The Connecticut labor news., 1922-10-27

In the present political campaign
 vember there are certain candidates as friends or enemies of Labor that
 The American Federation of Labor
 National Non-Partisan Political Cam
 paign Committee has sent the records
 of all members of congress who are
 candidates for reelection to the 4O,-
 GOO trade unions in the respective congressional districts in the United States.
 One of the candidates stands alone
 as being the only member of con
 gress who has 100 per cent record of votes against Labor and the peo- pie. This is Senator Frelinghuysen of New Jersey. His votes on legisla ton in favor of the wage earners showed that he voted against all of
 which a record was kept He voted to prosecute organizations of Labor and the farmers under the Antitrust Act; he voted for compulsory labor; against the Americanization bill for the education of illiterates, and in favor fthe sales tax, which would relieve the rick from taxation and
 place the burden upon those least able to bear 1t.
 In Ohio, the reactionaries have as
 a candidate for senator Representa-
 tive Fess, who believes in govern
 ment by injunction and was so op-
 posed to organizations of Labor and
 the farmers that he moved to strike
 out of an appropriation bill a pro- vision that the Department of Justice
 be prohibited from using it's funds to prosecute organizations of Labor and
 the farmers. He would hold these or
 ganizations illegal conspiracies under
 the antitrust act. He voted in favor
 of a stop watch and bonus system
 in the navy yards and arsenals and
 is in favor of the sales tax. In a
 fore the National Lumber Manufac-
 turers' Association, Mr.. Fess in dis
 cussing the question of taxation said:
 "If we have to increase taxes, we
 should take the sales tax plan." April Io, 1921, on the boor of the House of Representatives he sug-
 gested the passage of a general sales
 tax.
 Beveridge Raises Sales Tax As Big Former Senator Beveridge, a can didate for senator in Indiana, made, the keynote speech at Columbus in opening the Ohio campaign. He laid great stress on the question of tax ation He was especially selected by the administration to declare the party's attitude on questions of vital importance. He evidently confused the difference in meaning between the "peop1e" and the privileged few" as he made them synonymous. He de- clared that the "exploitations of the people should be prevented" and then declared in favor of taking the taxes off the privileged few and in augurating the sales tax, which would place the burden of taxation upon the mass of the people, as they would pay tax on every purchase. The voters of Indiana are not all well-to-do, and they do not all believe that those who depend upon the consuming public for making great fortunes should be permitted to do business without pay ing taxes for the privilege. The
 speech has not made much impression
 either on the Ohio or the Indiana voters. Instead it has started a wave of opposition in the entire nation that is worrying the vested interests.
 In West Virginia, where its own constitution and the constitution of the United States are not allowed to interfere with the repression of the wage-earners Senator Sutherland is engaged in an uphill fight for re-elec- tion Former Representative Nicely, his opponent, is causing Senator Sutherland much concern, as the lib- erty loving people of that state are rallying to the support of Nicely. Sen