The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-05
LA TOILETTE is
REPUDIATED BY
Reading FL.
Backs Candidates of
Workers Party
BY ADRIAN JAKIRA.
snncial to the Daily Wnrke

Farmer-Labor Party of Berks coun-
ty adopted a resolution condemning
the petty bourgeois LaFoIIette move
ment and endorsing the candidates
Of the Workers Party as the only
working class candidates now in
the field. The statement issued by
the Reading Farmer-Labor Party
among other things states:
"To make the issue clear, we do
not favor LaFoIIette and Wheeler
because they are supporters of the
capitalist system. We cannot con-
ceive that with the interests back of
them, they will do very much to
eradicate the evils that exist.
"As for the labor leaders who have
swallowed this connection it is evil
dent to US that there is very little
difference between them and the
average politician. They were care
full to retain their standing in their
own localities with the political par
ties they assume they are fighting
against, and they endorse LaFollette
as an independent candidate, which
left them free in their states to sup
port the friends Of labor in the old
parties.
at is beyond our understanding
how they can reconcile themselves
to this condition. Excepting that
they see fighting chance to find
place to hang their hats on.
Still Republican.
"LaFolIette declared himself still
a Republican, and only rebeIIng
against the present machine.
Wheeler likewise announced him
self still democrat for the same
reasons. They are only opposed to
the worst forms of the existing sys-
tenn of things.
"As members of working class
political parties and labor unions
for many years, we can not see any
real value in supporting such eIe-
ments.
"In the struggle for a better and
freer life we knaw the imposslbility
of trying to keep one foot in capt.
tallst parties and the other in
working class party and make prog
ress at the same time.
"Neither can we see how, after
years of agitation among the work.
ing class, these men who pointed
out the absolute necessity of a
working class party that should be
owned and controlled by the work.
ers at all times, can now say: It's
something just as good or "a step
in the right direction, and suddenly
shift and say Vote for LaFoIIette
and Wheeler
Confuses the Workers.
1--WE, the members Of the Farmer
Labor Party, consider the LaFol-
iette-WheeIer movement as one
that tends to confuse the workers
and those dissatisfied with existing
wrongs. The idea Of labor party
growing out of it looks deceptive,
because to circulate petitions in
every state for LaFoIIette and
Wheeler entails just as much work
and effort as 1t would for a real
labor party. To organize campaign
committees and clubs for the col
lection Of money and other political
work, such as meetings, etc, means
the same effort for LaFoIIette and
Wheeler as it would for a real labor
party.
1--WE know that the Workers
Party was the first to try to form
a real labor party that stands for
farmers and workers govern
ment. 1t has not changed its atti-
tude to meet the desires Of a few
men. Foster and GitIow have al
ways been outspoken against the
reactlonary elements, fboth in the
labor movement and out Of II, and
have been active in such important
movements like the amaIgamatlon
Of craft unions into Industrial
unions"