The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-01
great number and promptly compiled

great nu1nOer ana promptly COnpNcu with. r.
 President Gompers made number of addresses. He attended the Amer leans and spoke h New Jersey and Connecticut. At the same time he held numerous conferences in the cities he visited during the primary and election campaigns and consult ed and advised with the officials of Labor as to candidates He wrote many articles for the American Fed erationist bearing upon the political situation and the necessity of the people to safeguard their interest by being sure to vote only for those who by their past records demonstrated that they would faithfully carry out the wishes of the people. Statepents for the press on political and labor questions were frequently written by him and received wide publicity. The last just before election was entitled The Bugle Call," issued by us, and was printed in great majority of the daily papers, in the entire Labor Press and the American Federation ist.
 The committee believes thar through Labor's influence many vic tories were won. It was feared thar the interiection of third party candi- dates in Minnesota and Washington would defeat the hopes of Labor. In Minnesota Labor supported MT. Shipstead, independent candidate for senator. Although the democrats had a candidate MT. Shipstead was sue cessful over Senator Kellogg. We held a number of conferences and wrote many letters to Minnesota la bor officials in an endeavor to have the situation cleared in that state by the withdrawal of the democratic candidate. The surprising feature of the Minnesota situation IS that the leaders of the democratic organiza- ton desired the withdrawal of the democratic candidate for governor.
 In Washington James A. Duncan was nominated. President Gompers in letter to James A. Duncan, the labor candidate, informed him that his candidacy was apt to draw enough votes away from MT. Dill, the demo- cratic candidate, to permit the cleo ton of MT. Poindexter and suggested that MT. Duncan withdraw. He re- fused to do SO. This correspondence will be printed in the December Fed dlIOUISL hC VotS SASSh 4AAA' AAA1 can, however, was not large enough to re-elect Senator Poindexter. Your committee believes that no individual member of the labor movement should allow himself to be forced in- to a political contest which would re- suit in the election of bitter and re- lentless antagonist to labor.
 The result in Kansas was victory r.. ,L A o4-fara-~o of tatives of all Labor Organizations in Kansas was called by the committee to meet in Emporia, September I8, 1922, to arrange for a campaign that would defeat all candidates in favor of the Kansas court of industrial re- lations' act As a result of that con ference Governor Aliens candidate for governor was defeated by bit ter opponent of the act.
 The election of c. w. P. Hunt as governor of Arizona was also vic tory for Labor. By letters and tele- grams from us we were very helpful in the election of Mr. Hunt The election of MT. Smith as governor of New York was heartily supported by the National Non-Partisan Political Campaign. The elections of J. J. Blaine for governor of Wisconsin, A.. Victor Donahey for governor of Ohio, Fred H. Brown, for governor of New Hampshire, Wm. H, Flynn, for governor of Rhode Island, Will fam. E. Sweet for governor of Col orado and J.. J. Scrugham for gover- ndA of Nevada were also the result of Labor's activities. $
 Early in the campaign the commit tee sent circular letters to all national and international unions requesting that they urge the local unions in New York state to give all the assist ance Within their power to the non partisan campaign Much correspon dence followed and New York was organized effectively to enter the pri- mary and election campaigns.