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Show "Elect Friends and Defeat Enemies" Burden of Message Mes-sage Sent to Unions j WASHINGTON. July 18. A sum I men b to labor fn organize for a fight to "elect its friends and defeat its H enemies" in the forthcoming election H has been sent out by Samuel Gompers, H president, and Prank Morrison, sccre H tary of the American Federation of H Labor, it was announced today. H Mr Morrison also aid that both he Qd Mr, Gompers probably would take JH 'the stump in oersoi. to explain the H alms of labor and to advocate its po H litlcal program. H The campaign in being organized by raH the national nonpartisan political cam ' paitTn committee of the American Fed M eratlon of Labor. Two series of con H ferences have been called from head-quarters head-quarters which vrill bring into ses-sion ses-sion r-ti'.to and congressional district .'! tt leaders throughout the country. 'H MEETINGS CALLED". ' j The letter calling for meetings of stale executives committee through-out through-out the country follows: 'H "To Slate Federal ion of Labor Dear mm Sirs and Brothers: : "Tho national campaign committee recently hns niniled to you copies of he legislative records on measures of . interest to labor of all members of the sixty-oixth congress whose term T of office expires on March 4. 1921. . Copies of these records have also been mailed to every labor organization in .; your state. "It is of the utmost importance to j mU the interests of labor that the infor- g M mation coutalnei in these records be given the broadest publicity among the workers of your state to the end thai Ihey will be enabled to learn th M attitude toward labor of their lcgls SESSIONS SUGGESTED. "In order that a definite program may b;- mapped out to reach every tragi earner in yr.ur state, we suggest ilia' the e cutive council of your bodv M be called into special session on Sat-in-day, August 7, at which theso rec ords shall be read and discussed and measures adopted for establishing the closest co-operation with this commit- tee to make the nonpartisan political campaign of the American Federation of Labor a triumph for labor in your "The interests of every worker ln the land are involved in this campaign J and we are corlident that when its vital bearing upon our labor move-ment move-ment is fully realized, all will volun-teer volun-teer their services to help us in mak-in;: mak-in;: this campaign the greatest victor? or labor and justice in the political history ot our nation. "Yours fraternally, (Signed) SAM I EL GOMPERS, I RANK MORRISON, "JAMES O'CONNELL. "Executive Committee." In addition to state conferences, it Is planned to create congressional district dis-trict organizations everywhere. August 7 is sei for mate conferences. No specific spe-cific date is yel ret for the first conferences. |