The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-29

IN hiding during most of the I
Conference for Progressive Polit
more brazen in its flirtations WI
ments attacking the promising g
at st. Paul.
Both statements carry the ST
regime in the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
They raise the bugaboo of the
"red menace" a tune so often
played by the Palmer and
|Daugherty regimes in the hys-
Iterical department of justice,
under both democratic and re-
publican rule.
The Blessing Of Burns.
While the Conference for Progress
sive Political Action has already, on
every occasion, raised the ''red" Boz
gey, Senator LaFollette now joins the
pack, that received the blessing of
the ousted Detective William J. Burns,
who said: "Altho do not sleep in the
same bed with Mr. Gompers, certain
ly support him in his stand against
the Communists" or words to that
effect.
1t has been felt all along that Sen
ator LaFollette would seize the first
possible opportunity to desert and be-
tray the growing class conscious
farmer-labor movement in the United
States. He has done this in his state
ment issued today, in which he uses
the excuse, Of Communist participa-
ton in the St. Paul convention to
withdraw from it.
At the same time LaFollette con-
fessed his allegiance to the old par
ties of Wall street when he made clear
that he still had his eyes on the ma
tional conventions to be held at
Cleveland and New York city.
LaFollette's statement today took
the form of letter to Attorney Cen
eral H. L. Ekern Of Wisconsin, in full
as follows:
LaFoIlette to Ekern.
''My dear Ekern:-
81 have your letter of May II, say
ing that many of my friends in Wis
consin are anxious to know my atti-
tude toward the .Farmer-Labor-Pro
gressive convention called to meet at
st. Paul June II.
81 should not feel it incumbent upon
me to declare my attitude except that
my name is being used by the pro-
motors Of that convention in such a
way as to convey the impression that
it has my approval and, as a result,
some of my friends in different parts
Of the country contemplate attending
the St. Paul convention. Because of
these facts, feel it my duty to state
my view frankly.
Il have no doubt that very many Of
those who have participated in bring
ing about the st. Paul convention have
been actuated by the purest desire to
promote genuine political and eco
uomic progress.
He Smells "Fatal Error"
Nevertheless, in my judgment the
June 18th convention will not COM
mand the support Of farmers, the
workers, or other progressives be-
cause those who have had charge of
the arrangements for this convention
have committed the fatal error of
making the Communists an integral
part of their organization.
"The Communists have admittedly
entered into this political movement
not for the purpose of curing, by
means OF the ballot, the evils which
afflict the American people but only
to divide and confuse the progressive
movement and create a condition Of
chaos favorable to their ultimate aims.
Their real purpose is to establish by
revolutionary action dictatorship Of
the proletariat, which is absolutely re-
pugnant to democratic ideals and TO
all-American aspirations. The official
declarations OF the Workers Party
show clearly that they are seeking to
use the Farmer-Labor party OF Mime
sofa and other progressive organiza-
tions that have lent their names to
this convention as means OF advanc-
ing their own ends.
Quotes from "DaIIy Worker"
"This is shown by an official state
ment Of the Central Executive Com
mittee OF the Workers Party Of Amer
lea, as follows:
"(Printed in the DAILY WORKER
the official organ OF the Workers
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