The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-05
BIC CONVENTION
. is ENDORSED BY
DOWELL MINERS
Say 1t Is Best Reply to
Teapot Dome

DOWELL, ILL.,, April -Declar-
ing that the only fitting reply to the
Teapot Dome scandal is the organi.
cation Of powerful Farmer-Labor
party to wrest governmental power
from the capitalist crooks who now
control it and battle for a workers
and farmers government, Local
Union No. S70S Of the United Mine
Workers of America at Dowell, Illi-
rois, passed a resolution endorsing
the national Farmer Labor conven-
ton to be held in st. Paul on June
II, by the progressive forces in the
farmers and trade union organiza-
tons Of the United States.
The resolution is signed by Carl
Diliberto, president, and Mike Ska
rupa, recording secretary, and reads
as follows:
"The senate investigation of the
Teapot Dome oil leases shows that
the government of the United
States under both republican and
democratic administrations serves
the capitalists as an instrument for
looting the nation. Senators, cabi-
net officers, have been exposed as
the paid men of big capitalist oil in
terests and even presidents are not
immune from their influence. Fall,
DENLY, McAdoo, Daugherty, Lane,
Roosevelt; these are the names
which the workers and farmers of
this country have been asked to
honor but now they are all covered
with the slime of corruption and
graft.
"The Teapot Dome exposures only
prove again on a larger scale what
has been proven in this country hun
dreds of times; that the government
of the United States serves the in
terests of privileged class and is
the enemy of the workers and farm
ers who produce the wealth Of the
country. 1t proves again that not
one among the high and mighty of
the old parties is immune from the
corruption, grating and looting
thru which the capitalists take for
themselves the wealth of the nation.
1t proves again that the existing
system of industry and government
is part of one system Of special
privileges and exploitation thru
which the workers and farmers are
robbed of what they produce.
"There is only one answer to the
Teapot Dome and whole system Of
Teapot Domes, which is capitalism,
the organization of a Farmer-Labor
Party and the struggle for the
workers and farmers government.
Only Workers and Farmers gov
eminent will end the looting of the
nation by the capitalists. A great
mass Farmer-Labor Party must
carry on the struggle to establish
that workers and farmers govern
ment.
Whereas, A convention has been
called for June 18th, 1924, at St.
Paul, by the Farmer-Labor Party
of Minnesota, the Federated Farmer
Labor Party, the Farmer-Labor
Party of Washington, Montana and
South Dakota, and other organiza-
tions for the nomination of Farm
er-Labor candidate for president
and the adoption Of national plat
form, and this convention gives the
opportunity to create the mass
Farmer-Labor Party which will
carry on the fight for a Workers
and Farmers government.
Therefore, be it resolved. That
we, Local Union No. 1908, U. M.
w. of A., Dowell, Illinois, endorse
the June 18th, 1924, convention;
and
"Be it further resolved: That
copy of this resolution &c sent to
the "Ilhnois Miner" Federated
Press and the DAILY WORKER"