The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17
STAGE is SET
FOR UNITY AT
JUNE II MEET
Last Step Taken by ST. Cloud
Convention
By WILLIAM F. dunno.

he last link welding to-
gether the farmer-labor forces
of the United States for the
June 18th convention was
forged when, following the
forty-minute speech of William
Mahoney, of St. Paul, for the
unanimous recommendation of
the resolution committee, the
convention of the official Min
nesota Farmer-Labor Party,
without a dissenting vote, en-
dorsed the call for the June
18th convention, previously
ratified by the St. Paul confer
ence of northwest Farmer-La-
Dor parties and the Minnesota
Farmer-Labor Federation.
The climax came after a
week of conferences during
which the reactionaries in the
Minnesota labor movement,
aided by Buck, Brown and
Rodriguez, Of Illinois, and
William V. Mahoney, of Wash
ington, D. c., had used every
possible method of sowing dis
sension and distrust in an at
tempt to thwart the formation
of a mass Farmer-Labor Party
by preventing endorsement of
the call and splitting away of
sections of the movement.
June 18th Applauded.
The answer of the farmers and
workers of Minnesota to the disrup-
tionists nd their hysterical denun-
citation of the reds was the unanimous
vote at st. Cloud for a call that in
cludes every section of the working
class movement which subscribes to
the program and purposes of the
farmer-labor parties sponsoring the
June II convention.
William Mahoney was constantly
interrupted by applause altho he
made no oratorical efforts whatso-
ever. He told of the work that had
been done in preparation for the st.
Cloud convention, of the failures and
successes, of the hopes and fears of
those who had taken the lead in the
work. eve must, he said, Ego on
record here for consummation of our
efforts on June II that the millions
of workers and farmers who are.
watching this convention will know
that we want no fusion with the CAPT
talist parties, will make no deals
with them, but that we are trying to
build a powerful farmer-labor party.
Cant Depend on c. p. p. A."
"LaFollette will run on this plat
FORM" he sail, and the convention
broke into wild applause. eve can
not depend upon the Conference for
Progressive Political Action, he con-
tinued. "That organization is control
led by international officials who have
never been distinguished for progress
sive principles. We who have taken
the lead in this movement in Mime
sofa have placed our dependence upon
the rank and file and we believe that
this confidence is not misplaced"
When the vote was taken the dele
gates rose to their feet, cheering
Mahoney and the resolution.
State Senator Taylor Of Montana,
editor Of the Producers News of
Plentywood, was called upon to ad-
dress the convention and in a short
but eloquent speech thanked the dele
gates for the action they had just
taken and assured them that they
had expressed the sentiments of the
workers and farmers Of Montana and
Of the Northwest.
The Last Gasp.
One Schier, correspondent Of the
Jewish Daily Forward, who had been
cooperating with the anti-farmer-
labor forces in the convention as a
delegate from Minneapolis, secured
the floor after the vote had been taken
and attempted TO attack Mahoney but
was hooted down by the convention.
This was the last gasp from the OBJ
structionists.
Had the descriptive elements sue
ceeded in getting as their temporary
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