Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-25
c. O.P. INSURGENTS
HIT MATTHEW VOL
Labor Leader Charged With
Campaign to Weaken In
fluenCe of La Toilette.
BY WILLIAM HARD.

Matthew Vol, vice president of the
American Federation of Labor and
chairman of Americas Wage Farmers
Protective Conference, famed for his
high-tarif influence in the course of the
enactment of the present tariff law,
and still more famed for his recent
efforts to exclude from the United States
virtually all products of Soviet Russia,
Is now charged by Northwestern Insur-
gent Republican elements with having
undertaken to defeat Philip La Toilette
for the Republican nominal ton for Gov
ernor in Wisconsin.
This is called move toward weaken
ing and destroying the titular crown
prince of all Northwestern insurgency,
Senator Robert Marion La Toilette the
younger, who gave to the present tariff
law in the Senate on roll call an en-
phatic may"
Hit RawIeigh Record.
The charge arises out of articles cir
culated through the trade union press
Of the United States by the Interna-
tioEal Labor News Service, of which
Vol is president, attacking the labor
record of w. T. Rawleigh, prominent
manufacturer and tariff reformer of
Freeport, ILL.,, who was the principal
campaign contributor to the presiden-
tial endeavors of the senior Senator La
Toilette in 1924 and who has been con-
tinuously financial mlainstay of La
Follettes political and legislative activi-
ties. These articles in criticism of
Rawleigh have accused him of main
tanning anti-union open-sl1op conditions
in his vast plant at Freeport and in eff
feet have classified him as an enemy to
labor" with the implication that cam
didates to whom he gives his support
would properly fall under labor suspi-
cion That implication is strenuously
resented by La Toilette advocates who
heartily assail Vol and his associates
in the American Federation of Labor
as traitors to the progressive labor
cause.
The La Folletteites stand BY Rawleiel
strongly. Their Madison, Wis, pub
lication, called the Progressive, which
has succeeded to the ownership and
circulation of La Follettes Magazine
calls Rawle1gh public benefactor''
and gives him amply earned credit
Tor being about to establish at Free
port a vocation trade school for boys
in furtherance of a report on the Henry
Ford Trade School in Detroit, made
last year by Philip La Toilette, at Raw
leigh's request. The La Folletteites
further point out that Mr.. Rawleigh at
his own expense provided the services
OF distinguished Chicago lawyer to
United States Senators who In the last
session of the Federal Congress were
striving to perfect the bill introduced by
the Farmer-Laborite, Senator Henrik
Shipstead of Minnesota for restricting
the power of judges to issue injunctions
in labor disputes.
Anti UniOnism Charged.
The La Folletteites further contend
that laudations of Gov. Walter Jodoc
Kohler of Wisconsin by labor spokes-
men in alleged league with Wolf are
further proof of a design by Vol to
try to ruin Philip La Toilette during
his present contest with Kohler for the
Wisconsin governorship Republican NOM
nation. They charge Kohler with OPP
Grating an anti-union open shop in his
manufacturing plant at Kohler, Wis,
and they contend that whatever con-
siderateness he may have shown to
some labor legislation while Governor
does not exonerate him of being in eff
feet an enemy to labor"
Copyright 1907