The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-29

Stand Fast for the
FarE1er-Labor Party
Statement Of the Central Executive Committee
of the Workers Party

CENATOR Robert M Lar GILLETTE has come OUT in the onen
- as the enemy of the Farmer Labor movement In his
statement on the June 18th Convention shows clearly that
ne opposed to the workers exploited farmers oganz-
ing permanent political party fight for their
In order to kill the for such party which is
reaching over the country he the question Com
munlst participation in the Farmer-Labor movement
IN other words he raises the issue of the ed
n the same manner that the rsactOnary Republican poll
movement Coolidge, Lodge and LaFoette their stand
shoulder TO shoulder against this menace"
LaFolette's statement should raise in the mind Of
every exploited farmer and industrial worker the question
why LaFoIette attacking the Convention What
fears? The cry Of Communist participation merely red
herring and not the real ground for LaFoIette opposition
THE TRUTH Of the matter is that LaFoIette does not
represent the exploited farmers industrial workers.
There nothing in his program which stands for their inter-
ests is the representative of the small business
men OF this country in opposing the Farmer-Labor
ment is fighting in the interests of this class and against
exploited farmers and workers. His opposition to the June
18th Convention really opposition to the formation Of
class Labor Party which will fight the battles Of
farmers and Workers-even against LaFoette.
There is another reason why LaFoette fights the June
18th Convention. His still has hopes
influences which have long dominated it, The workers and
farmers who support the June 18th Convention have broken
their ties with the old parties They flung down the
gauntlet and entered the political fight their own
battles laFoette is against such independent political
He wants workers and farmers to wait for him
and possibly to be led back into the old parties by him.
THE Workers Party has many times warned the workers
in any individual politician has told them and over
that their strength lies in their organizing Party which will
make incorporating fight in their interests pointed
this out last spring when an attempt was made to call off the
June 18th Convention in the of the
Progressive Political Action. LaFoees attack the
venton of farmers and workers shows that the warnings of
the Communists based clear understanding of
the situation
LaFoIete says that the Communists in the Farmer
Labor movement for the purpose Of dsrupting it. The
Workers Party challenges LaFoIette any other politician
of his stripe to show any group this country which has
worked consistently and theoretically to build up great
of farmers and workers have the Com
munists While La uette and his followers have remained
in the Republican Democratic parties the Workers Party
Is fighting in every of the nation to help the workers
and farmers create their Farmer-Labor Party
The why the Communists support the formation
of FarmerLabor Party stated by Karl Marx in the
Communist Manifesto which written and half
decades ago. of the Communists, 'They have
no separate apart from those Of the proetarat
whole"
In the same statement the founder Of the Communist
movement wrote:
'Ths Communists fight for the attainment Of the i'm
mediate aims for the momentay interests OF the working
the OF the they also represent
and take Of the future Of the movement"
THE Communists SEEK in the present in this
country for the formation Of FarmerLabor Party the
first great step forward by the workers and farmers to fight
their battles against the old capitalist parties The Com
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