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Show RADICALISM ON THE DEFENSIVE Iladlcal leadership has put union labor on tho defensive in California and will again struggle for control of tho stato federation. Weakening the cause of labor unions un-ions was shown by the small consideration consid-eration given labor lu the laBt legislature. leg-islature. Less than ten members in both houses votedfor tho legislative program pro-gram put up by the California state fedcraton. On top of this the legislature enacted en-acted a very severo law against syndicalism syn-dicalism and proposes at tho next session to copy tho Kansas Industrial court law. No greater evil can befall union labor la-bor than for tho radical clement to get control of stato organizations. Tho official labor press denounces tho radcals as bolshevistic propaganda propagan-da directed by the third Internationals Internation-als of Moscow, I Tho record of only two senators and five assemblymen in the last California legislature standing for a straight labor program will be discounted dis-counted at the next session as somo of theso candidates lost out In tho primaries. |