The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-13
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JUNE II CALL
is AGREED ON
Expect Thousands Of Delegates
at FaTmeT-L Labor Meet
BY WILLIAM F. dunno
(SDeciai to The Daily Workerl

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ST. PAUL, Mimi, Mar. H.
After considerable discussion
the call for the June 18th con-
vention to organize a national
Farmer-Labor Party, which will
wage a vigorous campaign in
the coming national elections,
was adopted by the St. Paul
Conference of Farmer-Labor
delegates here.
The only opposition to the
call came from the handful of
delegates who represented a
negligible following in Illinois.
William E. Rodriguez, Clifford
Ernst, Robert M. Buck, j. G.
Brown and William V. Ma
honey, of Washington, D. c.,
whom everybody here believes
to be the under cover agent of
Samuel Gompers, constituted
most of the opposition to this
call.
Call All-Inclusive.
The delegates are going back to
their respective Farmer-Labor parties
imbued with confidence that the June
18th convention will be the biggest
gathering of progressive workers
and farmers this country has yet
seen. The call adopted by the con-
ference is an all-inclusive one and
invites the labor and the political
groups Of the workers and farmers
the country over.
Mr.. Mahoney, of Washington, who
represented at this gathering 'the
unity committee of Washington, D.
/. CT, a creature of his own making,
was the leading opponent of this
call. Brown, Buck, Rodriguez and
Ernst, of Illinois, in cooperation with
Mr.. Ieigen, Magnus Johnson's secre-
tary, made repeated but vain assaults
against the call being so inclusive.
Workers Party the Target.
The target of the attack launched
by the Rodriguez faction was the
Workers Party and the Federated
Farmer-Labor Party. The delegates
overwhelmingly defeated these dis
ruptive efforts of the disturbers.
Rodriguez and his followers were
given all the time they wanted to
make their attacks. Mr.. Rodriguez,
in the course of one of his speeches
read for more than half an hour ex-
tracts from articles and manifestos
that appeared from time to time in
the DAILY WORKER
Stuff Too Old For Capitalists.
Rodriguez made no Roadway at all
with his arguments. At the close of
his speech a reporter for one of the
capitalist newspapers, The Pioneer
Press, remarked: 81 believe he made
a lot of converts for the Commun-
ists".
Buck and Brown followed along the
same lines that Rodriguez did. They
made desperate effort to stampede
the delegates by painting crimson
pictures of red menace. This did
not take at all with the delegates,
particularly the farm delegates, who
time and again wanted to end the
discussion.
Manley Makes Able Reply.
Joseph Manley, national secretary
of the Federated Farmer-Labor par
ty, then took the floor and in one of
the ablest speeches delivered to the
conference completely disposed of all
the arguments made by Rodriguez
and the others.
The welcome that Manley's speech
received showed what sorry figures
Buck, Brown and Rodriguez cut be-
fore the conference. The arguments
of the latter were so childish that
even the capitalist press did not fall
for them and discontinued giving
them the prominence which their
authors had hoped would be accorded
them.
Communists Defended.
Delegate w. II. Green, from Neb-
raska, ridiculed the fears Of the Illi-
nois faction with considerable effect
He was followed by Delegate r. d.
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