The Washington times., 1921-06-23
.GO|MPERS IS Stone
| |NPATHOF LABOR,
HAPCOOD WRITES
Journalist Sees Workers. Chance
To Control on HiIl' Wane
II Chief 10 Re-eIectsd.
~ NORMAN HAPGooD.

the Federation Of Labor: there 10 q
consideration that should loom larre
In the more thoughtful minds. All
his life, Samuel Gompers has stood
against organized labor becoming
part Of any definite political move
ment.
Mr.. Gompers will not change that
policy now, any more than he win
change any Of the other policies
that have become rooted In his mind.
Nevertheless, II Is . thoroughly bad
policy. and am going to tell the
delegates at Denver . few thugs
that should count . lot In their
decision.
Things up on tho Hin are not the
way they look on the surfscs- AL
factions are still giving the admin
istration every chancA, - IL fair
and right. But trouble II gathering
and II is bound. to break before. long.
When II breaks 1t will fipd greater
cooperation between progressive
Republicans and progressive Demo
crats than any of US have seen be-
fore.
TALK OF THIRD PARTY.
Democrats of the type of Undor-
wood will be found siding on the
underlying Issues with the reg s3iar
Republican organisation on things
that matter most. although keeping
up q battle with them on certain
there is q traditional party policy.
On the other hand, tho Liberal
Democrats and the Liberal Republi-
cans have already laid their plans
to cooperate. They are already
holding informal conferences There
Ia already talk among these ele-
ments of the possibility that real
third party will mAks It's appearance
In time for 1924.
1t cannot be made artinciaIly. II II
is born 1t will be ths child of pre-
vaiIing policies. II will be the nat
ural protest against a series of
measures In which the hand of big
business Is too apparent.
Long ago I predicted that this night
would take it's clearest and most def
mite form In an attempt to shear the
FEDERAL Trade Commission of all of
its powers, a. . preliminary to CIV
ing II little fnal drink to bring its
eternal sleep. Signs that this is true
have become very clear Of late.
BIG FIGHTS COMING.
And othAr signs are equally clear.
American life is 20 strong that few
people realize It's tremendous, despotic ;
power. In the packer ieGis alton now
noirg through Congress there are
pretty little jokers that yhall ceie-
brnte all In good time. The big IN
terests are pulling their wives with
superb skill. hut getting away with
ire political consciousness VIII be an
other story.
IRE lumber night is aircaI " on. The
coal night is already on. There ere
road sit sation that will break within
short time and maze the hair OF
tho more attentive puo.ic initiate the
quills OF the frstful porcupine.
Now the group of twenty or 30
Senators and hundred or so Rap
resentatfves who have been giving
rumblings of discontent on this pro-
gram OF doing everything that big
business wants, either openly or
with . thin camouflase, are in for
fight They are going to be pa
tient, like everybody else. but they
are rolling up their sleeves.
LABoRs CHANCE FOR PARTY.
/ A federation OF labor that was up
to date would see that IL belonged
in a movement like thia IL new
party is to be born In the next three
years out Of the advanced elements
of the two old parties. the fedora
ton ought to be An important part
of it
] The plunderbund Is always on the
Job. A little progress may seem to
De made against II, under Roosevelt,
under Wilson, but IL scarcely feels
the taps 1t receives on its ample
form.
Never was II in better condition
to wage a successful campaign than
now at the end of a great war, with
the public tired and unemployment
widespread.
One reason that all attempts to
form liberal party in this country
have failed Is that the outstanding g
labor organization has hung on to
Gompers' notion that labor did not
have sense enough to organise polit
ically to defend Its interests.
| II he we're sent to a wcll-earned
retirement organized labor might
become an integral part of the move
ment of which the nrst suspicious
rumblings are now heard in Con-