Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-25

NOfbn carolina ana SOuCn Carolina B
and Virginia s. On the other hand the
Northern and Eastern States, in add
ton to Massachusetts,, have anywhere
from 10 to II such laws.
Comparison Of Wages.
The Massachusetts, scale Of wages
per week Of 48 hours in these textile
mills Is given at $1S, while the high
Southern wage is STATS and the ave.
rage $13.25. The circular adds: THE
union organizer has q hard time Of 1t
among the Southern textile operatives.
Many times he has had to nee to es-
cape rough handling by those sought to
Join up.' Workers in Southern mills
know the boss as q friend"
While Eben s. Draper. wet million
aire Republican, was seeking the sena-
torial nomination against Butler, with
liquor as his chief issue, Butler kept
hammering away at his 48-hour week
for mill operatives and other workers
and kept insisting that what was need
ed was better business and more of 1t
for Massachusetts, instead Of more
liquor. In the end, despite the heavy
wet sentiment in Massachusetts, Butler
won the nomination, though by only
1000 votes margin.
It was noticeable. however, that But
Draper, although the sentiment In those
towns has been quite wet. Furthermore,
Butler had majority Of the vote in
Boston, which has one Of the wetteSt
regulations among the cities Of
America.
It would appear, therefore, that the
Butler campaign for better working con-
ditions and fairer show for the work
ers of. Massachusetts In competition
with the workers in the mills Of other
States has had some effect.
Attack ON Labor Records
Each senatorial candidate Is attack
ing the labor record Of the other, as
an employer Of labor Coolidge goes
further and insists that Buffers record
on labor legislation while he was o
member Of the State Legislature was
bad" to say the least. This Butler
denies and his campaign committee has
produced the record of his votes on
several measures that affected labor.
The Butler campaigners are making
much of the fact that Coolidge, after
he had made fortune out Of his Fitch
burg machine works during the World
War, moved the principal part Of these
works from Fitchburg to Seneca Falls,
N. Y. BY so doing, they say, Mr.. Cool
idge has deprived Massachusetts work.
ers of employment. They point out at
the same time that Mr.. Butler, despite
the depression In the textile business In
this State, has kept his mills In this
State, where he employs thousands OF
workers.
Coolidge, in his speeches, has taken
to asking whether Butler has large In
vestmentS in stocks and bonds OF cor
porations which have their plants OUT
side Of Massachusetts,, apparently
a. lit 20 AfYGmf =
tack made on himself for moving his
plant to Seneca Falls.
Massachusetts,, largely an industrial
State, has o great number OF mill and
factory workers. The campaign waged
by both Butler and Coolidge Is TO win
the votes Of as many Of these workers
as they can.
AS campaigners neither Of the can
didates can be called success. They
are not spellbinders. Mr.. Butler never
has had q reputation as an orator, but
II Mr.. Butler is no shining light as .
speaker, neither Is Marcus Coolidge.
Buffers whole effort Is to appeal to
the worker on the side of better wages
and more Of them, more to eat and
more clothes. Coolidge, while he
evinces the same strong desire to see
that the worker has more work and
more wages, Is also trying to show the
worker that he may have his wine and
beer along with these other benefits II
he viii vote the Democratic ticket.
The wet issue has a strong appeal TO
many of the mill hands and other
workers in this State who are Of for
are found thousands Of English, Ital-
ians, French and Belgians, all Of whom
have been disgruntled over the pro-
hibition laws.
Declares for Repeal.
The Democratic platform, on which
Coolidge Is standing, declares for repeal
of the eighteenth amendment. 1t at
tacks also the Volstead act and pledges
the party to the repeal of the baby
Volstead act" the State enforcement
law. Mr.. Coolidge earlier in the cam
paign was only q II percenter: that Is,
he was willing to bring back beverages
which contained IA per cent of alcohol.
But now he appears to have gone the
whole route and to have accepted the
platform Of his party.
Mr.. Butler early in the primary cam
paign came out for the retention Of the
State enforcement law and for the
eighteenth amendment. The Repub-
lican platform, however, adopted after
Mr.. Butler was nominated in Septem-
Der, undertakes to hold out q little hope
to the Republicans who are wet In
sentiment-many of them In practice.
After declaring for the enforcement of
the laws relating to liquor, the platform
adds that the Republican party of Mas
sachusetts agrees with President Hoover
that persons who do not believe In the
! eighteenth amendment have a perfect
right to seek TO amend the Constitution,
| and that they ARE not subject to criti-
1 cism for asserting that right"
The platform goes further than that;
| II says that the Presidents Law En-
| forcement Commission will enlighten
| the country as to the real facts OF the
| situation and help TO wiser judgment
as to the course that should be fol-
| lowed. And finally the platform says:
And we believe that any mandate
Of the people, when clearly registered
in q manner provided by. law, should be
! carried out"
When It comes to economic ques-
tons, the two senatorial candidates
probably differ little fundamentally
/ They have the same points of view.
| The decision of the workers In this
| election, however, Is likely, to be in
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