The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-18
Democratic Differences
Must Help Build Labor's
Class Political Action
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY new political aIgnments threatened in the
democratic party result of renewed efforts BY am
many Hall in New York City to tasten IT'S grip natonay
the duty Of the workers and farmers to take every pos
sbe advantage Of the divisions that may arse to preas new
of labor away from this political wing OF wall Streer
and to win them for independent political action.
Tammany Hall is in dominant position in the demo-
cratic party thru overwhelming victory in New
York City Tammanys recognized leader, Al Smith, presi-
Dental timber, slow to act He Immediately sent his
newly elected mayor, Jimmy Walker on holiday into the
Solid South The reception and entertainment provided at
Atlanta Georgia. under official democratic auspices, was
beyond expectations John S. Cohen the democratic national
committeeman did the honors successfully adding to the
occasion with editorial in his ATLANTA Constitution
one of the chief capitalist newspapers of the South The
editorial states the Tammany hopes when urges southern
the and throw in their lot with the conservative demo-
Gratis of the north and east.
This is an ambitious program The Tammany Hall out
fit it's following in New England the Taggart machine
in Indiana, and the Brennan organization in Illinois, present
wet Catholic front while the southern democracy is dry
and pro-kan These would look like insurmountabe differ
But evidently basis of operation has been
in both sections aided by the ndustrazaton of the SOUTH
with resultant influx of foreignborn. 1t is certainly to the
interests OF ammany Halls ambitions to stradde both the
liquor and religious issues nationally, thus overcoming this
obstacle What it may do locally is entirely different
story.
This north-east-south coalition the radical west
out in the cold The triumph of the former in national
convention must the splitting away of elements in the
west workers and farmers who have struggled to develop
their independent political various occasions in the
in congress- but of the states like Colorado and Mon
tana, have considerable industrial population, workers who
have fought militant struggles This is also true of WASH
ington and California
It is not accident that William Bouck president of the
Western Progressive Farmers of the Of Washington
for instance, is now planning tour of Montana. Evidently
Montana has had its fill Of Senator Walsh, chairman of last
years democratic national convention in Madison Square
Garden, in New York City. The for Senator Wheeler
who tried to break the famerabor Montana
part of his duties vicepesidenta candidate the
LaFoee ticket But the Montana farmer-abor movement
proved stronger than the Wheeler combination
The Ford myth has also evaporated the west
toward the clearing of the political Skies Thus farmer
labor conference has been held in Oklahoma while
are planned for Arkansas and Texas
Even the norheast-south alliance of democrats cannot
prove stable proposition. Tammany Hail. Taggart Bren-
build their power the foregn-bon and middle
class support thru pretense to radicasm AL Smith and
Hyan in New York. like Mayor Dever of Chicago always
parade as progressNes friends of labor The
alliance with the former slavehodng arstocracy of
south must unask this doubedeang aggregation that has
its Wall Street connections just surely republican
party, only in lesser degree
New political alignments pending. Class conscious
workers and farmers must to it that every possible ad
vantage taken OF all developments build for independent
political action OF the oppressed thru the formation of labor
party and the alliance OF the growing bloc Of exploited farm
ers with it.