Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-19
FARMER LAB0R|TES
STRIVING To HOLD
LAFOLLETTE MILNE
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
Especial Leased Wire TO The Journal.)
(CoDyright 1924

Copyright, 1924
ST. PAUL, Mimi, June 11-Sen-
ator Robert M. La Toilette, of Wis
consin, will be given another oppor-
tunity to run TOR the presidency on
the farmer-labOr- progressive ticket.
His Reputation or the communists
who are assembled here for confer.
ence has led TO bitter feeling. but
the extreme radicals in the farm
labor movement are willing to abide
by the strategy OF their more con-
sentative comrades and present the
platform OF this convention to the
Wisconsin senator for his ;ndorse-
ment. Jf he accepts, he must agree
to run on the platform adopted here
The platform will not be commu
nistic, according to G. K. Ruthen.
terg, secretary OF the workers oar
ty of America, and an avowed com
munist. He recognizes that his
group is in the minority here and
simply says that if La Toilette is to
receive the nomination Of the dele
gates here he must agree to take
the platform.
Hope For Third Party
1--WE are not interested in individ.
uals," said Mr.. Ruthenberg, but in
principles and parties. Out of this
conference, we hope will grow a
third party. II Senator La Toilette
doesn't accept, we shall probably
nominate Duncan Macdonald, of II.
linois, former head of the United
Mine Workers Of that state, and
William Bouck, of the state of Wash
ington, for president and vice presi-
dent respectively. We expect to put
a ticket in the field in at least forty
states in the coming election. We
have already been organized ana
have considerable strength in Min
nesota, North and South Dakota,
Montana, Nebraska and Washing
ton, and this year we have orsanl-
cations in Massachusetts New YORK,
Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Mis-
souri,, California, pennsylvania,
Ohio, New Jersey, Kansas, Oklaho-
ma and Colorado"
The platform to be adopted Will be
along the lines of the farmer-lapor
program, part of which demands so.
cial legislation Cor the farmer ana
the worker. TO understand the stu
alton here, it is Necessary to appre-
ciate that in the Minnesota prlma-
ries, this week, the communists VINO
are really the left wing or radicals,
of the farmer-labor party, have en-
tered q complete ticket and even a
man to oppose Senator Magnus John-
son, who, IL the eyes of the commu-
nists, is a conservative. The COM
munists realize they are in the mi
nority and, Of course, if Their ticket
loses, they will support Masnus
Johnson and other candidates who
will win the farmer-labor party noml-
nation.
Factions Developed
1t so happens that the farmer-labor
party is the dominant political body
in this lite, as the Demo cratic party
has been virtually obliterated, while
large numbers of the Republicans
have Joined the farmer-labor part. ..
Under such circumstances, it is IN
evitable that the farmer-labor party
should in turn develop a radical and
conservative faction.
Mr.. Ruthenberg explains that while
the ultimate aim of the communists
which he represents Is the "dictation
Of the government by the proletarlct
and the intr 1uction Of the soviet
SYSTEM" such a goal is not readily
reached and it is wiser to follow the
methc of political action through
the regular constitutional processes
until such time, Of course, as the
COZ munists gain sufficient strength
to overcome constitutional barriers.
The writer asked Mr. Ruthenberg
how he defined the essential differ
ence between Senator La Toilette
and the communists.
well" he said, "to our way of
thinking, Senator La Toilette is NOT
even radical. H. believes in the
capitalistic system, but We believe in
the soviet system. He has always
been a Re blican. He did not even
bolt the Republican party in 1912"
CIegeland Convention
This convention holds itself more
or less aloof from the conference for
progressive political action which is
to take place in Cleveland on July
and which is expected to indorse Sen
ator La Toilette. Some of the lead
ers here are doubtful whether the
Cleveland conference will make any
progress. They have the idea that
William Gibbs McAdoo through his
friendship with the heads of the rail
way brOtherhoOds will have consid-
and that if by chance he has been
nominated by the Democrats in New
York there will be a determined eff
fort made by his friends to secure
an Endorsement for him at Cleveland
in which case Senator La Toilette
might not wish to run. for he is rep
resented here as believing he ought
not make the race unless he has the
united support of all the elements at
the Cleveland conference
Asked for his comments on the
Republican ticket, Mr.. Ruthenberg
said:
Most OF us feel that with a strike
breaker at the head Of the ticket
referring to Mr.. Coolidge's part in
the Boston police strike) and q fas-
cisti for vice president, the Republic
ans have done exactly what might
have been expected of them and made
it all the more necessary that labor
should be thoroughly organized"
n, c. & ST. l.. HEAD WARNS
AGAINST LA TOILETTE GROUP
ATLANTIC CITY, June IL
United States Senator La Toilette,
Of Wisconsin, and his associates in
congress, are endeavoring not only
to bankrupt the railroads Of this
country, in line with the Russian so
Wet regime, but have as their obiec. |
tive the naturalization of all forms
of private property" w. r. Cole |
president of the Nashville, Chatta-