The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-06

/ labor party movement IN one great,
nationwide Farmer-Labor Party.
What Kind of Party?
| What kind of party is to be
organized May Both? This is an inn
portant question for the industrial
workers and farmers. We believe
that it is our duty to make clear
the two forces which Will struggle
for supremacy in the May S0th Con-
vention.
Not only the workers in the in
dustries and the exploited farmers
are discontinued with the rule Of
the capitalists thru the old parties.
The small business men, professional
men and the rich, well-to-do farm
ers are also dissatisfied with the
way the government is used by the
big capitalists. Every industrial
worker and exploited farmer must
understand that there is a difference
between the movement against the
old parties by the small business
men and well-to-do farmers and
the movement for party to repre-
sent the interests of the workers
and poorer farmers.
The Federated Farmer-Labor Party
fights in the interest of the indus
trial workers and the poorer, ex-
plotted farmers. Magnus Johnson,
Shipstead, Frazier, brookhart, La
Toilette, and other so-called progress
sives, represent the small business
men and well-to-do farmers. The
platform of the Federated Farmer
Labor Party stands for the interests
of the indutrial workers and poorer
exploited farmers. The measures
proposed by the so-called progress
siveS are. measures in the interests
Of the small bushes men and we'll
to-do farmers.
Both the progressives who want
J a Third Party, which will be a small
business mans and well-to-do farm
ers' party, and the industrial work
ers and poorer, exploited farmers,
will come to the May Both Con-
vention. The Federated Farmer-La-
Dor Party will stand for the inter-
csts of the industrial workers and
exploited farmers in the convention.
1t will carry on campaign to win
the support for the convention by
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exploited farmers, so that the can
didates and platform will represent
the interests Of this group, and not
the small business men and we'll
to-do farmers.
Shall Convention Be Delayed?
A proposal has been made by VIM.
Mahoney, chairman of the Working
Peoples Non-Partisan League of
Minnesota, after conferences with
La Toilette, Magnus johnson, Ship
stead, and others of the progress
sives, that the May Both Conven-
ton be postponed until after the
old party conventions.
The Federated Farmer Labor
Party is unalterably opposed to such
a delay. The only reason for such
a delay is to give the La Toilette,
Frazier, Brookhart, Magnus John
son and Shipstcad group an oppor-
tunity to see which way the cat will
jump in the old party conventions.
The industrial workers and ex-
| plotted farmers have no interest
in waiting for the old party con-
ventions. No matter who is NOM
mated in these conventions and what
platforms are adopted, the candidates
and platforms will be for IT, cap
italists and against the workers and
| farmers.
If La Toilette and other so-called
progressives are for the workers,
let them prove it by cutting loose
from the old parties and aligning
themselves with the Farmer-Labor
Party NOW. The workers and farm
ers have nothing to gain from back
stairs political deals. The road lies
clear before them.-TO ORGANIZE
A CLASS FARMER-LABOR PARTY.
Forward to the Glass Party.
The Federated Farmer-Labor Party
calls upon all workers organiza-
tons, all organizations of farm
ers, to join in the struggle for
a farmer-labor party representing the
interests Of the industrial workers
and exploited farmers.
It urges that every organization
of workers and farmers now begin
the work in support Of the May Both
Convention, and to make that con-
vention a great gathering of the ex-
plotted groups who suffer under the
rule of the big capitalists and their
government.
Forward to May Both and a ciass
Farmer-Labor Party! Forward in
the struggle which will bring the
Workers and Farmers Government
of the United Statesl
Federated Farmer-Labor Party,
JOSEPH MANLEY,
National Secretary