Show washington parade e the scrambled primaries in pennsylvania emphasized one fact which will be of the highest importance in both national and local i elections for years to come namely that labor unless united will not be a deciding factor from the founding of the united states the man who works laborer or mechanic skilled orun or unskilled has reserved to himself the right to select his own political party this has led to the astonishing toni shing sight of two men of identical social interests lining up on election day for opposing candidates di for half a century labor supported a democratic city government in boston and new york and a republican one in chicago and philadelphia it is no acre secret here that the real bugaboo of reactionary statesmen and businessmen communism or even new dualism but the fear that labor agriculture and the millions on relief or near re lief will discover that they have a common cause the latest news from the labor front should therefore be consoling not only to reactionaries but to con conservatives ives and to any others who are apprehensive of a welding of the agriculture labor relief millions into a juggernaut which some aspiring dictator might try to use as a triumphal chariot amid all the clamor of campaigns for the rights of this or that minority group throughout the world there is one right here in the capital which has been beem waged for many years it is is the ahe demand for the right to vote by the more than half a residents of the district of columbia sixty four years ago congress took over the rule of the district and the appointment of its officials for sixty four years the residents temporary or permanent from whom over forty million dollars in municipal taxes are collected every year have demanded a voice in the management of their city congress has remained 1 conveniently deaf it is often pointed out that all residents of the district of columbia are really temporary and that they can vote in their home cities or towns this is of course untrue for the permanent population of this city is now more than half the total and it is estimated that only person in eight has haj a voting residence el elsewhere only one in fifteen acqua actually ily does vote but congress is unlikely to remedy the si because andl and just because the washingtonians Washington ians lams have no votes |