The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-01
Labor League Breaks C Completely With Lewis
Plans Changing Name of Organization to Sever Rela-
 lions With Dangerous Man. Convention Oct. II

the league and to take steps to cre- ate the deepest unity of labor and the pople behind President Roose- welt in the great crusade against Hitler and his Axis"
 Official action Severing its con- nections with Labor's Non Partisan league nationally will also be taken at the convention, State Represen- tative Nicholas Tomassetti announc- ed. The national office is in John L. Lewis vest pocket.
 Lewis Scored
 'The America First theology of John L. Lewis and his hatred of President Roosevelt" Tomassetti pointed out, "have never been part of the Connecticut organizations guiding principles. At next Sum days convention, we expect to change the name of our organiza- ton and sever our last physical con- nection with this dangerous man.
 The Connecticut League, "the state chairman emphasized, "has as it's one measure of all its action to- day 100 per cent support of the war effort and of President Frank lin Delano Roosevelt. This will be the leagues measuring rod next Sunday, he pointed out, when the time comes for the endorsement ot the Congressional candidates. The Convention Call announces that il will be an emergency wartime Convention of Labor,s Non-Parti- san League of Connecticut"
 List of Speakers
 Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy oi Hartford is expected to welcome the delegates; and Gov. Robert A, Hurley, and Congressman Lucien Maciora, LeRoy Downs, William Fitzgerald, Herman P. Kopplemann, and James A. Shanley have been invited to address the convention. The League Convention is expected to follow the policy of tI.s Gsate Industrial Union Council which has endorsed for reelection Governor Hurley, Lieut.. Gov. Odell Shepard and Congressman-at-Large Maciora. CIO Congressional Conferences have endorsed the other Congressmen and and also the Democratic nominee in the fifth district, Mayor William A. Patten of Torrington.
 Election Issues
 TomaSsetti'S report to the con- vention will deal with the issues of the election and with the need to help elect to public office only those who are thoroughly commit ted to support President Roosevelt's policies, both domestic and foreign. The spectacle of the Republican bloc in the House allying itself with the Poll Tax congressman from the south to block President Rooseyelt's Labor Day request for anti-inflation measures, which would return farm prices to parity, will be dealt with in full, the chairman promised.
 The Conference amplifies the de- termination of the League to inspect all candidates in the light of the need to elect a Victory Congress in 1942.
 ''T71e 1922 Congressional and state elections are coming rapidly clos er," the Call sent to Unions, Civic and Fraternal groups throughout Connecticut, states. The tremend- ous stakes are made clearer every day. In this hour of crisis, we know that our nation must be fully mo- bilized for war behind the Com mander-in Chief. We need men in office who will fight Hitler, not Labor"
 TomasSetti is a veteran of two terms in the Connecticut General Assembly and recently led the New Britain ticket in winning renomina- ton for representative. Also among guest speakers invited, according to the League office, will be such Labor candidates as William Scott, presi- dent of the Hartford Central Labor Union, who seeks state senatorship as a Democrat in Hartford; and Harold ConrOy, treasurer of Local 27O, Colt CIO Industrial Union, who has been nominated in Hartford for the General Assembly, also a Democrat.