The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-01

FTinted reports on legislation be- fore congress under the heading What Congress Is Doing Or Not Doing" were sent to all colleges, state ing trades councils and the labor press. sE
 March 8, 1922, circular letters were sent to all state federations of labor and City central bosdies-in which 1t was urged that all municipal and state non-partisan political campaign com mittees should become more active than ever. They were advised to hold mass meetings and to confer with farmer and other organizations of iberty-foving people for the pur- pose of acting in harmony in the pri- maries and on election day.
 April 4, 1922, another circular was addressed to all organizations of Ia Dor informing them that 1t was vital to the protection of labor's interest and welfare that a vigorous campaign be conducted to place i'll the national congress and the state legislatures men who, without regard to party afflliation, would serve the dictates of justice and not the autocratic domina- ton of the exploiting interests This was followed by circular being sent to all organizations of labor on May I, 1929, calling attention to the fact that every energy should be used i'll the primaries to nominate members of congress and the state legislatures who believed in progress and even handed justice. Encouraging reports were received from many of these committees.
 On July 2o, 1922, aAspecial circular was sent to nearly 10000 non-partisan political campaign committees out lining what should be done to make the campaign success and in which they were urged to give as wide pub licity as possible to the following principles:
 No freedom loving citizen should vote for any candidate who will not pledge himself to oppose any form of compulsory labor law; <
 No justice loving citizen should vote for any candidate, for any office who will not pledge himself to op- pose injunctions and contempt pro- ceedings as a substitute for trial by jury;
 "No freedom loving citizen should vote for any candidate who will not pledge himself to vote for legislation abolishing child labor"
 Early Tn the year conferences were held with the representatives in Washington of the various farmers organizations. These were very help ful in reaching an understanding as to many of the candidates. During the campaign the committee was re- peatediy asked by the farmers if cer- tain candidates for congress were ac- ceptable to labor as they did not wish to endorse anyone unfriendly to labor or oppose those friendly to labor. A remarkable feature of this question ing as to legislative records showed that in every instance the farmers were supporting or were willing to support the same candidates as labor. The committee feels that this CO., operation will continue to a greater extent in the future. A situation arose i'll Iowa which required your committee to take some action to en- deavor to secure the nomination of some outstanding man for the pri- maries for United States senator from that state. Representative Sweet Of Iowa announced his candidacy Smith w Brookl1art, a man of sterling quail ities, sympathetic to the cause of la bor and justice, announced his cand1- dacy. It was somewhat difficult to make a choice as between the two men running in the primaries by req son of the fact that Representative Sweets labor record was also excel lent But due to the fact that MT.
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