Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-19
FARMERS PLAN TO
JOIN HANDS WITH
THE WORkINGMEN
Political Significance At
tached to Conference Un-
der Auspices of the Non
partisan League.

st. Paul, Mimi, Sept. 19.--Will the
farmers and the workingmen of the
cities join hands politically in an eff
fort to wipe out excessive profits, So
cialize large industries and enact
legislation favoring farmers and work
ingmen? That is the question politi-
clans. businessmen and others are ask
ing regarding the purpose OF the pro-
ducers and consumers conference un-
der the auspices of the Farmers Non
partisan league here today.
Organized labor has prominent
place on the farmers program. Speak
ers emphasize the unity of interests of
both.
THE interests of the farmers and the
laporing classes are the same" Gov
ernor Frazier, North Dakota's farmer
dress.
FOR COMMON GROUND.
G. w. Lason, secretary of the ST
Paul trades and labor assembly, said:
THE farmer has been played against
the workingman in the state legisla-
ture for years and as result neither
has got much. What we both need is
| to understand each other, get on a
common footing and adjust our differ
ences"
The farmers league. which swept
| agrarian North Dakota last year, elect
ing the legislature, executive and ju-
dietary, Is preparing for the same kind
! of whirlwind campaign In Minnesota
| next year But support of labor in
Minneapolis, st. Paul and Duluth will
be necessary to win, political observ-
ers declare. They see in this confer
ence the first big attempt to cement
the forces of labor and farmers.
WATCHING DEVELOPMENT.
If the method wins in Minnesota. the
league. which Is already organizing in
dozen middlewestern states, will have.
little difficulty in gaining control of
the political machinery in large
number of states.
| Labor leaders are watching develop
ments closely. President Coughlin, of
the central labor union, Brooklyn, N.
Y, is expected to state labor's attitude
! toward this program in his speech to-
day. Resolutions advocating loyalty.
/ conscription of wealth. rural credits,
food price fixing and fair methods of
grain grading will be adopted tomor-
row, 1t is believed.
FARMERS PATRIOTIC.
Farmers are patriotic and are not
! protesting the price of wheat fixed by
the government. They are not IL
nanced by interests opposed to the
| government and they are not pro Ger
man."
That is the answer o. President
! Townley and officials of the nom
Partisan league to the charges that
they are operating with l. w. W..
pro- Germans and other interests op-
posed to the war. Every speaker on
the program announced his loyalty at
the first days sessions. Pacifists
were nettled that Mayor Van Lear OF
Minneapolis. Socialist, was omitted
from the program.
THE statement that the non Parti-
san league is connected with, coop
Grating with. or associated with the
Industrial Workers of the World has
no foundation in fact" President
Townley declared today. I'VE will
patriotically abide by the price fixed
for wheat. We are presenting ouI
} earnest, patriotic and unselfish reques,
TO the food administration that manu-
facturers and producers Of other com.
modities come under the same rule a,
| the farmers"
J Congressman Baer and other speak
ers declared farmers were willing Il
have grain prices regulated but insist
. ed on price fixing for other commodi
ties.
Farmers and workingmen through
| out the nation will join forces In sci