The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-10

united labor ticket in the 1925 cleo
lions, as labor group, with labor can
didates and labor program, free and
Independent Of other political parties.
Why an independents Labor Ticket?
The democratic and republican par
ties in recent years have proven them
selves complete tools of the big cor
porations and trusts. In every dis
pute of labor with capital regardless
of whether the administration was re-
publican or democratic--th govern
mental power, national, state and mu-
nicipal, has always been used against
the workers.
The power of the national govern
ment was used to break up the great
steel strike.
The Daugherty injunction was used
to cripple the railway shipments strike
Of 1922.
Only recently the governmental
power was used against the anthra-
cite miners, and the fur workers.
Right now the boss-controlled police
departments are beating the textile
| strikers of Passaic and the garment
workers of New York.
In this state, the state police were
used to slowly cripple the textile
workers of Willimantic.
Back in former years the boss-con-
trolled courts of Connecticut handed
down the infamous Danbury Hatters'
decision
During the shipments strike, Schlei-
fer was convicted, another illustration
of the persecution of militant labor
leaders.
There are scores of other instances
of the use of police and courts against
labor in Connecticut.
During the recent furriers' strike
scab shops operated under police pro
lection in many locations in Connect
cut.
Today scores of scab shops are op
Grating in New Haven, Waterbury, and
other cities, while the international
Ladies' Garment Workers are striking
in New York. Union pickets sent out
by the striking union were arrested
in several cities and ordered to leave
the city
Because of these facts Connecticut
has gained reputation for being .
place where union men are threatened
and scabs are protected.
And during all this time the boss
controlled democratic and republican
parties were in power.
Injunction Menace.
The use of government power EN-.
ployed against labor is further illus
trated by injunctions intended to
cripple labor efforts to win for itself
better conditions of life, by fragrant
violations of the civil liberties of free
speech and free assemblage; by the
defeat Of the child labor amendment;
by shifting the weight of taxation from
the employers to the workers.
All this demonstrates the hostility
of the republican and democratic par
ties to labor. This is particularly i'm
portant in Connecticut where the
large industries are mostly morgan
lied, and where labor will have to
struggle to win better standards of
life. 1t is impossible for the workers
of Connecticut to hope for support
from the republican and democratic
state machines. 1t has become ridicu
lous to attempt to search for friends
of labor" in the old parties, whose
candidates are members of chambers
of commerce, directors Of traction in
terests, railroads, public utilities
banks, insurance companies, and fac
tories. 1t is useless to support polit
ical parties whose policies are con-
trolled by manufacturers associations
and open shoppers. The time has
come when Connecticut labor must
once and for all cut loose the ropes
which have tied it to the old political
parties. The time has come when la
Dor must assume political responsible
tiles of its own and form an indie
pendent political labor ticket with la
Dor candidates and a labor program.
Program Formed.
1t was with these intentions in mind
that the provisional committee called
this convention together and formu.
lated a program upon which it was
hoped that 1t would be possible to