The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-29
FARMERS
AND THE ELECTIONS

fpledge the idea of the class struggle
altogether.
/ 1t is therefore of great importance
that the one Party in the United
States that is holding aloft the ban
ner of the class struggle has decided
to participate actively in the coming
election. l refer to our Party, the
Workers (Communist) Party of
America.
On the questions of unemployment,
the miners struggle, the agricultural
crisis, Nicaragua and China, the
Soviet Union, it is the one Party that
speaks straight out, gives the un-
vanished facts and bases its analysis
upon the fundamental interests of the
4 farmers and workers. All other par
ties are either openly espousing the
capitalist cause or else they are pus-
syfooting and very timidly speaking
for the workers interests-tactics
and methods of struggle which can
only play directly into the hands of
the capitalists
! This is illustrated quite plainly in
the agricultural situation. We have
numerous farm organizations like the
Farm Bureau and the Farmers
Union, farm organizations so-called,
but which are simply adjuncts to the
capitalist system and in every poll
teal campaign they line up with the
capitalist political parties. They mis-
lead the farmers by making them be-
lieve that the farmers will be helped
by electing republicans and demo-
erats.
The "progressives" in congress,
who hail from the great west, the
principal farming region of the coun-
try, are strong" for farm relief but
not for the exploited farmers and
are very much afraid to fight the
robbers who are responsible for the
farmers plight. These politicians
are good go-betweens for the we'll
to-do farmers and banks and grain
combine and the Wall Street CAPT
talists. They hold the farmers in line
so they won't rebel.
The political issues that must be
raised now in the farming section is
not the McNary- Haugen bill, which
is merely capitalist maneuver to ap-
pease the capitalist, but such basic
issues as land for the users, nation
alization for the marketing system,
. a farmers credit system, political
and economic alliance between the
farmers and the city workers and a
workers and farmers government.
Only one political party in the
country stands for these things and
that is the Workers Party. The
Farmers Union, the Farm Bureau
and the "progressives," and the So
cialist party are against this pro-
gram. They merely fight for CAPT
talist remedies which are useless to
the farmer, being only temporary
measures, and in the end Meaningless
and of no real value.
, The farmers of America will find
, in this political campaign that the
, Communist Party is the one Party
that is strictly for the exploited farm
Ell and at all times can be depended
upon to stand with them in their
fight against the banks and the grain
and cotton thieves.
We expect, and rightly so, that the
Communist Party in the present poll
tical campaign will train its guns
particularly against the psoudo-pro-
gressiye element and establish itself
securely as the Party which is cham
pioning the cause of the millions of
landless farmers and farm workers in
the farming west and other sections
: of the country.
This is a big job but the Party will
do it. In the 1928 political cam
paign we can make a good start. Let's
make the most Of the situation and
. dive into the campaign with the
greatest energy and enthusiasm.