to labor's inter- ests will meet the same opposition Every craft affiliated with the fed eration will be called upon to join in the fight it was added, and con gressional districts will be actively canvassed, and an army of organizers will he put in the field. The fedora tion now claims membership of more than four million.
 In addition, the campaign will be carried into state and local primaries and elections and an attempt made to obtain governors, judges and legis- lators we'll disposed toward labor.
 Trainmen Wary.
 Labor leaders explained that while an effort would be made to enlist the support of farmers, no third party movement is considered advisable. No attempt to reach an agreement with national farm organizations will be made, but the appeal will be address ed directly to the workers themselves, it was said. The cooperation of friendly state and local farm organi- zations. however, it is hoped for, par ticularly in North Dakota, Minne- sota and adjoining states where the non-partisan league has gained a hold, and in New York, South Caro- lima and other states having strong farmers organizations.
 Chiefs of the four big railroad bro- therhoods, now in Washington for wage conferences with the director general, shied at any political de- cision when asked today if the rail- road employees were aligned with the federation in the contemplated fight. Warren s. Stone, chief of the Loco motive Engineers, said that he had been too busy with other matters and had talked to no one regarding the projected scheme.
 On the other hand tomorrow's is- sue of "Labor," the official organ of the Plumb Plan league, will have as its leading editorial call to "9O,- OOo.cCO Wage earners and farmers" to organize now to elect their quota of congressman. H. E. Willis, chair min Of the legislative committee of the brotherhoods, and L. E. Shep- pa"d, president of the conductors, a.': members of the editorial board of Labor"
 E. D. Newton of Camden telephon- ed Eldred Newton, Hotel Pines. a relative of his, last night stating that the Morgan broth CTS of Stevens had notified him that the report about the gas well being struck was correct, and that We'll No. 2 at Chidester proba- ply would not be brought in for a few days, according to statement of Eldred Newton last night.