The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-06
Farmers!W orkers! Organize FOUR Party

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tatives of Industrial workers
and farmers, to state clearly
what the farmers and workers
would seek to achieve in this
convention and the principles
which would guide them.
Need for Farmer-LabOr Party
That the city workers and the
farmers must organize and enter
the political arena thru a party
which will fight their political strug-
giles has become so clear in recent
years that it seems almost impos-
sible that thereNis still a single in
dustrial worker or farmer who does
not know that the rotten, corrupt
Republican and Democraticic parties
will never do anything in their in
terest. Both old parties represent
the interests Of the big employer,
the banks, the marketing organiza-
tions--in a word, the capitalists
who are robbing the industrial
workers and farmers alike.
The two old parties use the gov
! eminent against the industrial work.
ers, against the farmers and for
the capitalists.
When the industrial workers strike
for higher wages, the government
helps the big employers put down
the strike thru injunctions, courts
and soldiers. In 1922, the mines
and railroad centers were filed
with soldiers by the government, to
help the coal operators and rail-
road owners whip the miners and
railroad shopmen, who were strik-
ing for a decent standard of living.
The government used its railroad
board against the railroad workers.
It secured the Daugherty injunction,
taking from the shopmen every
right given them under the consti-
tuition, cancelling at one stroke of a
pen the right to assemble, to speak,
to write, to organize and to use
their own money for strike pur-
poses.
The farmers felt the power of
the government during the period of
detiation, to such an extent that
hundreds of thousands of farmers,
yes millions, were driven from the
land and into bankruptcy. The
farmers know that all the laws
passed by Congress about the rail-
roads. marketing facilities and bank
ing are drawn so as to help the
railroads, the grain elevator own
ers and other marketing Organiza-
tons, and the bankers, but no help
comes from the government for the
millions of suffering, bankrupt farm
ers and those who are on the verge
of bankruptcy.
The capitalists do not only use
the government against the indus
trial workers and farmers. chey use
the government for themselves.
Just now they are trying to escape
the taxes they must pay on their
big incomes and load these taxes
on the backs of the workers and
farmers thru the Mellon plan. The
shocking, shameful exposure of the
looting of the country thru bribery
of Republican and Democratic Of
fee holders alike. by the big oil in
terests, maed public in the Teapot
Dome scandal show clearly what
use the capitalists make of the gov
eminent.
Movement for Farmer-Labor Party
1t is the facts and experiences
stated above which have developed
the ever-growing movement for a
farmer-labor party, thru which the
farmers and city workers can fight
their political battles against the
capitalistic parties.
This movement found its first
great nationwide expression in the
July Sd convention of last year, in
which the Federated Farmer-Labor
Party was organized. Since that
time the Federated Farmer-Labor
Party has carried on a campaign for
even a greater convention and a
stronger party for the presidential
election this year.
There must be farmer-labor tick
ct in the election this year. The
! farmers and city workers must nom-
mate candidates and adopt a plat
form representing their interests.
There must be great campaigns
against the old parties, against
their policies and their candidates,
and for the farmers and industrial
workers.
In the endeavor to achieve this
end the Federated Farmer-Labor
Party established connections with
all the existing farmer-labor parties
in an effort to bring them together
in one great nationwide farmer
labor party. When the Minnesota
Farmer-Labor Party called a con-
ference in November, the Federated
Farmer-Labor Party Immediately
responded and entered into an agree
ment with the Farmer-Labor Party
of Washington, The Farmer-Labor
Party of Montana, the Farmer-La-
Dor Party of South Dakota, the Com
mittee Of 4S. the Progressive Party
of Idaho, and the Farmer-Labor
Party of Minnesota, to call the May
Both Convention.
The Federated Farmer-Labor Party
believes that, in the May Both Con-
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