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Show ' PLAN OVERTHROW IN CONGRESS Workers Declare For Election of Congress Favorable to Workingmen. Washington. The American Federation Federa-tion of Labor has issued its expected call to the electorate for "an overturn in congress." Under the signature of President Samuel Gompers, the current issue of the American Federationist, the official offi-cial organ, carries an indictment of congress and the executive departments depart-ments for "incompetence on the cost of living issue," and, outlining a program pro-gram of "deep cutting measures," declares de-clares : "There must be an overturn in congress. con-gress. Enemies must be defeated ; friends must be elected." Presenting an itemized list of corporation cor-poration profits, similar to that recently re-cently introduced in a speech by Senator Sen-ator Capper of Kansas, Mr. Gompers declares that, while twenty-one enumerated enum-erated corporations last year received profits averaging 435 per cent above normal, the average cost of living increased in-creased 96 per cent and the average union wage 55 per cent. |