ABSTRACT
In the Presidential campaign of 1924 organized labor made a strenuous and successful effort to prevent the Congressional elections from being entirely overshadowed by the spectacular contest over the Presidency. Samuel Gompers and La Follette were prepared for a new party, but only as a possibility. La Follette was willing, then, to forsake non-partisan tactics, to subordinate the Congressional radical-progressive bloc, composed of Republicans and Democrats, and to indorse a new party, only in the contingency that he should be elected or come near to being elected President. In the Congressional campaign, as has been clearly set forth in the report adopted, the American Federation of Labor, through its campaign committee, will assume leadership. In the middle of the 1924 election, the Federation called attention to the fact that the great business interests had been carrying on a set campaign against Congress. The reactionary interests are doing everything they can to belittle Congress.
