The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-12

than The fact that the Workers
Party OF America is opposed to
Third Party and for the formation
OF class Farmer-Labor Party.
The Farmer-Labor Party has just
completed a circle in politics in re-
lation to the formation of a mass
Farmer-Labor Party in the United
States. After the Cleveland conven-
ton of the Conference for Progress
sive Political Action the Farmer
ganization and John Fitzpatrick, one
of the leaders of the party, de-
nounced the Conference for Progress
sive Political Action as a "scab out
fit" and as dual to the Gompers
machine. 1t then called the July Bird
Convention and when it found that
the 600 representatives of labor I'M
ions and other workers organizations
who assembled there were in earnest
in their desire to create mass Farm
er-Labor Party and formed the Fed
Grated Farmer-Labor Party, it split
away and proceeded on its own iso-
lated path. Recently representatives
of the old Farmer-Labor Party met
with the organizations which called
the June 18th Farmer-Labor Party
convention, but when they found
that they could not have their own
way they split away from this group.
And now. 10 and behold what has
happened? The Farmer-Labor Party
of Buck. and Brown, and Fitzpatrick
has decided to go back to the "scab
outfit" and "dual7 organization Of
the Gompers machine-the Confer
ence for Progressive Political Action.
Buck Seeing Things.
The source of the discovery of the
policy of the Workers Party in rela-
ton to the Third Party by the New
Majority is my article of March 9th
in the DAILY WORKER. The New
Majority quotes the following from
my article
"The immediate work before the
fsrmer-labor group is strong of
fensive against the Conference for
Progressive Political Action The
Cleveland convention can have all
the third party elements. 1t can
have the representatives of the
well-to-do farmers, the small bust
ness men and the broken-down old
party politicians who are looking
for new fields in which to conquer.
1t can even have the labor ariste-
Gratis, the ten thousand-a-year la
Dor leaders, who are petty bour-
.geoisie in all their ways of living
and thinking.
But the Conference for Prog
ressive Political Action Cleveland
conference must not have a single
exploited farmer or industrial
worker without a fight.
From now on there will be a
struggle between the two conven-
tions for the support of the masses
of exploited farmers and indus
trial workers. -. :"
This, writes the editor of The New
Majority, shows the duplicity of the
Workers Party. At the st. Paul con-
ference which called the June 18th
Convention, he writes, the Workers
Party led those associated in that call
to believe that it was for co-opera-
ton with the July 4th Convention.
Here, however, we have the real
policy Of the Workers Party stated,
and that is bitter struggle against
the July 4th Conference.
Where the Workers Party Stands.
What is the truth of the matter?
II the Workers Party has one policy
at the st. Paul conference, has It
now adopted new attitude? Let US
examine the matter. and if the editor
Of the New Majority. who seems TO
read the DAILY WORKER assiduous-
ly. will follow the argument, even he
will gain some enlightenment on the
subject.
The st. Paul Conference adopted
the following resolution in relation to
the July 4th Conference:
"This Conference re-endorses
the proposal adopted by it on No
vember 18th to hold convention
Of all the farmer-labor groups on
June 18th in the Twin Cities.
'Tn re-affirming its decision to