Show FARMER FARMED NOT AID IN ORS A N k OF THIRD international labor unions i excluded from lafollette convention all except own followers I 1 RADICALS IN POWER BAN SOIL TILLERS blacklist includes include 3 their defenders in congress lafollette was entered in the race tor for president by an aggregation of national and international labor un iino the public and particularly the farmer had bad no voice whatever in his so called nomination there has exist eol for over three years an org organization a niza tion 1 known as the conference for progressive political action composed of 16 or IS 18 national and international labor unions the majority of the them in railway labor organizations the officers of this conference for progressive political action tire nrc on the whole the national and a al officers of the labor organizations composing the conference the chairman or president of tills this conference Is william johnston president of the international machinists union and the director of the railroad strike in 1922 1022 mr johnston was recently candidate for governor of rhode island on the socialist ticket the headquarters of this conference Is in the machinists ts bull building oling washington D C Q a building owned by the international machinists this conference held its annual meeting in st louis in february 1024 adopted a platform pledged Itself to launch a third party and adjourned to meet in cleveland july 4 for or that purpose the convention in cleveland on july 4 was therefore nothing but the alie adjourned meeting of the conference for progressive political action the delegates to the cleveland convention wore merely delegates from the labor organizations comprising the conference tor for progressive political action plus a few scattering delegates front from tile the socialist party and a few radical organizations such its as the league for industrial democracy the conference for progressive political action action established its own rules regarding ga whom it would admit as delegates and these rules were so trained framed that no one not in hearty accord with the views of the labor organizations comprising the conference ans admitted out of approximately delegates less than 25 were farmers or representatives of allege tanner farmer oi organizations the otric officers ers of the Confere conference tice for rolI political action were the olli cers of the convention william johnstun johnston socialist leader was the temporary and also the permanent chairman after organizing the convention a resolution was drawn up and sent to senator lafollette asking lint him to lend lead in n fight for a third party not abnot a single farmer or representative of a bona fide former farmer organization signed this pet petition Idon the so called platform adopted at tills convention otters offers absolutely nothing to the farmer it consisted practically altogether of a recital of tile the alleged grievances of organized labor and a demand for the enactment of their legislative pr program not n farmer wits was a member of any of the committees of tills this convention neither the committee on resolutions nor credentials nor organization nor nominations the chairman of each of these committees was an official of some international ter labor organization the personnel of these committees were either officials high in international ill railway labor organizations or officials hah high in the socialist party and other radical organizations the convention went on record in behalf of the candidacy of La lafollette Pollette La was officially notified of his nomination by a committee appointed by samuel gompers of the american federation of labor and no member ol of tills this committee was a farmer lafollette acknowledged ills his nomination in the form of a letter addressed not to the of the united states or the farmers of the united states but to tile lie american federation of labor the campaign committee handling the la lafollette follett e wheeler movement Is the national committee of the conference for progressive political action plus a number of socialists socialism the addition of socialists to this committee was demanded by the socialist party as the price of their support ot of the ticket this demand was made at a meeting of the committee held in washington july 21 at which time representatives of the socialist party were present and insisted that they be given 10 per cent ot of the committee their demand was granted there Is an executive committee of 10 I 1 handling the inside stuff of the la follette csini palen no farm ariu er Is on tills this committee the campaign heal headquarters quarters of the laviollette wheeler Wh etler movement Is machinists Wits washington hington D C the conference for Progress he political action issues ti weekly v linn ion known as aa labor the fanner tons lias no part in ll it it li Is managed and edited wholly by representatives ot of labor organization it Is their 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