The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-10-01
FARMER NOT AID
IN ORGANIZATION
OF Third PARTY
international Labor Unions
Excluded From LaFoIlette
Convention All Except
Own Followers.
RADICALS IN POWER
BAN SOIL TILLERS
Blacklist Includes Their De-
tenders in Congress.

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Lafollette was entered In the race
for President by an aggregation of ma
tiOnal and International labor unions.
The public, and particularly the farm.
er. had no voice whatever In his so
called nomination. There has existed
for over three years an organization
known as the Conference for Progress
sive Political Action. composed of l6
or Is national and international labor
unions, the majority of them railway
labor organizations.
The officers of this Conference for
Progressive Political Action are on
the whole the national and information
al officers of the labor organizations
composing the conference. The chair.
man or president of this conference
is William Johnston. president of the
international Machinists' union, and
the director of the railroad strike in
1922. Mr.. Johnston was recently can
dldate for governor of Rhode Island
on the Socialist ticket. The headquar-
ters of this conference is In the Ma
chinists' building, Washington, ID. c.,
a building owned by the International
Machlnsts
This conference held its annual
meeting In 81. Louis In February. 1924.
adopted platform, pledged itself to
launch third party. and adjourned
to meet In Cleveland July 4 for that
purpose. The convention In Cleveland
on July was therefore nothing but
the adjourned meeting of the Confer
ence for Progressive Political Action.
The delegates to the Cleveland conven-
ton were merely delegates from the
labor organizations comprising the
| Conference for Progressive Political
Action. plus a few scattering dele
gates from the Socialist party and a
few radical organizations such as the
League for Industrial Democracy. The
| Conference for Progressive Political
Action established Its own rules re-
garding whom II would admit as dele
gates and these rules were so framed
that no one not In hearty accord with
the views of the labor organizations
comprising the conference was admit
ted. Out of approximately LOCO del
egates. less than % were fi,-mers or
representatives. of alleged farmer or
| CARNATIONS.
The officers of the Conference for
| Political Action were the officers of
the convention. William Johnston, So
ciaIist lender, was the temporary and
also the permanent chairman. After
organizing the convention, resolution
was drawn up and sent TO Senator La
Toilette asking him TO lead in fight
for a third party. Not a single farmer
or representative of bona fide farm
er organization signed this petition.
The so-,HlIed platform adopted al
this convention offers absolutely moth
| ing to the farmer Ii consisted prac-
tically altogether Of n recital Of the
alleged grievances of organized labor
and demand for the enactment Of
their legislative. program Not farm
er was n member of any OF the com
|
committee on resolutions nor cred n.
tals, nor organization. nor nomina-
lions. The chairman Of each of these
committees was an official Of some in
ternational labor organization. The
| personnel of these committees were
either officials high In international
railway labor organizations or officials
high in the Socialist party. and other
radical organizations.
The convention went on record In
behalf Of the candidacy of LaIrollette.
LaFollette was officially notified Of his
nomination by committee appointed
by Samuel Goinpers of the American
Federation Of Labor and no member of
this committee was farmer. LaFol-
lette acknowledged his nomination In
the form of a letter addressed not 10
the people Of the United States or
the farmers of the United States, but
70 the American Federation Of Labor
The campaign committee handling
the LnFollette-WheeIer movement is
the National Committee Of the Con
ference for Progressive Political Ac-
tion. plus number Of Socialists. The
addition OF Socialists to this commit
tee was demanded by the Socialist
party as the price Of their support of
the ticket. This demand was made
AT meeting of the committee held In
Washington July u. at which time
representatives, Of the Socialist party
were present and insisted that they
be given 10 per cent of the commit
Tee. Their demand was granted
There Is an executive committee Of 10
handling the inside stuf of the La
Toilette Wheeler campaign. No farm
er is on this committee. The cain
paign headquarters OF the LaFollette-
Wheeler movement Is 40S Machinists'
building, Washington. d. c.
The Conference for Progressive Po-
lltical Action issues weekly publica.
ton known as Labor. The farmer
has no purt In II. II Is managed and
edited wholly by representatives of
labor organizations. II IL their off