The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-06-13
June II After La Toilette
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Bv C. E. Ruthenberg

mated, the way is open for the orga-
nization on June 18th OF a class
Farmer-Labcr Party.
WILL REPRESENT
ORGANIZED WORKERS
AND FARMERS
The June 18th Convention will still |
represent from a half-milliOn TO a |
million organized workers and farm |
ers, there can be welded mass class |
Farmer-Labor Party with platform
which will clearly express the econ
omic interests of the producers OF
wealth on the land and the producers
of wealth in the mines, mills and fac
tories in this country.
WILL MAKE PARTY
STRONGER
Such a party will be stronger than
a party of double the size made up
of Heterogeneous elements with differ
ent economic interests. The grouping
together in one Party of j. A. ii.
Hopkins and dad" Walker of North
Dakota would not have added
strength to the Farmer-Labor Party
1t wcEld have meant weakness
rather than strength. Robert M. La
Toilette, the representative Of small
business in the Senate and William
Bouck, the leader of the farmers of
Washington, have nothing in common.
They represent different economic
caregories, and to try to unite them
in a political party would have been
to create the conditions for splits and
confusion and whitening away of the
whole movement.
But William Bouck, Tom Ayres,
dad" Walker, W. H. Green, William
Mahoney, the rank and file of the
Farmer-LabOr movement and the
Communists can form a Farmer-La-
bor Federation with a program of
action in the interests of the exploit
| ed farmers and workers and build
upon this program a solid mass Move
ment against the domination of Wall
! Street in the government cf the
United States.
COALITION
AND PARTY
LaFOllette's attack on June 18th
mas also made near the definite for
nation Of a national Farmer-Labor
Party at the June 18th Convention.
MAKES FOR CLEAN-CUT
PROGRAM
Without this stripping away Of the
non armer-Labor elements which
has taken place as a result of LaFol-
lette's statement, there would have
been a strong argument for a coali-
ton rather than a Party. J. A. H.
Hopkins and his group wcEld have
been a foreign elements in the body
Of the Farmer-LabOr movement. To
endeavor to make unit of such diff
ferent elements would have been dan
gerous. With these elements remov-
ed, there remains the material for q
strong party organization.
The reaction on the part of the
state Farmer-Labor Parties to La
Fcllette's statement shows in itself
their attitude on his question. The
state Farmer-Labor parties are fol
organization of a national Farmer
Labor Party. They want a party
which will go on from this fight tt
the next fight and continue the fight
until the struggle against Wall Street
: control of the American government
is wen and a Workers. and Farmers
/. Government is established.
LA TOILETTE STATEMENT
, CLARIFIES SITUATION
The June 18th Convention, befor,
Z La Follette's statement, presented
z many dangers and difficulties. 1t haC
; within it the elements which NIGH
have made the organization of /;
, strong political party to fight tn,
battles of the farmers and industrial
: workers impossible. La FOllette's at
tack has removed many of these diff
ficulties. The road is now clear fo
the Farmer-LabOr movement u
march forward. The way is open TO
! the organization of that mass clas
Farmer-Labor Party on June 18th up
! on which hundreds Of thousands O
! industrial workers and exploite,
farmers have placed their hopes 70
relief from the unbearable condition
: to which the exploiting class subject
; them.
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