The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-13
PROPAGANDA GETS
 UNDER FULL SWAY
 TO DEFEAT LABOR
Political Program Asserted to Be
 Purely Class Legisla- tion.
HAS BEEN TEMPERED"
Inspired Article in High Class" Weekly Runs Wildly
 Rampant.

Propaganda to discTedit and there fore defeat Organized Labor's non-par- tisan political plan of supporting its friends and defeating its enemies at the polls this fall, has already started and is being spread broadcast throughout the country. In fact, hardly had La bor's program been announced, and cer- tainly before it had gotten very far about the country, the interests opposed to labor were busy with their press agents and befogging claims, as an article published in Leslie's Weekly of February 28, now in the mails and three weeks late due to the recent printers strike in New York, clearly shows.
 Who's Who and What's What for 1920. Organized Labor, Which Asserts That Congress Has Failed to Do Its Duty Intends to Try to Control Both Parties at the Polls and in Congress After the Election It Is signed by one Charles Aubrey Eaton, whoever he may be, and follows within a few pages an adver- tisement by the Weekly itself which calls attention to "the fact" that the ad- vertisers to be found within the issue are all of high ratings in. Duns or Brad strets and that its readers are not only of the elite but "the first 500,00O in the country" and therefore to be respected. The Weekly naively adds that it cost them $2000 to tell its readers that, as that is what the space is worth to ad- vertisers, but it doesn't say anything about what the article about Organized Labor is worth to them for printing.
 After quoting the declaration and political campaign mapped out by the conference of the American Federation of Labor representatives, the article which is accompanied by a cartoon showing two Labor Giants smashing a table in front of the poor public and labelled Is this the kind of arbitration that Labor would consider satisfac- tory?" goes on to say:
 Translated into everyday English this manifesto means that organized la bor believes itself to be unjustly treated by the government and people of the United States. Its condition has become so intolerable that it has decided to en- ter politics i'll its own defense. Stand ing outside of both parties it proposes to control both parties at the polls and in Congress after the election. It will permit the people of the United States to elect only those persons whom it ap- proves. No others need apply for any office from the Presidency down.
 "The logic of all this is perfectly clear. If only those Democratic and Republi- can candidates are elected who can sue cessfully pass the examination set them by organized labor then the new ad- ministration and Congress will represent only organized labor, and we shall have government of labor, for labor and by labor This is a Proletarian Dictator ship with vengeance.
 Against this place the political pro- nouncement of organized labor. There is in this statement absolutely no hint that any issues are up for settlement ex- cept those issues which affect one class the class which works for wages. There is no recognition of the solidar- ity of our national life. It is class program pure and simple. It is worse than that. It is a deliberate attempt to lift an organization above the class it represents and to clothe 1t with a power greater than the power of the Govern ment itself It would place the United States under the control of the Amer ican Federation of Labor It would de- prive the American workingman of his American citizenship and place him under the absolute control of a class dictatorship.
 This announced program is griev- ous blunder. It is wrong in origin,
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