The Connecticut labor news., 1923-09-08
WHAT LABOR MAY
 EXPECT TO GET
 FROM COOLIDGE
Forces of Big Business Approve of Him Right Off the
 Bat.
LaborS View By HOWARD T COIVTN

As to what labor may expect at the
 hands of the new President may of
 course be very readily determined
 from his attitude in the past As governor of Massachusetts, for i'm
 stance, he used the power of his great office to destroy the union of police
 men of Boston, In addition to this his position upon practically every out
 standing question before the country has been on the side of those inter ested in destroying the organization 1 of the workers and in building up great fortunes through special gov
 eminent grants. And while there is no reason to believe that his acces- sion to the Presidency will in any
 manner change his view in these re- spects, if there were any doubt about 1t his attitude toward Labor might
 easily be judged from the type of the
 men and groups who have been most enthusiastic in their indorsement of him since he so unexpectedly suc- ceeded to the office of chief executive
 of the Republic.
 Among those who have been most
 outspoken in their commendation of
 President Coolidge may be listed those who easily rank first among the labor haters of the country One of the very first to publicly indorse him was Ebert G. Gary, chairman of the board of the United States Steel Cor poration, than whom labor probably has no more bitter enemy in the en- tire world MT. Gary is quoted as saying among other things: "As he IS close student, thoughtful man, fair minded and experienced in mat ter of government, we need have no fear of his failure to give satisfaction to the whole people" The man who to a man of the Gary type would hardly be considered satisfactory to the great laboring masses of the na- tion. Another man, no less of an enemy to labor than Gary, who has heartily indorsed the new President Is Robert s. Lovett, of the Union Pacific Railway company MT. Iovett is quoted as declaring that "The coun- try is extremely fortunate in having such discriminating, level-headed
 man as MT. Coolidge, who stepped in to- the great office in such an emer- Igency" C. w. Barron, owner of the Wall Street Journal, the most promi- nent financial daily in the country and a paper that invariably voices the
 sentiments of the Wall Street oper- ators, declares:
 "No man is better fitted or better equipped to lead the United States in Tits present commanding position be- fore the whole world"
 Coolidge is known throughout the world for law and order and stands for the best that has built up the United States"
 Calvin Coolidge will be a success o,1 h ho ated and~triumphfully elected next Iyear."
 The business interests of the coun- | try will go up behind him as they went up behind Harding"
 In addition to these inducements from the industrial, railroad, and banking world, practically every re- actionary newspaper in the land has lent its indorsement to the new Presi- dent This has been so, regardless of political parties. The Republican Philadelphia Ledger vies with the Democratic New York Times in its championship of the new occupant of the office of chief executive of the na- ton. Even democratic papers in the South, papers of the reactionary type, such as the Richmond Times-Dis- patch, the Louisville Courier Journal, and the New Orleans Picayune un- qualifedly give their approval. And so it is throughout the country, North
 and South, East and West, we find
 the subsidized pres voicing the ap- proval of it's masters of the accession
 to the presidency of Calvin Coolidge. And what has been true of the press
 and of individuals in the world of in
 dustry has been no less true of groups of leaders in industry The latest of
 the latter to commend him is the Association of Railway Executives It is useless to comment further. A man so satisfactory to the leaders of big business could hardly be ex- pected to be very satisfactory to the people in general Certainly labor need not expect much from Calvin Coolidge, other than the use of the | in inn ction and the military