The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21

the VOTERS OIL MluueSOJd III INC AoA snS~A
The official statement of the Distri
During the past few months
much has been said Of the activ-
tiles of the Workers Party by
both the capitalist newspapers
and the more conservative sup
porters of the Farmer-Labor
Party. We, therefore, take this
opportunity of telling the work
ers and farmers of Minnesota
exactly what the aims Of the
Communist movement are.
WORKERS AND FARMERS Elk
PLOTTED.
The financial interests of this coun-
try are ruthlessly exploiting both the
farmers and the industrial workers.
During the past few years millions Of
farmers have been driven from the
land because they were not able to
secure from their labor enough to
supply their families with the neces-
sites of life. Millions of other farmers
will be forced to follow the same
course unless they take militant
stand against this exploitation by the
privileged capitalist class. Instead of
the present government taking steps
to relieve the farmers, those in con-
troll are using their political power
further to fatten the pockets Of their
masters, the grain gamblers, the bank
ers and the railroad magnates.
During the same period of time,
this same capitalist class, working
under the guise of "open shop asso-
ciations," has launched bitter at
tack against the workers in the cities.
Taking advantage of the industrial
depression, it has cut wages, length
ened hours of labor, and seriously
weakened the labor unions by its at
tacks. In every strike, the govern
ment has allied itself with the finan-
ciaI interests. 1t has used the police,
the militia, and the courts to force the
workers back into the workshops and
mines. Injunctions against the work
ers are an every day occurance. The
n m Daugherty Injunction
against the railroad workers still
stands an injunction which at one
stroke robbed the workers Of every
right supposedly guaranteed by the
constitution.
The Republican and Democratic
Parties have proven themselves equal
ly the tools of the financial interests
of Wall Street. They have both con-
tributed their share toward maintain
ing the dictatorship of organized cap
ital over the lives of the producing
masses.
THE WORKERS AND FARMERS
MUST RULE.
The first task confronting the farm
ers and workers is to establish them
selves as the ruling power in govern
ment The control of the financial in
terests must be broken. A workers
and farmers government must be es-
tablished.
The greatest enemy of the farmers
and workers is the group Of financial
parasites who live off their labor.
The Workers Party is an organiza-
ton made up entirely of farmers and
workers, pledged to the abolition of
the capitalist system of society and
the establishment of workers and
farmers government. 1t carries on its
activities entirely in the open. 1t
has no interests; it adopts no poll
cies that are not in the interests of
the producing masses of the world.
The Workers Party is for the Farm
er-Labor Party. We will do our ut
most to build and strengthen the par
ty in every state in the union. We do
this because we recognize that the
Farmer-Labor Party can gather the
masses Of the workers and farmers
inside its ranks and that by necessity
it must carry on a struggle against
the capitalist class. The aim of the
Communist Movement is more far
reaching than the platform and pro-
gram of the Farmer-Labor Party. The
Farmer-Labor Party contents itself
with demanding temporary remedial
reforms. The Workers Party and its
candidates will fight aggressively for
every measure which affords relief
from capitalist exploitation. They will
use every effort to bring about the
adoption of the measures proposed
in the platform of the Farmer-Labor
Federation of Minnesota. They will
strive to build UP and strengthen the
Farmer-Labor Federation in an eff
fort TO develop it into real fighting
machine against the financial inter-
ests.
REFORMS NOT A SOLUTION.
The platform Of the Farmer-Labor
Federation does not offer permanent
solution for the problems confronting
the workers and farmers. The pres
ent bankruptcy of the farmers and
the chronic unemployment develop
ing among the workers are worldwide
symptoms OF the cancer eating at the
heart of society. The cancer is capt.
talism. The workers and farmers of
England, France, Germany, thruout