The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-20
Wide Sweep Of
 Ballot Broom
 Being Planned
Conference for Progress sive Political Action Will Launch Cam paign.

Washington, July 2o-Flushed with successes in the last elections, the Conference for Progressive Political Action, founded only year ago, is laying plans for great political campaign in 1924 which will extend to every state and every congression- to a statement from headquarters here.
 "Of ecourse," the statement said, "conference workers realize the1r campaign in 1922 was only skir- mish and preliminary to- the greater contest that they will wage in the coming presidential year.
 ''In that year meddlers, muddlers and mutts who dance as marionettes to the music of dictatorial corpora tions will be swept out of Congress, the Federal departments and the White House."
 The conference is headed by William H. Johnston, president of the International Association of Ma chinists Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers, IS treasurer. Men and women prominent in the so-called progressive thought" circles of the country are included in the member ship of the national committed. Throughout the statement strikes highly confident note, predicting "the year 1924 will become memor- able as the year when everyday Americans will assert their political independence and take control of ! their own government, without inter ference by, or dictotion from, min ority of class-conscious wealth man ipulators."
 Not only will "the people take a greater responsibility unto them selves and participate in all the af- fairs of public life so that a real reign of law and order will prevail" but it | is the plan "that administrative gov ernment controlled by special privil- ege, manipulators under private li- cense for the personal profit of the
 financial and social 'blocs, must be ended for all time in these United States"
 Experiences gained in 1922 have convinced the most stupid and the most gigoted observer that the work ing people refuse to be party idola- l tors or pawns upon the political
 chessboard of money lords, landlords l and industrial lords," the statement declared
 Taking political stock, it con tinued:
 Largely because of the activity of the C. P. P. A. many undesirable sem defeated last year. Thirteen senator ial candidates were named. "On the other hand, in spite of the 1, aI progressives were elected to the sem ate"
 In the House, while not more amaz- ing, the success was more gratifying, it was said.
 "For the House of Representa- tives I37 new members were defeated, I3 saw the handwriting on the wall and voluntarily quit. Most of. the |hard-boiled partisans who have favor ed pernicious class legislation for the favored few will not trouble the pro ducers of the nation again in the House."
 Much qualification was evidenced that Henry Cabot Lodge, notorious business agent of special privilege from Massachusetts, was barely re- elected"
 No candidate was brought for ward to whom the organization plans to hitch it's political star. Personal ities were not mentioned, except that workers for the Conference Twill bring forward for public recognition men and women from its own ranks -those who have been tested and trusted with the destinies of their associates in economic, educational and fraternal activities" -
 Regarding policies, the Conference