The literary digest . SEEING ST.\RS. —Hammond in the Wichita Eagle. the several States shall pro\ide legislation fn harmon.\- tlu-ro-with to carry out its provisions. 12. Such other provisions as will destroy every vestige ofthe beverage liquor traffic throughout the United Stats and itspossessions. 14 The Literary Digest for February 1, 1919 AN AMERICAN LABOR PARTY 1; HIRD PARTIES iu this country have generallycome to grief, but the scope of the present move-ment to organize hand and brain workers into apolitical unit and its appearance in a winter of unrest and dis-content convince some obse
The literary digest . SEEING ST.\RS. —Hammond in the Wichita Eagle. the several States shall pro\ide legislation fn harmon.\- tlu-ro-with to carry out its provisions. 12. Such other provisions as will destroy every vestige ofthe beverage liquor traffic throughout the United Stats and itspossessions. 14 The Literary Digest for February 1, 1919 AN AMERICAN LABOR PARTY 1; HIRD PARTIES iu this country have generallycome to grief, but the scope of the present move-ment to organize hand and brain workers into apolitical unit and its appearance in a winter of unrest and dis-content convince some observers that history is likely to forgetto repeat herself in this instance. The time was never moreripe, says the New York American, and Mr. Hearst hints thatthe influence of his chain of newspapers may be thrown to thenew party. In the great coal and iron district in western Penn-svlvania the editor of the JohnsfoAvn Democrat also thinks the. «1T STEAOY IN THE BOAT. —Chapin in the St. Louis Republic. movement fortunate in its birth in this hour of world-widepolitical confusion. Unless all signs are misleading, said theconservative Brooklyn Eagle shortly after the Bridgeportunionists organized a political party, it will not take long for itto become a going concern. The New York Evening Post,too, concludes that if it is wisely and sincerely led the new move-ment will be difficult to kill. It notes that by the middle of lastmonth the central labor committees of forty-five cities had in-dorsed the platform of the American Labor party. Perhapsit was the action of the Chicago unionists that first aroused thenations attention to the entrance of this new Richmond in thepolitical field. The Cook County Labor party was organizedwith a clear-cut platform, emphasizing public ownership and witha complete city ticket. It soon claimed LjO,000 members payingdues and secured the indorsement of fifty-eight local Illinois Stat
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