The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-18
June IL and the Next Task

The states where genuine farmer-labor par
ties exist have united their forces Tor the
gigantic convention that is to be held IN the
Twin Cities June II and hope and enthusiasm
now should be the attitude of the militant
workers and farmers who have made this ire
mendously important development possible.
They have worked increasingly to unite the
farmer-labor movement of America and they
have been successful Only those who know
with what devotion the militants throw them
selves into work of this character can have
any idea of the strain they have been under.
They have had to foresee and forestal the
organized campaign of sabotage launched by
the disruptionists; they have had to encour-
age the respondent elements, bolster up the
backbones of the weaklings and unite all ele-
ments around a minimum program.
The task seemed almost superhuman at
times, but it has been accomplished and all
over the nation the workers and farmers are
looking forward to the convention on June II
that will be milestone in the march of the
masses to control of their destinies.
There is no longer any doubt that the eco
nomic breakdown of American capitalism
with its misery for the masses has brought
the inevitable but long-awaited move toward
mass political expression.
The ravens of the labor movement had said
that it could not be done; that unity of the
workers and farmers on the political field was
a dream and a delusion; that oficialdOm of
both the farmer and worker organizations
was against it and that the rank and file
would do as they had always done and follow
their misleaders AS always, not content with
prophecy, the backward and dishonest ele-
ments united to justify their predictions. No
stone was left unturned in an effort to make
abortive the series of unity conferences held
in Minnesota; the menace of Communism"
was brought to the center of the stage and
from Washington, D. c., to Minneapolis a
united front of reactionaries was set up for
the purpose of splitting the movement.
The unity conferences are history now and
that history records the fact that at the time
that the most advanced elements of the work
ers and farmers of America were striving to
forget their differences and unite for Joint
action against American capitalism the tribe
of Gompers, Brown, and Rodriguez, the
C. P. P. Aers and the so-called liberals, the
S. PIERS and the politicians, were the enemies
of the united front.
1t is the future that interests us at present.
The disrupters and traitors have failed, unity
prevails and will be cemented on June II.
The efforts of the militants from now until
that date must be directed towards making it
the greatest possible success, towards express
ing in organizational form and in the plat
form that will be adopted the needs of the
masses whose pressure from below has multi
fed all attempts to keep them divided
June II must see a convention of such size
and unity of thought and purpose that Amer
lean capitalism as well as the masses will rec
ognize it for the expression of movement
that is here to stay and work and fight until
political and economic power in America is
in the hands of the workers and farmers.
There is reason now for optimism and the
croakers must be discouraged; the progressive
elements of the workers and farmers have
shown that the bogeymen of American CAPT
talism brighten them no longer.
It is now questioned solidifying the or
CARNATIONS of the workers and farmers and
building in every state powerful workingclass
parties that after June II will be ready ia
carry on the work for the program that will
be endorsed by the greatest mass gathering
that America has yet seen.
While the Rev. ]. Shera Montgomery, chap.