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Show Federation of Labor Will Enter Political Arena For Campaign WASHINGTON. Fed, 2: Pursuing ths Policy Instituted In 1 920, the American Fednratlon of Labor, through Its non-parlsan political campaign committee, will enter the congrestdonul primaries and elections this fall In an effort to nominate and elect candidaten favorable to organized or-ganized labor. This was announced tonight by Sam tie Qbmpers, president of the fed ration at the i onblftslon of th quarterly meeting of the federation's executive coun II "Labor will place such candidates in tho field wherever necessary1 the announcement said "it need occa sion no surprise If then, are in m'inv district candidates placed In the field by labeir as a direct resuTt of antagonistic antag-onistic attitudes on th- part of tin-candidates tin-candidates in both Republican nnd Democratic parties. in tin opinion of labor the present political and economic- .situation makes Imperative the most energetic political action" Mr, Oompers declared the cam paln committee doubtless would be guld.-d in Itn work by the IsSuOS Involved In-volved In the unemployment situation situa-tion and the possible methods of alleviation al-leviation which the government might adopt, In the use of court Injunctions In-junctions In labor disputes, hi the ellmlnatloh of tax systems which "remove the burdens from tho rich and predatory and place them on the shoulders of the poor.' and In the general fb-ld of labor legislation. He declared cdngress was "in th- midst of un SJTi axing kind of muddling mud-dling with tax :-"i tariff questions, wh.-re little regard is had for th. Interests In-terests of the great masnes of our people." nnd was no more constr ictive ic-tive in dealing with transportation than It has been in other fields. " State labor organizations were Bald by Mr. Oompers to be already preparing pre-paring details of the campaign and the standing campaign waii authorized au-thorized by the executive council co tak up and co opdrats In tho work. |