The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-13
Agree On June 18th Call
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Cramer, editor of the Minneapolis
Labor Review, and member of the
Minnesota delegation.
Cramer delivered brilliant speech.
Point by point he took up the objec-
tions, insinuations and lies of the OBJ
structionists, and mercilessly tore
them to shreds.
'You people,, said Cramcr, "hold
UP Minnesota as the model you wish
to be guided by, yet you ask and in
sist that this conference do the thing
Minnesota has refused to do, namely,
exclude any group of workers that
will go along with the program. This
all-inclusive policy is responsible for
our success in Minnesota.
Communists Are Dynamic Force.
Cramer went on to shell the argu-
ments of the obstructionists with
deadly effect and said: "You want to
exclude the elements that are the
dynamos of the movement, and with
out which no movement can live and
! be successful. We have to choose be-
tween being successful and being re-
spectacle, and you want us to choose
responsibility. These arguments of
yours are the arguments used by
Daugherty, DENLY and the rest of the
! hundred percenters, before they wese
using all their time to wipe of. the
stain of oil and dodge the peniten-
tiary. These arguments of yours
would be alright in convention of
republicans or democrats, but they
are out of place in a gathering of
farmers and workers who are here to
build a defense against a common
enemy. Let's start to build and quit
acting like small editions of Ebert
H. Gary"
Tremendous applause followed
Cramer's speech, and the previous
question on the, convention call was
carried.
Teigen's Last Effort.
The question was reopened, how
ever, in order to permit Teigen to
stage the last effort of the obstruc-
tionists by introducing an amend
ment to eliminate all national par
ties from the call.
This amendment was defeated. A
committee on arrangements was then
elected and the conference adjourned.
Negligible Opposition Discredited.
The Illinois malcontents have been
thoroly trounced and discounted at
this conference. They have declared
that they will not attend the June
18th convention. The numerical
strength of this group is negligible.
1t was obvious to everybody at the
outset of the conference that their
sole object in coming was to make
war on the Workers Party.
The delegates are convinced that
the only purpose of these obstruction
lists was not constructive, and was
directed at breaking up the confer
ence thru an attack on the Commune
lists.
Expect Monster Convention.
| The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Fed
Grafton will open its sessions today.
There is very little doubt as to its
action on the call. The call and the
basis of representation will be adopt
ed by the Federation, and it will join
Immediately in calling the June 18th
convention.
1t is estimated that 5000 delegates
will be present at the June conven-
ton. The basis Of representation de-
cided upon calls for one delegate for
each vote which a state has in the
electoral college and one vote for
each 5000 votes cast in any state in
the election of 1922 for a progress
sive candidate.
Five votes are allowed for each
national political Organization which
subscribes to the platform. One
delegate is to be allowed for each
national economic organization. One
delegate is provided for each local
farmer organization, labor union, and
cooperative, or units Of the Nonpar-
tisan League, or working peoples
Nonpartisan political leagues. Five
delegates will be seated from each
state progressive political party
legally recognized. One delegate
from any state political party not
legally recognized and one delegate
bearing credentials from any group
Of twenty-five or more farmers will
be permitted.
LaFollette's Manager Speaks.
Before the conference adjourned
John +. Sinclair, a northwestern
bankrupt banker, who recently re-
turned from Europe after making an
investigation Of the economic and po-
litical conditions in various CONT
mental countries, was permitted to
address the delegates. Mr.. Sinclair
Is recognized to be LaFolletts's man