Show WILL THERE BE A NEW LABOR PARTY There are various signs some In the East and some In the West that organized or-ganized labor proposes to put up candidates candi-dates for office not merely of Its I own choosing but pledged to principles which It alone will stand for Not only aro the unionists asking pointed and pertinent questions of various candidates candi-dates on other tickets but they are suggesting to their various fellow unionists that the only way open for organized labor now Is to put up candidates can-didates of Its own so that the labor party pure and simple will gradually form and extend Ha own lines throuGhout throuGh-out the country and stand or fall with Its own principles and candidates In L way this plan Is to be commended com-mended Looking at it In another way the movement surely ought not to be commended but rather discouraged and this for the Interest of organized labor Itself In the first place It would tend to create class distinctions of which we have had too many and which the great mass of our people would not now sympathize with Again and chiefly such a movement would Injure as we believe the very people whom It IB Intended lo benefit for so far from allying themselves with one or the other of the great parties and hence Influencing its councils and Ho decisionsat the polls It would hold aloof from all their councils would seek not to influence them in the right course but to bo wholly apart from them and finally would only show to what extent organized labor Is believed In and adhered to as n proposition above everything else that Is good In the country Organized labor by this rpcans would only chow Its weakness a weakness which Is not Inherent In It but which must bu palpable to any observer ob-server who had the first results of such n separate organization and such a party work before him The evolution of thin plan would leave out of account the great permanent perma-nent fact that only a small proportion of labor Is organized that a great proportion pro-portion of labor docs not wish to be organized and probably will never be organized and that 1 small proportion comprised within the unions and the federations of unions has its far reaching and wholesome influence bo cause It Is now free to attach Itself now to one cause and now to another as far as they seem to bo right and Just and equally oppose one cause and now another which seems to be unjust and wrong In many places It Is a balance of power and a good one To pursue Its politics Independently It would hI standing alono without the ability to call to Its support the help of others |