The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-07

represents In American political life
and at the same time fight for the in
terests of the poor farmers and the
city workers.
The inclusion Of such elements as
those of the Committee Of 48 and the
Progressive groups represented by the
La Toilette elements IN Congress,
would have meant that the Farmer
Labor Party would be a mongrel.
Such a party would have divisions
within itself which would have made
it impossible for it to carry on an ag-
gressive fight because Of the contest
within the organization itself.
1t was necessary, in the movement
for the organization Of the Farmer
Labor Party, to accept temporarily
the support of some Of these elements,
but the Communists at all times kept
clearly in mind that at some stage of
the development of the party it would
be necessary to separate these ele-
ments from the Farmer-Labor party.
What Senator Robert M. La Toilette
has performed for the Farmer-Labor
Party and for the Communists is to
slough off these elements before the
opening of the June 18th Convention.
We give them a hearty Goodbye"
as they 60 on their road to the July
4th Third Party Convention-maybe
to support McAdoo.
What June 18th Promises.
With the discordant elements elm
mated, the way is open for the or
ganization on June 18th Of class
Farmer-Labor Party.
The June 18th Convention will still
represent from a half-million to mil
lion organized workers and farmers.
Out of the representatives Of these
workers and farmers, there can be
welded a mass, class Farmer-Labor
Party with platform which will
clearly express the economic interests
of the producers Of wealth on the
land and the producers Of wealth in
the mines, mills and factories in this
country.
Such a party will be stronger than
party of double the size made up of
Heterogeneous elements with different
economic interests. The grouping to-
gether in one Party Of j. A. H. Hop
kins and dad" Walker of North Da-
kota would not have added strength
to the Farmer-Labor Party-it would
have meant weakness rather than
strength. Robert M. La Toilette, the
representative of small business in
the Senate and William Bouck, the
leader of the farmers of Washington,
have nothing in common. They repre-
sent different economic categories, and
to try to unite them In a political
party would have been to create the
conditions for splits and confusion
and whitening away Of the whole
movement.
But William Bouck, Tow Ayres,
dad" Walker, w. H. Green, William
Mahoney and the Communists can
form a Farmer-Labor Federation with
program of action in the interests
of the exploited farmers and workers
and build upon this program solid
mass movement against the domina-
ton of Wall Street in the government
of the United States.
Coalition and Party.
La Follette's attack on June 18th has
also made near the defifite formation
of a national Farmer-Labor Party at
the June 18th Convention.
without this stripping away Of the
nom elements which has
taken place as result Of La Follette's
statement, there would have been a
strong argument for coalition rather
than a Party. ]. A. Hopkins and his
group would have been foreign ele-
ment in the body of the Farmer-Labor
movement. To endeavor to make
unit of such different elements would
have been dangerous. With these
elements removed, there remains the
material for a stronger party organiza-
ton.
The reaction on the part of the state
Farmer-Labor parties to LaFollette's
statement shows in itself their atti-
tude on this question. The state
Farmer-Labor Parties are for the or
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party. They want party which will
go on from this fight to the next fight
and continue the fight until the strug-
gle against Wall Street control Of
the American government is won and
Workers and Farmers Government
is established.
The June 18th Convention, before
LaFollette's statement, presented
many dangers and difficulties. 1t had
within it the elements which might
have made the organization Of a
strong political party to fight the bat
ties Of the farmers and industrial
workers impossible. LaFollette's at
tack has removed many of these diff
ficulties. The road is now clear for
the Farmer.Labor movement to march
forward. The way is open for the or
ganization of that mass class Farmer
Labor Party on June 18th upon which