The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-07
Workers! Farmers!
Boycott the Primary
Election Of the
Capitalist
Parties

w the state of Illinois should re-
fuse to participate in the selection
If candidates for the capitalist tick
cts at the primary elections, Tues
day, April s. These candidates, be
they so-called "good" men or "bad"
men, are nothing but the servile
tools of the bosses. They are men,
bers of the gang which looted the
resources Of the nation, exposed
thru the Teapot Dome oil scandal,
the aircraft scandal and the veter-
ans bureau graft scandal. They
ere the upholders of the present
corrupt system Of government, rum
ming on a program to maintain that
system. They have no program for
the industrial workers and mort
gagged farmers.
Workers and farmers Of Illinois,
these candidates are the chosen rep
resentatives of your enemy class,
whether they be under the special
protection Of the Chicago Tribune or
the Hearst papers. To pledge youI
support to any Of those is to help
maintain reaction, to help maintain
the vicious system of anti-labor in
functions and to drive the farmers
from the land.
Inconsistency of Labor Takers.
The inconsistency of some Of the
labor leaders who .oday support
Small for governor defies descrip
ton. Four years ago when he was
elected governor he was on the I'M
fair list by action of the Central
Labor Council of his owr home
town. Kankakee. John II. Walker,
president Of the Illinois State Fed
Grafton of Labor, at the time
stumped she state in an effort to
show that Len Small was an anti
labor candidate. That he used all
the tricks known to him to loot "
state treasury. is well known fact
here we orly need to mention that
but 2 per cent of the allotted 10 per
cent Of tie packing house bonds
went into tie state treasury. The
difference between Len Small and
those exposed thru the Teapot Dome
oil scandal is only a difference of
degree. Certainly the Illinois work
ers and farmers can have no prefer
ence for this candidate as to any
other capitalist candidate. The
treacherous labor leaders may have
their own personal interests at
stake.
Nothing can be gained by, the
workers and farmers of the state Of
Illinois in tomorrow's capitalist pri-
maries. They should stay away from
the polls and as a next step unite
their forces for political action in
dependent Cf the old bosses parties.
The existing sarmer-Labor Parties
should be compelled to unite with
the other forces of labor to put up
united labor ticket for the state
elections Nov, 1924. and FOR the es-
Establishment Of real class Farmer
Labor Party which will unite with
the forces Of workers and far.ners
meeting in national convention in
st. Paul, Mimi. June 18th.
Labor Must Rule.
Labor must thru its own instru-
ment place its own representatives
in power and control the actions Of
such representative. Labor must
stop currying favors from capitalist
politicians-their common enemies.
The Workers Party of America is
firmly committed to such program
of unity Of action and will work
ceaselessly for its realization;
Stay away from tomorrow's capt.
talist primariesl
Help unite the forces OF indus.
trial workers and farmers thru a
representative class Farmer-Labor
Party.
This is the only consistent and
effective protest to the present gov
ernmental corruption, to the injunc-
ton laws and to the proposed Coos
sack" State PoBce-District Execu-
tive Committed, District No. 8,
Workers Party Of America. Arne
Swabeck, District Organizer.