The Connecticut labor news., 1922-10-27

and the elections which occur in No that stand out so prominently either should be called to them. ator Sutherland is given credit for the appointment of Judge McClintic, ors ordered miners evicted from their tents in which they lived on land | leased from private owners.
 Lodge and Calder Birds of Feather"
 Senator Lodge of Massachusetts has discovered that he has a fight on his hands He is leading member of the reactionary congress and has much to do with shaping legislation to the detriment of Labor and the people. He voted for compulsory la bor and favors the sales tax.
 When the Transportation Act, now known as the Esch- Cummins law, was before the senate, Senator Townsend of Michigan voted in favor of compu1- sion being incorporated as part of the 1 bill He voted to take away the right of seamen to leave their ships when in safe harbor He also voted in favor of the Department of Justice prose cutting farmer and Labor organiza- tions under the Antitrust Act
 Senator Calder of New York runs close second to Senator Frelinghuy- sen of New Jersey in his effort to pile up a 100 per cent record of votes against Labor and the people. He voted for compulsory labor, and against the Americanization bill pro- viding for the education of illiterates He voted in favor of the sales tax so that Wall Street could be exempted | from taxation, which would be made up by placing the burden on the wage earners and their families.
 In Minnesota there is a chance to defeat Senator Kellogg. He also voted in favor of prosecuting Labor and farmers organizations and voted to enforce compulsory labor. He in troduced bill having for its purpose the taking away of the police power and giving it to the federal courts This has proved very distasteful to the voters of Minnesota.
 Senator Poindexter, who voluntar- fly called upon President Gompers and thanked him and the Labor peo- pie of Washington for electing him to the senate in 1916, is also having a bitter struggle for reelection. He introduced bill providing for com pu1sory labor and voted for the sales tax. Former Representative Dill, his opponent, while in congress, had a 100 per cent record on measures of interest to Labor, the farmers and the people,. Senator Poindexter is so much in favor of compulsory labor that he introduced bill in the sen ate providing fines of $500 and i'm prisonment for six months or both for wage earners who ceased work to se- cure advancement in their economic conditions. It also provided that the officers of such organizations should be punished by a fine of $1o,ooo or imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, or both. By trick and device, while only three members of the senate were present, he had the bill passed. A motion by Senator LaFollette to reconsider the passage prevented the bill being sent to the House.
 Some of the Enemies, Some of the
 Friends.
 Among other candidates for United States senator who are looked at ask ance by Labor are Senator T. Cole man DuPont of Delaware, Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, Senator Mo Lean of Connecticut and Representa- tive Mondell of Wyoming.
 The campaign of the wage earners is to bring congress back to the peo- ple To that end the wage earners and all liberty loving people are de- voting their energies to the election of Senator LaFo1lette in Wisconsin, Smith w. Brookhart in Iowa, Lynn J. Frazier in North Dakota, Hiram Johnson in California, John B. Ken drick in Wyoming, Peter J. Gerry in Rhode Island, Royal s. Copeland in Virginia, Kenneth McKellar in Ten nessee, Henry L. Ashurst in Arizona, Andrieus A. Jones in New Mexico and Senator Key Pittman in Nevada. In some states the line is not very closely drawn between the candidates, but wherever possible the wage earn CTS will vote to defeat the most ob- jectionable.
 Apparently the candidates opposed to Labor are basing their claims for votes on the fact that they favor the sales tax. MT. Beveridge declares that business, and ain this he means all men engaged in commercial and fnan cial affairs, should be relieved from taxation. Of course to make up the loss to the government by relieving the well-to-dO from taxation some other method must be adopted to supply the deficiency MT. Beveridge says, speaking with the authority of the administration, that this money can be found in the sales tax, which will be paid every month into the Treasury of the United States by the business men after they have collect ed it from their customers. Leaders of congress abolished the excess prof it's tax and tried to cut down the sur tax to I2N per cent from 6 per cent. There were enough votes, however,