The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-31
OREGONIAN SEES
COOLIDGE OUT OF.
LUCK Thru WEST
Noted Reactionary Lets
"Hard-tines" Cat Out
(Hy Federated Press)

WASHINGTON, July S0.-As the
story goes, hard-boiled Senator Stan
field of Oregon, who advertises him
self as the sheep king of the United
States, was telling friend that Cool
idge would have trouble in the West.
won't he carry it," he was asked.
Garry the West? Why, he won't
carry single state beyond the Mis-
sissippi! Everybody out there is
broke. Even in Oregon they're all
broke. 1 have lost 100000 myself
in the past four years.
Stanfield is one of the Coolidge
stalwarts. AS a member Of the Public
Lands Committee which investigated
the naval oil scandals, he defended
Fall and DENLY and Doheny and Sin.
clair to the best of his meager ability,
He was almost as Tory as Jimmy
Wadsworth Of New York. But he
cannot see much hope in the West
this year for his brand Of reaction.
Farm co-operatives to Grow.
One of the dark clouds on the hori,
zon of Stanfield's crowd of Western
magnates in Congress is the co-opera-
tive movement. The deflation scheme
Of 1920 did not smash the co-opera-
tives of the farmers; instead it gave
them new stimulus for growth.
Against the will of the administration,
the farm bloc in Congress forced the
enactment Of a one-lunged measure
for the legalization of cooperative
marketing. The farmers needed and
demanded much more, but they have
used what little was given them to
such advantage that the big grain
companies and the Chicago meat
packers have begun to lose their grip.
Already the five chief grain buying
concerns in Chicago have made deal
with the American Farm Bureau Fed.
GRAFTON for the sale of their properties
to farmers concern, and the meat
packers are said to be getting ready
to unload in the same way. Boosting
the price of grain will not, in the
gloomy opinion of these land barons
cool off the West for Coolidge or dope
it for Davis.
Labor Forced Into Politics.
Injunctions and the Railroad Labor
Board keep on intruding themselves
into the campaign. Elected judges
will not issue anti-labor injunctions
more than once unless they have the
powerful backing of General Dawes
as was the case with two such per
sons in Chicago.
In bulletin on this subject, the Sc
cial Action Department of the Nation
al Catholic Welfare Council says tina
Chief responsibility for labor's NOR
active interest In politics this yea
lies at the doors of injunction judge
and the Railroad Labor Board. IL
junction judges and the board ar
political Office holders. Both Of theI.
join in establishing the wage contract
Both of them have put politics int.
labor. Therefore, labor goes int,
politics"
Coolidge Can't Recall NowI
President Coolidge's bad memory /
actively in eruption once more. H
denies the title, Mobilization Day,
which his War Department formall'
gave to Der Tag of September 12t,
which he now calls the defense ties.
Every press correspondent in WasL
ington knows that War Departmer.
press statements advertising this can
paign scheme proudly called it Mob.
liration Day." both in headlines an
in text When nationwide protes
arose, the name was changed an
Coolidge nervily disclaimed the orr
NAL.