The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-06

Toilette had shown the qualities Labor
 was looking for in a nominee and that
 he was out and out in favor of his
 election and his organization was also
 President OMeara then called for
 speakers on the negative side but there
 was no response. The secretary was
 ordered to proceed to call the roll when
 Delegate Russell, Hartford, Carpenters,
 declared his organization did nor stand
 for such political action. It gave a
 man a right to go to church as he saw
 fit and to the polls the same way. He declared he would not vote for La Fol
 lette, the present incumbent of the
 presidency and he thought he voiced
 the sentiments of the 1,2OO men he rep resented. He denounced Coolidge for
 his attitude toward Labor declaring it showed him the smallest of men,
 Delegate Treat, Bridgeport, declared his organization heartily in favor of La Toilette. He asked if there was any other candidate not endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan except La Toilette who had been denounced by that or ganization as a menace. He condemned
 the denial of the Klan by Dawes and Davis made after La Toilette had bluntly denounced 1t and the imperial wizard had labelled him as an arch enemy of the nation. If for no other reason he would support him for those grounds, he declared. Any other la bor man who didn't do the same was not true to Labor or mankind, he concluded Delegate O'Neil1 arose to address the chair and President O'Meara told him 1t was the negative sides chance How do you know how I'm going to talk?" asked MT. O'Neill but sat down amid general laughter. Later he said he had never before changed his vote from the party he started with but this time he could not see how he could throw down La Toilette and Wheeler and was for them.
 Delegate Ginty, Danbury, also sup ported the resolution, reviewing the attitude of the democratic and repub- hcan conventions towardl the Labor measures offered by the A.. F. of L. The La Toilette party had inserted Labor's every claim in it's platform and 1t was the party to represent the work ingman. The two old parties had out
 lived their usefulness and are now the tools of corporations, he added, and should be erased. He scored Davis as the right hand man of Morgan and Coolidge as besmirched with the scan-A dals unfo1ded at Washington and de clared that whether the La Toilette ticket IS successful or not 1t Is the one he was going to support and urged the delegates to do likewise.
 Delegate McDcnald, Bridgeport C. L. U., said his organization and all its ahiliates were first, last and always for La Toilette and Wheeler Delegate Flanagan, Bridgeport Trolleymen, said | his organization was the same and had 1 formed La Toilette Wheeler club to aid the election. He denounced the l Labor men who called at the White House on Labor Day as not represent ing Labor
 Delegate Beadle, Meriden, also en- dorsed the resolution and Delegate Crosby, Typographical, Hartford, call ed for the previous question. President O'Meara put 1t designating 1t as the La Follette-Whee1er ticket endorse nent resolution at which Delegate Bennett objected demanding 1t be call ed the national ticket so state nominees night be under it. President O'Meara said there was no such ticket in Con 1ecticut and the Federation was rep -esentative of Connecticut people not ,f New York state people where MT. Bennett lived.
 Delegate Chandler raised the point