The producers news., 1930-10-10
FRIDAY OCTOBER 10, 1880
BUILD THE FARMER-LABOR
PARTY

The stock market crash which took place last
November marked the definite turning point in the
period of American imperalist prosperity that car
ried Herbert Hoover to the presidency its crest
with the greatest majority of popular votes ever
cast for any candidate for the highest office in the
land.
Hardly black cloud appeared in the political
skv when the "Great Engineer" installed himself
in the White House. The wheels of industry were
humming with the exception of the mining and
textile industries their was hardly any industrial
unrest; the officials of the American Federation
of Labor were committed irrevocably to the policy
of collaboration with the employing classes; the
class struggle was considered buried and it appear
ed if the capitalist ruling classes had succeeded
in convincing the in the industries and in
agriculture that the capitalist system set
and Interchangeable the stars in the armament.
Only students of Socialist economics followers of
Marx and Lenin held to the conviction that capi-
talism like every other preceding system of society
held within itself the germs of its own decay and
would sooner or later go to pieces because of its
inner contractions. Only those who saw in the
Soviet Union living challenge to the capitalist
system held aoft the banner of revolt against the
robber system of capitalism.
The stock market was not the forerunner of in
dustrial depression in the United States. 1t was
the tombstone that marked the interment of the
dead body Following the crash unemploy-
ment. Millions were thrown out of work. Millions
of the middle class were ruined by the collapse of
their paper fortunes built up during the rising tide
of prosperity. The falling of the price of farm
products added several millions of farmers to the
army of the ruined.
Then swift change took place in the psycholo-
gy of the masses "Hoover prosperity" no longer
was term TO be conjured with but one that
politicians who sang in the prosperity chorus
broke ranks and began catering to the growing
radical mood of the people. So-called Democratic
and Republican progressives leaped off the pros
perity bandwagon They would place themselves
at the head of the wave of discomfort and lead it
safely into another capitalist outlet.
The Democratic Party which shares with its
bigger brother the Republican Party the task of
holding the workers and farmers in line the
capitalist Glass; took advantage of the situation to
make bid for a majority in the two houses of
congress with an eye to the presidency in 1892
With no political organization of workers and
farmers to offer serious opposition, the Democrat
c Party bids fair to realize its aim The interests
Of Wall Street are just as safe in the hands of the
Democratic Party as in the hands of the Republi-
can Party.
The Socialist Party has lost all claim to consid-
eration as Party having for its aim the over
throw of capitalism and the establishment of a
Socialist Commonwealth Like its sister parties in
Europe it has degenerated into reform party
that would bolster up the decaying capitalist sys-
tenn 1t would reform the capitalist ticket by clip
ping his claws. The Socialist Party is hand anC
glove with the reactonary officials of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor and vies with those reac
tiOnary tools of the employers in making war OF
the radicals and slandering the Soviet Union. i
is today competing with the Democratic Party fo
the favors of the American ruling class
The need of the hour today is political part.
of industrial and farm labor having for its ain
the abolition of the capitalist system and the sub
stitution therefore of system that will give t
the producing classes the full social value of thei
products. In other words Socialist system of So
ciety. The time has come when the producer
must not be frightened by terms. They must fac
realities and the they face the fact that n
amount of tinkering with the capitalist systel
make it fit to serve their interests the soone
will they be relieved of the nightmare of men
ployment, want and war that hangs over thel
today like DamOcles sword. The party tn,
holds out the most promise for the breakin
away of the masses from the parties of capitals
IN the immediate future and thru which they ca
develop their fighting efficiency for the final al
is the Farmer-Labor Party.
The platform of the Farmer-Labor Party
Montana, published in this pamphlet is one ,
which every militant farmer and worker can sta1
and make united fight for the betterment of t
conditions of the producing classes. The canC
dates on the ticket of the Farmer-Labor Party a
not running for office with the expectation that
eleced they can achieve miracles. They know th
as long as Wall Street is in power thru the elt
ton of either of its two parties nothing of a
Importance can be accomplished for the mass
They know that the power lies outside, in the fl
tories, mines, railroads and on the farms and I
inside in the "gas houses" of capitalism. TIL
are pledged if elected TO use their offices as pl
forms from which to sound the clarion call
struggle, to educate the people and to encoura
them to organize politically and industrially alo
class lines for the solution of their problems
The executive committee of the Farmer-I.a al
Party of Montana urges every worker and farm
to read this program carefully, TO support
ticket and to help organize every militant worl
and exploited farmer into the ranks of the Far
er-Labor Party. This Party is today only in
infancy But the time is ripe for the growth
such party and have no doubt but it will
velop in this period of economic depression eau
Aby the failure of the capitalist system to sup
the needs of the great majority Of the people.