The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
LABOR LEAGUE
LEADER DENIES
PARTISAN AIMS
Employers Association Has
MisrepreSented Stand,
Manager Says.

Charges that the letters sent to
Indianapolis manufacturers by the
directorate of the Associated En-
ployers Of Indianapolis contained
Misrepresentation" were made to-
day by the executive committee of
the Workers Nonpartisan Political
Action League through its manager,
l.. o. Roger.
I'm q statement issued by the AS
ISOLATED Employers of Indianapolis,
Oct. Is. in behalf of Alfred M.
GloSsbrenner. Republican candidate
for mayor, who is member OF that
organization, the charge is repeated
ly made that the Workers Nonpar-
tiSan Political Action League is en-
gineered by partisan union leaders
in a manner that is at once vicious
and insulting to the intelligence and
independence of thoughtful and
representative working people and
citizens generally" Roger said.
Charges Misrepresentation
an the first place, the charge that
the league is partisan organization
is not even a decent fabrication, but
a positive Misrepresentation, studi-
ously designed to misstate the facts.
The workers organization is oppos-
ing GloSsbrenner on his unmistak-
able record in regard to labor as
explicitly revealed, time and again,
in his house publication, The Shield,
a publication that for years has car
ried his messages and views to any
one who would read It.
ut is q record replete with Gloss
brennerism and reveals his inner
most thoughts and beliefs and so far
as can be determined there has
never been single statement in
that publication that favored labor
1.-THE truth of the matter is, the
Workers Nonpartisan Political Ac-
ton League is an organization, as
its name distinctly implies, which is
not engaged in partisan activities.
There is no party spirit whatever
behind the movement.
In this organization there are
Democrats, Republicans, Socialists
and men of all shades of political
belief. It's one and only purpose is
to accomplish the defeat of Gloss
brenner, because he now is, and for
many years has been, the open and
avowed enemy Of not only organized
labor, but unorganized labor. that
can not be controlled and dominated
and exploited through the agencies
connected.
Believes Workers Inferior
"The record of Glossbrenner re-
veals that he is that kind of an
enemy of labor who believes that a
man or woman who works is an in
ferior and not entitled to respect
and consideration as compared with
men and women who profess to be
in higher social strata.
He is a man who believes that
the employer should have the sole
authority in all matters pertaining
to the relationship between labor
and capital. That the workers
should be menialS and serfs and re-
main silent even when their own
personal interests are at stake.
His whole record, based upon his
published statements and attested
by his every activity, is of bitter hos
tility to honest and Self-respecting
working men and women, and for
this reason, and this reason alone,
the league was organized and is
making the fight against him and
all his works.
ut is Glossbrenner that labor OPP
poses and not because he is a Re
publican, but because of his bitter
opposition and hostility to the en-
tire labor movement. No, there is
no partisanShip in that movement,
except the partisanship, free from
politics. to defeat the election of
GloSsbrenner."