The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-25
FARMERS RALLY
TO RED TICKET
Fake ProgressiVes are
Scored
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as dead as the proverhial dodo and
Mr.. Townley, who was once hailed
as the saviour of the masses, is GO
ing around with his nose to the
earth smelling for hidden oil veins
in the wide-open spaces of the Da-
kotas. The farmers had a costly
lesson in non-partisan politics.
Fake Progressives.
After the collapse of the nom
partisan bubble the poor farmers
turned to the farmer-labor party
but owing to the backsliding of the
fake labor progressives who orig
inally supported the movement, and
the return of the alleged progress
sive farm leaders to the republican
and democratic parties, there is now
little left of that movement.
The farmers of North Dakota as
well as of the surrounding states are
now turning to the Workers Com
munist) Party for political leader
ship. The republican party has per-
sistently refused to give them any
relief, Coolidge vetoing even the
watery McNary- Haugen bill and
Hoover pledging himself to carry
out the Coolidge policies. Al Smith,
the democratic candidate, the other
Wall Street candidate, is trying to
win the farmers vote with vague
promises that he will do something
for them after election.
The socialist party is only little
to the left of the democratic party
on the farming problem. 1t favors
the McNary-Haugen bill which AL
Smith also supports in principle. It
favors the cooperation of the fed
eral government with farm organ
izations to eliminate the uncertain
income of the farmer and reducing
the number of middlemen who levy
tribute on the farmers products. 1t
favors federal insurance against
drouth, hail, storm and flood.
There is no more hope for the
farmers in the socialist party pro-
gram than in the programs of the
republican and democratic parties,
The National Platform of the
Workers (Communist) Party after
analyzing the plight of the farmer,
placing the blame of his condition
on the Shoulders of trust, monopoly.
calls on the farmers to break off
their alliance with the bankers and
other factors of big business and
most form an alliance with the
working class. The fate of the
anaemic McNary- Haugen relief
bill' is given as proof that they can
expect nothing except kicks from
the political parties of Wall Street.
The Workers (Communist) Party
only correctly diagnoses the farm
ers' ills and prescribes the right
remedy. The Workers Party pro-
gram on the farm question follows:
1. A five-year moratorium on
farm mortgage debts, including
debts on chattels.
2. Protection of the working
farmer against monopoly prices.
Essential lowering of the prices of
all trust products which the farm
er uses.
3. Protection of the farmer
against special exploitation by dis
tributing agencies of production, by
railroads, meat packers, milk trusts,
and grain elevator combines.
a. Federal law for the creation of
a special farm relief fund of ST.
000,000,000 to relieve the conditions
of the tenant and mortgaged farm
ers, the fund to be administered by
organization of working farmers.
5. Federal law against forced
farm foreclosures.
g. Abolition of all federal and To-
cal taxes on working and tenant
farmers.
z. The land to belong to its users.
8. Complete freedom to organize
and strike for the agricultural
workers. Federal law to guarantee
seven-hour maximum working day
and 48-hour weekly rest for all
agricultural workers. Yearly vaca-
ton with pay for all farm laborers.
Extension to agricultural workers
of all benefits of social insurance
and labor protection legislation de-
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