The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-09-13
4. f. or I. HEAD
ADVISES WORKERS
TO STUDY RECORDS

Speaking from Cleveland to organ
lied labor throughout the length and
breadth of the United States, Presi-
dent William Green of the American
Federation of TaNar urged labor to
use its vote pow in tia elections this
fall. He went rther He advised
his followers ito 81 sdy the records Of
the candidates before the electorate
in November. He went further than
this.
"All available Information re-
garding candidates and platforms
will be secured by the non-par-
tisan political committee of the
American Federation of Labor
and supplied for the consideration
and information of its members.
Working men and women will be
called upon to join in supporting
their friends and defeating their
enemies
Because there are many legis-
lative matters in which we are
deeply interested, it is of import
ance that working men and wom-
en- give particular attention to
candidates for the congress of
the United States. Let us look
we'll into the record of those who
aspire to represent the people in
congress of the United States.
Especial attention should be given
to candidates for the United
States senate and the house of
representatives"
President Green might have been
more specific, but for reasons of his
own, he was not. He might have told
his followers and associates to study
the records of individual candidates
for office on particular issues-issues
that make for prosperity or depres-
son, for pay envelopes or bread lines,
for steady work or soup kitchens. In
other words, let the workers of the
country give thought to the records
Of the candidates on the issue of the
tariff.
Did they vote for the democratic
Underwood Simmons act of 1918, the
results of which have been summar-
lied by William A. Nealy, president
Of the Massachusetts state branch OF
the American Federation of Labor, as
follows:
at (the Underwood Simmons
act of 1879 reduced the employ
ment of American labor, and it
did not reduce the cost of living,
and the revenue obtained from the
tariff was cut down many mil
lions. That tariff law, which was
signed with so much satisfaction
at the white house, led straight
to the bread line, and to the soup
houses and to the army of the
unemployed, in which from four
to five million of the rank and
file of the country were soon en-
rolled"
Did they vote for or against tn
emergency tariff act of 1921, which
when finally passed, marked the frs
real progress in doing away with tn
after-war depression of 1919 AM
1920?
Did they vote for or against tn
passage of the Fordney- McCumber &C
of 1922, which helped put. the fiv
million men and women idle when j
was passed back to work and unde
which the country has had six year
of the greatest time prosperit
in our history?
And "they" call this prosperity
myth" Who does? The calamit
howlers. The 'long faces" within on
gates who think that because ma
can distinguish monkey-wrench frol
a crow-bar, he has qualified as radi
mechanic, carpenter, a mason, a
expert matchmaker or what hav
you?
Myth is it? With wages stayin
up or going up and prices comm
down? With over 20 million automt
biles running around on rubber tire
and burning gasoline instead of he
air? With more radio sets in OF
homes than the government has y,
been able to count ? With the nations
debt being cut a couple of billions
year, and taxes on small income
down to the vanishing point?
Do these things sound as thong
our prosperity is a myth? Or is
the myth that's the myth?
Study the candidates records, Pres
dent Green advises. And the advic
is good. Study them particularly c
the tariff and let their records be you
guide