The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-14
St. Paul Labor Reveals
Black Reaction That Is
Supporting La Toilette
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.
TODAY LaFoIette the grain and corn belt on the
west side Of the Mississippi Valley.
demand Of the Wisconsin senator explanation
that his loyal henchmen tried commit against the Farmer
Labor Party in Minnesota.
The DAILY WORKER today publishes the story Of how
the Lar GILLETTE political gangsters tried deliver Ramsay
County (St Pau FameLabor forces into the hands Of
the most corrupt elementsthe OConnor gangn the de-
mocratic party, now without home of its
LaFoIIette telling his audiences that his campaign
fund is small because of the meager contributions coming
in from the people," His ST. Paul headquarters however,
to have established valuable connections Note these
The offices Of the ST. Paul LaFostte headquarters, with
$375 per month RENTAL are donated by the Hamm Brew
The office furniture is the contribution Of the "open
shop Louis F. Dow Co., scab office supply dealers, whose
printers have been strike for two years.
Heat and light is the donation Of the Northern States
Power Co., Minnesota subsidiary of the Byesby
opoy, with headquarters in New York
The Bell Telephone trust supplies the phone.
The democratic state headquarters furnishes the steno
- THIS IS The ST PAUL HEADQUARTERS Of IA.
TRUSTS; TAKING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE PHONE
AND POWER COMBINES
All these facts the black reaconist Frank r. Starkey
LaFolee agent in the ST Paul labor movement, tried to
hide from the rank and file of the workers.
was this same LaFOIette agent star<ey who did his
Conference held at ST. PAUL. carrying out the CompersLa
Toilette policy Of seeking divide and destroy militant
forces Of the workers demanding class political action
Starkey failed on June II. He led lone bolt His
corrupt leadership received another blow Sunday when
the rank and ers at the meeting OF the Ramsay County
The rank and file of the workers handed the doube-deang
LaFoete campaign black eye and the job performed was
good one.
Labor in St Paul has shown that is not blinded by
the LaFoette Illusion It has shown that it will not willingly
Submit to the LaFoIette betrayal 1t the plain duty
Of the ST. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly endorse the
action Of the Ramsay County FarmerLabOr Federation,
offlCeS
Toilette headquarters, and returning them to the Labor
Temples where they belong. The best time fight for the
class party is during the campaign The alliances that the
LaFoete forces making inoMnnesota, in Montana,
everywhere best show the of the that
backing the Wisconsin senator.
In New York State the LaFoIette campaign the sup
porter of AL Smith, the Tammany Hall governor who has
accepted John WaIstreet Davis, the Morgan lawyer.
In Illinois the LaFolette boosters urging Len Small
back of the candidacy "The StriEebreaker" Coolidge
In Montana, the LaFoIette Wheeler ticket fights the
FarmeLabor Party and hopes for the reelection of u S.
Senator Walsh permanent chairman of the national demo-
cratic convention.
And in Minnesota the LaFoIette forces ally themselves
with the OConnor democrats, bitter enemies of the class
party of the workers and farmers and allies in every crisis
of the bankers landlords and grain gamblers in the republic
can party.
That is the situation is only four states.
It is duplicated greater extent, in every
in the nation where the LaFoee campagners active
us oydd picture rs & t black ouU " 5 But
strength be dsspated among the political expressions of
the propered interests, whether led by Coolidge Davis
LaFoIette.
The only clear working note in this presidential
campaign is sounded by the Communists.
In ST. Paul the rank and file of the FarmerLabor Feder
alton epudiated the LaFoette offering Oscar Keller
publican candidate for congress in the fourth district
These workers endorsed the candidate of the Farmer
Labor Party, F. Emme Communist, selected in the
primaries.
Minnesota's workers forward in spite of their
seades Labor prepares for the fight in spite Of the
LaFoIette betrayal Labor struggles own efforts
for its emancipation.