The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-05
LABOR FARES WELL (Continued from Page One

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 this was written yesterday afternoon, without any material change showing after a number of the favorite sons had been eliminated. McAdoo at times boiled a vote of more than 500 and that seemed his top strength. Smith, running up over the 300 mark time and tagaln, Davis lowering around 100 with a few others scattered along the line. Ralston, who is supposed to be the dark horse runner up remained about stationary all through the balloting, his packers, however, being hopeful that when the break came he would poll heavily from both McAdoo and Smith and eventually land the nom ination. There is no safe bet on any thing happening, however, and it be- gins to look as if the convention would go into the third week.
 Either McAdoo or Smith would per haps be acceptable to Labor, the for mer making many friends among Labor leaders and the rank. and file especially on the railroads by his favorable at titude during the war when he was di- rector general of railroads. Smith has always been warm friend of Labor and his progressive actions as gover- nor of New York has also made him many warm friends among Labor men throughout the country. Ralston Is not so strong, although Labor has really nothing against him, but Davis Is de clared impossible from Labor viewpoint.
 Naturally the overshadowing issue is the presidency and Wall street early began to show its hand. Orders were lissued by High Finance to slaughter both McAdoo and Smith by the fight between them and then nominate John w. Davi who it hes personal attorney of J. Pierpont Morgan. It takes 732 votes of the 10o8 to nominate and it is nearly conceded that neither Smith nor McAdoo can poll that many.
 Wall street figured that McAdoo must win early in the game if he was ]: to win at all Every vote diverted from him to a "favorite son" is just that much gained. The moment McAdoo begins to slow up, Davis will be pushed forward, was the plan.
 Governor Smith was not a party to this deal. He is Straight shooter and he is not owned by Big Business , or any other evil influence. Neverthe- , less, he is being used by the Wall street influences. They are not for him or for any of the mob of pro- gressive. and near-progressive candi- , dates.
 Wall street wants Davis and would be happy with Underwood, but he Is out of it. The West Virginia delega- ton, controlled by anti-1abor coal mine owners, Is sponsoring Davis boom. It has been well planned, and Is being lavish1y financed.
 If the Progressive leaders would for get their personal ambitions and agree on common program Wall streets forces could be routed and the party placed in a position to make whining fight.
 At this writing, very little has been done to bring about the coalition sug- gested The Progressives are divided into a dozen camps; the Smith men are doing 80 per cent of the shouting back of the scenes the practical men who represent high finance are pulling the wires for Davis
 With Coolidge On the Republican ticket and Davis on the Democratic the representatives of Big Business car spend the summer on the golf links.
 The Cleveland city council unani- mously voted to donate for the Con- ference for Progressive Political Ac- ton gathering use of the City Auditor iu1n for a nominal charge of $1 per day. The usual rental for conventions is $1 ,OOO per day. The recent national Republican convention was staged in this auditorium. It is therefore pos sible that Senator La Toilette may be nominated for president of the United States i'll the place where his name was jeered three weeks previously.
 Bishop Francis J. Mcconnell of the Methodist church, chairman of the in terchurch commission which investi- gated the steel strike, offered the opening prayer A similar service was performed at subsequent sessions by Archbishop Joseph Schremps of the Cleveland Catholic diocese and Rabbi l Silva Of C1eye1a1d