The Connecticut labor news., 1924-04-12
LABOR MAN JOLTS
 DAWES SCHEME AT PARTY CONVENTIONS
"Hell and Maria" Had Open Shop Plans Ready For
 Platforms.

Chicago Typographical Union No. 16, and candidate for delegate to the Re publican national convention has just lifted pair of mst capable feet from the floor and planted the two of them squarely in the middle of the Minute Men of the Constitution. He has jumped all yer Hell'n Maria Dawes pet union hating organization.
 Wise, after getting letter from the Dawes organization asking him his posi- ton on an anti-union. plank in the na- tional platform, promptly fired back an open letter addressed to Secretary C. A. Rogers, IT,, of the Minute Men never meets and is not supposed to do anything until ordered into action by Dawes. It is announced that the or ganization will present anti-union blanks to both party conventions and that fact gives to the Wise letter add also because it is known to express the views of the Illinois State Federation of Labor.
 In his letter to Rogers, Wise said:
 Dear Sir: Acknowledging your let ter of March 18, permit me to say en- phatica1ly and without reservation that if elected as delegate to the Republi- ian national convention I shall make every effort to have included in the party platform blanks that are i'll full harmony with the letter and spirit of the Constitution of the United States, . and shall vote for Hiram w. Johnson for the presidential nomination. I will not accept the personal views and plat form of Mir Charles G. Dawes, chair man of the board of the banking corpor ation known as the Central Trust Com pany, as a substitute for the basic law of the land even though MT. Dawes in- sists that in organizing the so-called Minute Men of the Constitution his former title of General in the quarter masters department of the army should be used and that no reference should be made to his well known financial and political affiliations.
 ''It has been repeatedly stated by MT. Dawes and his associates that the Min ute Men of the Constitution an or ganization, the members of which are not required to pay dues and never to hold meetings The so-called platform or constitution of that very peculiar association was announced by MT. Dawes himself after he had formed a so-called company consisting of ofh- cers and employees of the bank over which he is president and immediately following his conference at Miami, Florida, as announced in the public press with United States Attorney Gen. eral Harry NJ. Daugherty.
 ''Thetn Mr. Dawes proceeded to pro- cure speaking engagements before vari- ous clubs and associations which had a real existence at which he called upon all persons who were willing to support the constitution to arise and remain standing until counted. Following this performance his lieutenants passed out cards which the audience was asked to sign, whereupon MT. Dawes announced that they were then all members of his organization which he styles the Min ute Men of the Constitution
 His so-called platform I repeat, was made public following his sojourn with Attorney General Daugherty in Florida and the words endorsing the announced position of the government with reference to the so-called right to work and right to quit, relate to the official position of the present govern ment or administration in regard to la bor as officially announced by Attorney General Daugherty in his statement be- fore Judge Wilkerson in the Federal Court of this district when he procured the arbitrary injunction against the railroad workers who were then on strike.
 ''The intention of the administration to uphold the open shop was then au- thoriatively stated by MT. Daugherty in that court
 Ut is notorious that the words open shop are used as a cover under which to deny the right of working people to organize for the purpose of promoting their welfare.
 Later Mr. Dawes amended the cir culars through which he had been broad casting his platform by inserting state ment that e really was not promoting an open shop scheme It seems to me significant that you omit his statement on this point when you present his plat orm or private constitution to me for my endorsement. When he offered his explanatory statement, however, MT. Dawes took occasion to attack in an un- scrupulous manner several trade union officials known for heir service and loyal ty to the nation and he did this at a time when these same officials were un-