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Show AS IT4LOOKS TOsivkME Washington. July so. in nin probability thla will bo he lcut presl-l dcntlal year In which tho labor movement move-ment of this country, aa icprcaenled by th American Federation of L-bor, conflnca Itself to Indorsing candidates of the two major parties after thsy have been named. Though labor haa always shown a certain amount of Interest in the. nom-i lnatlng conventions and In the pr-dnventlon pr-dnventlon cauipulgns of tho various office-seekers, it Is likely to enter thla! field of political activity with a great' deal more Interest and determination when 19 2 4 cornea around. The leaders of the A. K. of L. have steadfastly opposed a distinctively la-' bor party and thoy are likely to con-! tlnue their opposition. But this will not prevent them from adopting tac-' tics somewhat similar to thoae of the Nonpartisan leaarue. which attempts to1 capture" one or the other of the ma- Jor psrt primaries. Thus we may expect ex-pect to see labor urging Its supporters to enroll In one of the old parties and to unite their efforts to nominate can-! dldatea avowedly friendly to labor I Once this Is done It la believed labor J will be able to swing enough votes to insure their election The leaders of the A F of I, will! be more Impelled to adopt theae tac-' tics because of the pressure thatl doubtless) exists from the membership for labor to take a more active part1 In politics. The Farmer-LAbor com-1 blnatlon this year, to be sure, does not promise to achieve very much In the way of actual results, but If the current cur-rent In that direction continue. 1924 might tell a different story. Tho curious thing called the officii offi-cii I mind, possessed by a number of otflec holders In the capital does not seem in every Instance to recognize that tho war Is over, so tar as this country is concerned Many bureau chiefs and chieftains still seem to think that a subject can be kept out of the newspapers merely' by expressing a wish to correspondents' that nothing be said about it. Of I course, during the war newspapers and tholr representatives co-operated ttith the government In a most patriotic pa-triotic manner, and It was sufficient' for a government official to hint thatl the publication of an article was not to this country's advantage to Insure ttat nothing would be written about, It. In this way government secrets were kept, though at the same time the people were deprived of Information to which they had every right. Many bureau heads, however, found It extremely " hand) ' to be able to keep matters out of the papers merely mere-ly ly a hint or a request, and they have endeavored to carry the same practice over Into times of peace or. j at least, comparative peace. Kven the most obtuse of them, how- I ever, sro gradually awakening. |