SEN. CAPPER HITS YELLOW DOG CONTRACT
SEN. CAPPER HITS YELLOW DOG CONTRACT Says Device Is Repugnant To Conditions of Day; Explains Stand on Parker (Special to The Progressive) TOPEKA, Kans.—Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas....
...It certainly seems to bs the one great bulwark of our democratic visfitufions...
...Am encloslH check and thank you.—Sarah W. TownV The photographic Industry of Mil United States consumes over 150 tons of silver per year...
...11] I priz-e the Progressive...
...an dabsolutely opposed to the best public policy...
...Capper was unopposed in the Republican primary, while Senator Allen received only 35 per cent of the vote, but on account of the fact that opposition against him gave its support to two other candidates, he was nominated by a small plurality...
...The recent primary in Kansas showed the-sentiment of the people regarding these two senators...
...Al» though he is a Republican, his eleo tion in November Is considered uncertain...
...Progressive Republican, declared before a large audience here recently that the yellcjw dog contract used by anti-union einployers in this country is "fundamentally wrong and thoroughly repugnant tik the social and industrial conditions oi"lTi&' -d...
...Discussing the Senate fight on the appointment of Judge Parker, whose anti-labor record and support of the "yellow dog contract" brought him the combined opposition of progressives and labor all over the country, Senator Capper said, "The attitude of mine of a Supreme court justice in interpreting the Constitution and the laws in then-relation to human rights is one of the most important matters to be considered in approving an appointment for life on the highest court in the land...
...I was proud to vote writh Senators Borah, Norris, Frazier, Brookhart, and other true friends of popular government against confirming a man whose ideas and ideals of government, so far as the laboring man is concerned, could not be classed otherwise than as reactionary...
...Senator Capper told of Judge Parker's action in supporting the "yellow dog contract" that was the issue in the Red Jacket injunction case, and said that Parker "went out of his way" to uphold it in his decision...
...A BULWARK OF DEMOCRACY 'C.-.nnceticut...
...On the question of confirming the appointment of Judge Parker, Senator Allen vo|ed with the senate reactionaries in favor of the appointment...
...I voted against the confirmation of Judge Parker because I felt, after studying the situation and inquiring into his record'carefully, that I could not do otherwise under my responsibility to the people of Kansas and of the United States...
...Senator Capper has always been known* for his support of the rights of the laboring man and for his progressive ideals, while the other senator, Henry J. Allen, has showed himself willing to trail along with the Old Guard...
...Senator Capper was one of the group of Progressive members of the Senate whose vigorous efforts prevented the confirmation of Hoover's appointment of Judge J. J. Parker as justice of the United States Supreme court last spring...
...and wc need Success to your efforts...
...Ohio, Sept...
...Following Senator Capper's address, several Progressives In the audience were heard to comment on the striking dissimilarity between Kansas* two representatives in the Senate...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 42
