The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-04
TAMMANY HALL
WRECKS The
THIRD PARTY
Mirage Used to Lure
Workers Fades Out
]. LOUIS ENCDAHL.
Especial to the Daily Worker)

BUFFALO, NJ. Y.-NOV. a.
The last minute swing of the
Gompers crowd in the New York
labor movement to the demo-
cratic candidacy of John Wall
street. Davis has torpedoed the
LaFoIIette promise of a third
party, latter the election" that
was to be brought into being at
the January meeting of the con-
ference for progressive political
action.
This is the only after-the-elec-
ton meaning that can be at
tached to the action of the
Building Trades Council, the
Central Trades and Labor Coun-
ell, and lastly the New York City
and State Allied Printing Trades
Councils in repudiating the La
Toilette candidacy, and cham
piOning the cause of Morgan's
personal attorney.
It Was Radical Proof"
The New York central labor body
is Gompers' personal pet He reor-
ganized it, in the days following the
war, to make it radical proof"
Gompers personally placed the
Tammany Hall crowd in power that
now tries to swing labor, in the city
and state, in line for the democratic
party, that wouldn't even entertain
serious consideration OF the piffling
labor program that Samuel Gompers
himself brought to the Madison
Square Garden convention, in New
York City, last summer.
1t was $3.50 proposition as to
whether Gompers himself did or did
not inspire the change Of front of his
New York labor officialdom. Whether
he did, or did not, it certainly indi-
Gates that no move for the promised
third party" that led large numbers
to desert the fight for the national
farmer-labor party, will be made at
the FL Paso, Texas, convention of the
American Federation of Labor, now
only few days of
Action Not Surprising.
The action of the labor wing O.
Tammany Hall is not surprising. 1t
could easily be predicted 1t is in
keeping with the whole record of the
Tammany Hall machine gangsters
within the New York organized labor
movement.
The Communists in New York have
bitterly fought this crowd. But the
socialists and the LaFollette elements
lined up with them to fight the Com
munists; just as the socialist betray-
al and the LaFollette wave swept
large elements, in all sections of the
nation, in the organized labor and
farmer movements, into the most re-
dictionary deals with the place-hunt-
ing politicians of the two old parties.
From the beginning of the cam
paign the LaFollette crowd has been
supporting the Tammany Hall gov.
ernor, AL Smith, candidate for re-
election.
In Illinois, the LaFollette campaign
has thrown its support to Len Small,
republican, candidate for reelection
as governor, with the support of the
Ku Klux Khan. Then for United
States senator, it deserted it's own
candidate, and thru LaFollette's I'LL
nois manager, Charles ]. MCGOWAN, is
now supporting the democratic can
didate, the American Legionnaire,
Col. A. A. Sprague, for the senate.
In Minnesota the farmer-labor
movement is being crucified thru the
many deals being made with the pol
iticians of the parties Of the land
lords, the bankers and the grain gam.
blers. The notable instance is the en-
dorsement Of the republican candi-
date for congress, Oscar Keller, in
the st. Paul district, against the Com
munist, ]. F. Emme. regularly nom
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