New-York tribune., 1922-02-26
Labor to Take
Active art I'm
Next Election
Compcrs Warns Thai indie
pendent Candidates viii
BE Named to Defeat Men
Held To Be Infr;endIy
Oppose Sex Equality Bill
Hint Thrown Out That OPP
position Might BE Modi-
fed hySuiiablc Legislation

NASHINGTON, Fen. -. Pursuing
the policy instituted in 1920, the Amer
ican Federation Of Labor, through It's
non partisan political campaign com
mittec, VIII enter the Congrcssional
PRIMARIES and elections This fall with
the object of obtaining tho nomination
and election of candidates favorable to
organized labor.
This decision was announced to night
by Samuel Gompers, president of tho
federation, at the conclusion OF the
quarterly meeting Of the federation s
executive council.
"If is purposed TO 70 into tho nri-
mary elections everywhere to make ccr-
tain that candidates favorable to the
rights and interests of the workers are
nominated" said the announcement.
Labor will place such candidates in
the field wherever necessary.
Contests Are Threatened
II. need occasion no surprise IF tboro
arc in many districts candidates placed
in Tho field by labor as a direct result
Of AntagonistIc attitudes on the part
Of candidates in both Republican and
Democratic parties. In the opinion Of
labor, the present political and eco
nomic situation makes Imperative the
most energetic political action"
Mr.. Compers declared the campaign
committee doubtless would be guided
in its work by the issues involved in
the unem Dloyment situation and the
possible methods Of alleyiating which
the government might adopt; in the
use Of court iniunctions in labor dis
putes; IN The elimination Of tax sys-
TENS which "remoVe the burdens from
hc rtr lot
on the shoulders of the poor aud in
the general field OF labor legislation.
In this connection, he declared, Con
grcss was Gin the midst Of an amazing
kind of muddling with tax and tariff
questions, where little regard is had
for the interests of the great masses
OF our people, ana was "no more CON
structive in dealing With transporta-
tion than it has been in other fields"
state labor organizations were said
by Mr.. GOmpers already to be prepar-
ing details Of the campagn and the
standing committee was authorized b.
the executive council to take up and
cooperate in the work.
Opposes Sex Equality
Before conclusion oG its quarterly
session the council also adopted d reso-
luton opposing the National Woman IS
party constitutional amendment. which
would remove all legal inequalities be-
tween men and women. President Com
pers said the step was taken because
Of the danger TO legislation euaran-
tecing working women and minors spe-
cial consideration
President Gompers. in discussing the
issues that doubtless would be taken
into consideration by the campaign
committee, touched upon the recent dis
charge of navy yard workers IN the
general curtailment Of such work re
sutlng from the arms conference
Ten thousand navy yard workers,
the statement said, "havc been thrown
out of work in heartless and unneccs-
sary manner. American farmers have
been thrown into condition borderin &
on The disastrous. This might have
been largely avoided by wise govern
mental action and it may be largely
remedied in like manner. One stcr
which must be taken concerns the wisc
and proper extension Of credit"
Kansas Court Denounced
Denouncing "ef orts to extend the
vicious principlc of slave labor along
Kansas industrial court lines" the
statement asserted that labor is re-
solved TO combat this autocratic de-
vice to the utmost, carrying the fight
TO the doors Of every legislator who
has attached himself to the slave idea .
The statement, in its discussion OF
ansportation, after saying that moth
Ing has been moro completely mis-