The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-20
COMPERS is
FOR AID FOR
LABOR FOES
Labor Takers Cogs In
Capitalist Machine
(June II Press servIes.)

81. HAUL, MIMI, May 10
The differences between the
leadership of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor and the Con-
ference for Progressive Political
Action as compared to the
desires of the rank and file as
represented in the National
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Con-
vention to be held in st. Paul,
on June 18th are clearly shown
by an examination Of the three
groups in action.
Mr.. Frank Morrison, secretary Of the
American Federation of Labor, has
issued a letter to all of the local
unions in Minnesota in which he
states that Congressman Schall has a
100 per cent labor record" and is
worthy Of the support Of organized
labor in his campaign for the Republi-
can nomination for United States SEN
ator. Mr.. Schall is one of the Repub-
dcan opponents of Magnus Johnson,
who was elected by the farmers and
workers of Minnesota on the Farmer
Labor ticket. This appears to be a
direct slap at the Farmer-Labor Party
of Minnesota which has succeeded in
electing two United States senators
and will without doubt elect it's entire
state ticket this fall. At the time of
the election Of Senator Slipstead in
1922, the G. P. P. A. tried to persuade
the workers and farmers that they
ought to support the Democratic can
didate.
Non-Partisan Break.
The Conference for Progressive Po-
Htical Action has recently issued an
appeal for the purpose of inaugurat-
ing "a nationwide campaign for the
election of true representatives of the
people to Congress and to state and
local offices" Turnout the entire
document they talk only Of indi-
viduals, nothing of building a great
political party of the farmers and
workers.
In California, the old Farmer-Labor
Party, the Non-Partisan League, the
Socialist Party, and the Workers
Party have united in ca1iing a state
convention to be held in San Fran
cisco on May 81 and June 1 for the
formation OF a state Farmer-Labor
Party. This call is having the support
~of all the workers and farmers who
are for Independent political action
by the workers and farmers. There
also exists in California a state COM
mittee of the Conference for Progress
sive Political Action which has the
backing of those conservative ele-
ments opposed to a new party. This
latter group has recently issued an
appeal to local unions in the state
asking them to organize local groups
of the c. P. P. A. In this call there
appears the following paragraph:
Oppose Farmer-Labor Unity.
Attention is called in this connec-
ton to a call recently issued for the
formation of a new political party in
California, to be known as the Farm
er-Labor Party. The last convention
of the American Federation of Labor,
by a record vote Of 25,O66 against
1895, rejected a resolution favoring
the formation Of a new political party.
The same American Federation of La
Dor convention urged the organized
workers to be partisan to principles
and not to be partisan to political
parties. The last convention of the
California State Federation of Labor
also voted against the formation Of a
state Conference for Progressive Po-
litical Action. The State Building
Trades Council. which met at Sacra-
nento, resolved to do likewise"
These three documents plainly
\ show that the workers and farmers
have nothing to hope for from the
leaders of the American Federation
OF Labor 1t is still the time worn
policy Of ''rewarding your friends and
Furnishing your enemies" dressed in
another suit of clothes. They do not
even practice consistency in carrying
out their avowed policy. Their ac-
ton in supporting candidate in the
Republican primaries in Minnesota,
where the Farmer-Labor Party is
full grown party, would indicate that
the tie to the two old parties is great
er than their tie to their friends, as
represented by the choice OF the rank
and file OF the farmers and workers.
Actions Of this kind cause those who
are for political action independent
Of the two old parties, to believe that
the Washington environment has
thrown the labor officialdom into
close contact with the political ma
chimes of the financial interests.
Learned From Experience.
Contrasted with this, the workers