The Connecticut labor news., 1922-10-06
ORGANIZED LABOR PUTS NEW LIFE IN
 ANTI-LODGE FIGHT
Salem Workers Take Lead in Or ganizing League Against Old
 Guard Nominee.

Those who have been shouting that Henry Cabot Lodge had a walk-away | for United States senator in Massa- chusetts were counting their chick ems before they were hatched." There are encouraging indications that there will be a real fight in the old Bay State this fall Organized Labor is responsible for putting life into the antl-Lodge campaign and the Central Labor Union of Salem Is to be given credit for initiating what promises to become statewide movement. Recently the Salem union sent out an appeal to labor organizations throughout the state urging the for nation of a Workers Anti-Lodge League. The responses have been very gratifying.
 In an interview Charles L. Reed, president of the Salem Central La Dor body, said:
 We are confident it will be possible to organize at least 5o,ooo republican voters who will agree to oppose Lodge in order to elect a candidate more favorable to the cause of the producers-the farmers and wage earners.
 ''We are counting on getting most effective support from the women voters, and I am sure we will not be disappointed.
 ''To my mind, in order to defeat Lodge IS Is only necessary to place his record squarely before the voters of the state. He voted repeatedly against woman suffrage. He opposed the election of United States senators by, the people The record shows that in 1919 he insisted that organ izations of farmers, as well as labor unions, should be prosecuted as trusts.
 "We are told that Lodge should be returned because he is one of the most powerful men in public life. But is he?
 "He was able enough, great enough, powerful enough to force the removal from office by executive order of Henry s. Skefington, commissioner of immigration at Boston, but he was not powerful enough to have the steamship Leviathan repaired at the Charlestown, Mass, navy yard. Skef- hngton is a member of organized la bor and one of the most devoted friends the workers ever had. That probably accounts for the fact that Lodge was so determined to get rid of him." The Salem workers are moving along the right lines, and every mem Der of organized labor in Massachu- setts who is interested in getting rid of Lodge should get into the game. The defeat of this kingpin of the reactionaries would be national tri- umph.
 The republican machine of Idaho, led by United States Senator Good ing, is said to be in a conspiracy to retire Senator Borah from public life. The trick Is to be turned by repeal ing the primary law. Borah's term will expire in March, 1925, and the machine believes 1t could defeat him for renomination in hand-picked convention Of course, 1t would have no chance to defeat him in a pri- mary contest.
 Borah will not be caught mapping. It is said he will return to Idaho in the near future and stump the state, asking the people to elect no one ts the legislature who Is opposed to the primary. = He will probably be sue cessful if he can devise some method for consolidating the opposition to the machine.
 The machine leaders are going into the battle with a good deal of conf dence because the opposition is di- vided There are three parties ln Idaho this year-the republican, the democratic and the newly formed progressive. The progressives have selected H. H. Samuels for governor, and he is making an aggressive hght, and his supporters are confident he has an excellent chance to win out In that event the democratic party would come in a poor third.
 It is understood that Borah will uree the democrats and progressives to get together on legislative candi- dates in those districts where the re- publican candidate is an anti-primary man. If this can be brought about the primary will be made the leading issue in the state, and the machine