The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-25
The Treqchery Is Disclosed

Action of the LaFollette forces in Montana and
Minnesota reported in our columns today give the
anal proof to those who refused to foresee the
event. that the Communists were correct in pre-
dieting that LaFollette, if allowed to obtain the
support of workers and farmers without an or
ganized check upon him, would do his best to
destroy the Farmer-Labor movement. The very
first moves to be made in the campaign should
drive this bitter fact home to the understanding
of the most simple-minded follower of the Wis
consin senator.
In Montana the promising FarmerLabor Party
is to be scuttled in spite of its declaration in favor
of LaFollette, which it had hoped would buy it
exemption from the impending destruction.
In Minnesota the LaFollette gang makes the
ISSUE support LaFollette and renounce your
Farmer-Labor Party or support Foster if you in
sist upon independent working class political ac-
ton The weakened and weak-minded leaders
who have been putting their trust in LaFollette
instead Of in the strength Of their own organiza-
ton are reaping the fruits Of their own lack Of
character. They had swallowed LaFollette in ad-
vance, without conditions, and then found they had
to swallow also the abandonment of their Party.
1t is no JOY to the Communists to say, "We told
you So" 1t would have been much better to pre-
vent this betrayal, and the Communists fought
against it. pointed out how to prevent, and finally
launched their own ticket the final protest
against it and to preserve the fundamental prin-
ciples of working class political action and the
struggle against capitalism
In the st. Paul Convention, June 18th, it was to
guard against just such betrayal as we wit
ness in Montana and Minnesota that William q.
Foster made the following declaration:
"ReatIvs to the candidacy Of Mr.. LaFoIette,
feel II Incumbent upon the position of the
Workers Party In this matter. In the coming nego-
tIatons between the Farmer-Labor Party and other
groups relative to combined action upon presden-
tlaI candidate, the only basis upon which the Work
Party will accept LaFollette candidate is, II
he agrees to the FarmerLabor candidate, to
accept that partys platform and its control over his
electoral campaign and campaign funds"
Here is food for thought for all those honest and
sincere believers in the establishment of Farmer
Labor Party, who thought that they could, at the
same time, hitch their wagon to the star of the
middle-class, petty-bourgeois antilabor and anti
farNer personal ambitions of Senator LaFollette.
Onc\ again it is demonstrated to them that the
COMMUNISTS are the only reliable political leaders
for the toiling masses of the world. They now
have the choice between abandoning their prin-
ciples and surrendering themselves helpless to the
campaign of an individual, or of joining hands
with the Communists in support of Foster and
Gitlow, and in the struggle for working class or
ganization against the capitalist system
These things were inevitable. They happen be-
cause LaFollette represents class that is hostile
to the workers and farmers. The LaFollette move
ment wants to use them in the same way that the
republican and democratic parties have been using
them 1t was the duty of every man who pretended
to be leader of the workers and farmers to guard
against this betrayal. The responsibility rests
upon these misleaders.