The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-22

BAOup Ou program OF struggle
agsiLst the domination Of the big
capitalists. With such party the
farmer-labor party should and must
make an election alliance in the 1924
campaign.
This does not mean that the farm
er-labor party can support the candi-
date of the third party under any
and all circumstances. We must not
be blind to the possibility that a Sec
ton of the capitalists, seeing the
tremendous movement of the masses
away from the old parties, will also
enter the third party movement and
take command Of it. With such a
third party the farmer-labor party
cannot make an election alliance no
matter who may be the candidate,
but must fight against it.
On the other hand, it is not out Of
the range of possibility that La Fol-
lette or one of his group will secure
the Republican nomination at the
hands of the big capitalists who con-
troll the Republican Party and at
tempt to lead the revolving back into
its ranks. Under such circumstances,
of course, the farmer-labor party
must wage a relentless campaign
against this reactionary maneuver.
Insofar as the political develop
ments can be foreseen now we can
specify the general conditions for an
election alliance Of the farmer-la-
Dor party with a party led by La Fol-
lette or one Of his group as well as
the conditions for refusing such an
alliance.
The election alliance which would
involve the support of the candidacy
of La Toilette or some similar lead
er of the third party movement for
president in the 1924 elections can
be made if:
(a) he runs as an independent
candidate;
OBJ he becomes the candidate of
a party formed at the Cleveland
Conference Of the c. P. P. A.
(c) he becomes the candidate Of a
new party formed directly by the
progressive group in Congress revolt
ing from the old parties and exclud-
ing the political agents of capital
from the control Of the Party.
The farmer-labor party must OPP
pose the candidacy of La Toilette
or any other leader of the third par
ty movement in the election. il
(a) he betrays the movement by
accepting the Republican nominal
ton,
(b) he becomes the candidate of
new party controlled by capitalists.
In state and city elections the poll
icy of the farmer-labor party should
be as follows, as stated in the Con-
vention thesis:
"(a) The farmer-labor party will
nominate its candidates on its own
party ticket wherever possible and
carry on an Independent campaign.
"(b) Wherever the farmer-labor
party candidates have a chance to
win we win carry on the fight to
elect these candidates against those
of the old parties and the third par
ty. Wherever the Socialist Party or
any other labor political group has
a chance to win we will support these
candidates against all other parties
including the third party.
"(c) Wherever neither the far
mer-labor party nor the third party
candidates have chance to win, we
will vote for the farmer-labor party
candidates in the election.
add Where the farmer-labor par
ty candidates have no chance to win
and the third party can unquestion-
ably win against the CAP italist par
ties with our support, we will vote
for the third party candidates"
If under the conditions set forth
above an election alliance, either ma
tional or local, is made the farmer
labor party must maintain a distinct
organization and carry on an inde-
pendent campaign for its own pro-
gram and utilize the situation to the
utmost to crystalline in the definite
form of an organized farmer-labor
party all those workers and exploited
farmers who can be brought to the
Of class party.
y Turnout any campaign In which