The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-17
ELECTION MARKS AN EPOCH; TRADE UNION
 POLICY SUCCEEDS

The people, through Thomas Jeffer- son, smashed the Federalist party with it's sedition law and anti-demo- cratic instincts. Six decades later the people wrote slavery's sentence and smashed the Whig party because lib erty can not compromise with traffic in human beings Eight decades later-November, Io22-the peoples political expression marks the beginning of another era in the nations life. This election differs from all oth- CTS. 1t Is the first time the United States senate lost it's characteristic of being the haven for privilege ~ The people have caused other po- litical upheavals. The policies of oth- but this is the first time privilege has United States senate. k
 In every decade, in every genera ton, the 'old guard" was considered I invulnerable. Before the Civil War it
 was the bulwark of slavery. Follow ing the Civil War the agents for steel, for textiles, for lumber, for the pack ing industry, for coal, for the rail- roads, were known and shamelessly proclaimed.
 Presidents could be defeated and congressman retired to private life, but the senate system continued. In late years agitation against these political agents made some headway, but they could yet stand on, the sen- ate floor and advocate handc1f1ng la i bor to it's task, remove taxes from wealth and urge ship subsidy for the | favored few.
 The recent election has changed 1 this. The American house of lords | no longer exists. The senate has lost | it's characteristic Industrial oligarchs 1 will not control that body when the new congress -convenes.
 Another feature of this election was l its non-partisanship. Men who be- rate organized labor for it's nop-par- tisan attitude are jubilant over the peoples victory, but fail to see that they are celebrating a victory made ! possible by -partisanship. They condemn labor's political ! method, but they used that method
 to record the third significant politi-
 cal upheaval in the nations history. Party labels were nothing to voters
 in this electoin. The power of party discipline was nil Voters picked off the defenders of privilege and elected Dy large mdjOr1t1eS honest men
 who were on the same ticket. Voters refused to obey party man. dates and broke the party spirit l Congressman keller's party organiza- ton condemned him for daring to in7 peach Attorney General Daugherty. The people ignored the politicians and
 re-elected the Minnesota law-maker.
 Then they scratched Senator Kellogg
 on the same ticket and elected Dr.
 Shipstead,
 Voters everywhere adopted this
 non-partisan policy. At no other cleo
 ton was labor so victorious or its
 policy so completely sustained.
 The election proves that if the re-
 cent intensive campaign against
 Daugherty's injunction will be con-
 tinued, or the same agitation against
 child labor or other social wrongs, a
 public opinion can be created that will
 break the back of every opposition.
 No force that reaction can assem-
 ble Is powerful enough to withstand
 d continuous intelligent agitation.
 It's public press, it's distorting econ
 omists, it's subsidized educators, and it's other tinsel and sham are irnpotent
 before a determined citizenship.
 The. lessons of the recent election should encourage every believer in
 social justice to continue the fight for right