The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-01

l At a meeting of the New York 1 State Federation of Labor President
 Gompers mentioned former Governor Smith as the next governor of New 1 York. The sentiment expressed in | that convention set the state afame
 for Smith. The enormous majority
 he received demonstrates conclusive 1 ly that he had the solid support of l Labor and the forward looking citi- zenship.'
 The election of J. C. Walton as l victory for the wage earners. They
 had joined with the farmers and
 made an excellent campaign for the 1 progressive candidate for governor 1 The reelection of Governor Blaine in Wisconsin was the result of his pro l gressive administration. He was heartily supported by Labor.
 Among the pleasant surprises of the 1 campaign were the many requests | made before and after the primary pelection by members of the United l States Senate and House of Repre- sentatives for their legislative records on measures of interest to Labor. The committee was very active in ! the primary campaign which resulted
 in the defeat of a number of ant1-la- bor members of congress. Among l them were Senators New and Mo Cunber and Representatives Camp
 bell and Copley. It was believed that l the greater the agitation for accept able candidates in the primaries the | more interest would there be in the elections. While the newspapers were daily printing statements that there seemed to be no interest being taken in the campaign in the various states, the correspondence received l by the committee proved otherwise. l Much attention was given to the de i termination of the politicians to de
 stroy the direct primary system in l some of the states. Organizers were sent into Idaho to help the defeating plan to destroy the direct primary. This question was called to the dt- tention of the labor organizations in
 all states President Gompers also wrote a letter to Senator Borah which
 was used in the campaign. It is now | said that the abolishment of the direct primaries for state officials helped to l defeat both Governor Miller and Sem ator Calder, and helped in the cleo
 ton of Governor Smith and Dr. Cope
 land The people are aroused in the primaries and have more interest in
 the election. Early in the year the publicity bureau of the national re- publican party began criticising, the American Federation of Labor gener-
 ally. Undoubtedly it was believed ] that the propaganda spread against
 Labor since the armistice had been so effective that any attack on Labor would discredit those whom Labor supported. Instead, the propaganda aroused the wage earners to the dangers of re-e1ecting the present l members of Congress.
 Some confusion was. caused by the distribution of legislative records of | members of Congress that appeared to be sent out in the interest of or ganized Labor. However, these rec ords were not intended to, apply to strictly labor questions but ito issues which were said to affect the whole people The influence of the Amer ican Labor movement @was SO eHec- tive that misunderstanding were soon eliminated.
 While it is known that many friends of Labor were elected mem
 bers of the House of Representatives until the official reports are received
 list, cannot be prepared
 Among the successful candidates