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Show LABOR PLUNGES INTO POLITICS. Formulates Measure for Prosecution of Demands at Polls. Washington. Definite plans for the first nation-wide, aggressive political campaign by organized labor to control congress and elect friendly national and state officials have been made by a committee of the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor and will be announced soon. The fight, labor officials declared Friday, will be bipartisan and will be launched in the coming presidential primaries. Representatives in congress whose records show them to be unfriendly to organized labor, it was said by members mem-bers of the committee, will be opposed vigorously for re-election and new candidates can-didates hostile to labor's interests will meet the same opposition. Every craft affiliated with the federation will be called upon to join in the fight, it was added, and congressional districts will be actively canvassed and an army of organizers will be put in the field. The federation now claims a membership member-ship of more than 4,000,000. |