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Oklahoma, Missouri, Washington, the Dakotas, and elsewhere. The national organization continued under the leadership of National Chairman W.M. Piggott and National Secretary Bert Miller. The group's 1920 Presidential candidate, Parley Parker Christensen, attended the Dec. 12, 1924, meeting of the National Committee of the Conference for Progressive Political Action and was made a member of the committee of arrangements for the CPPA's forthcoming February 21–22, 1925, conference. A Convention of the loyal members of the Farmer–Labor Party was called for that same time and place, where it aimed to cooperate with the CPPA in the formation of a labor party.
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Farmer–Labor Party. In response, the convention was adjourned and the Farmer–Labor Party delegates went into a closed caucus. This caucus returned with a resolution proposing to exclude the Workers Party from the conference and to ask the conference to accept the 1921 program and constitution of the Farmer–Labor Party without changes. This proposal was made on the floor of the conference by
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and William Bouck, respectively. The National Committee of the FLP met in Cleveland on July 4 and elected delegates to the Conference for Progressive Political Action. W.M. Piggott of Utah was re-elected as National Chairman and Bert Martin of Denver as National Secretary. On July 10, 1924, after the
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The July 1923 Conference of the FLP was attended by approximately 540 delegates. The Workers Party seems to have made every effort to capture a majority at the gathering. At the convention itself, it used a disciplined caucus system, with groups of ten on the floor led by a group captain. The Workers
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An effort was made by some members of the Farmer–Labor Party of the United States to merge the convention of the FLP with that of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, an attempt which was unsuccessful. This group also attempted to remove all national political parties from the convention
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The demise of the Federated Farmer–Labor Party did not mean an end to the Farmer–Labor Party movement, however. The regular Farmer–Labor Party continued to exist at the state level, with state and local organizations in Minnesota, Colorado, Utah, Illinois, Kentucky, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania,
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A Conference of the Farmer–Labor Party was held in St. Paul on March 11–12, 1924, at which it was decided to hold its next National Convention on June 17 in that same city. A convention call was issued for that gathering, which called for farmer, labor, and political organizations to send delegates
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The notion of a "Federated Farmer–Labor Party" closely paralleled the organizational ideal for a third party then currently being advanced, the Socialist Party—an organization modelled upon the British Labour Party to which political organizations (like the WPA and the SPA) might affiliate without
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made a speech in which he asked the Farmer–Labor Party delegates what they wanted, stating that any concessions would be agreed to save the sacrifice of a federated Farmer–Labor Party itself. Five out of seven seats on the National Executive Committee of the new organization were offered to the
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In March 1923, the Farmer–Labor Party of Chicago broke away from the CPPA and decided to proceed to the immediate formation of a national Farmer–Labor political organization. Circa May, over the signature of J.G. Brown of the Farmer–Labor Party of the United States there was issued a call for a
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wrote to the National Committee asking for a vote on the question of holding a convention on July 4 at Cleveland. This convention was not called. Brown resigned as National Secretary, to be replaced on a temporary basis by Robert M. Buck, who soon resigned as well. National Chairman
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endorsement of La Follette by the CPPA at Cleveland, a majority of the National Executive Committee withdrew the nominations of MacDonald and Bouck and pledged support to an independent campaign of the Workers Party. By the end of 1924, the Federated FLP had ceased to exist.
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strategy. The Socialist Party on the other hand, was extremely hesitant. The SPA carefully considered this matter at its May 19–23, 1923, New York Convention before declining to participate in the FLP Convention, instead seeing the CPPA as the vehicle for a new Labor Party.
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There was pressure placed on the Farmer–Labor Party to purge itself of Communists and to postpone its next convention until July 4, 1924, so that it might meet jointly with that of the Conference for Progressive Political Action. On March 18, 1924, National Secretary
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losing their independent organizational identity. The Socialist Party sought the establishment of an American "Labor Party" via the CPPA—and failed. The Workers Party successfully "captured" the Farmer–Labor Party organization, only to lose the allegiance of the
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provided that they subscribed to a five-point "tentative program" that called for public ownership, government banking, public control of all natural resources, restoration of civil liberties, and the abolition of the use of the injunction in labor disputes.
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The June 1924 Convention of the Farmer–Labor Party (in which the Federated Farmer–Labor Party participated as a member organization) was attended by over 500 delegates representing 26 states. The convention discussed the upcoming run of Sen.
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for president. La Follette, a bitter opponent of the Workers Party of America, did not seek the endorsement of the convention, which proceeded to nominate its own candidates for President and Vice President of the United
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met with a sub-committee of the Farmer–Labor Party. These two small groups agreed that if sufficient workers should be represented by delegates to the July 3 Conference, the Farmer–Labor Party should be supplanted by a
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caused agricultural prices and workers' wages to fall, while retail prices rose sharply during the war years. Consequently, farmers and workers made common cause in the political sphere to redress their grievances.
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One important gathering that was a precursor to the establishment of a national Farmer–Labor Party was the Cooperative Congress, held in Chicago on February 12, 1920. The gathering included participants from the
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wrote the song "I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister," in which he sings, "Take the two old parties, mister,/No difference in them I can see./But with a Farmer-Labor party,/We will set the workers free."
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from voters of the 19 states in which the Farmer–Labor Party was on the ballot. Also during the 1920 election, the Farmer–Labor Party candidate for the United States Senate in Washington state,
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Party delegates to the July 3 Conference were guided by a steering committee of the Central Executive Committee. During debate on the organization plan at the conference,
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C.E. Ruthenberg, "Report of the Central Executive Committee," in The Second Year of the Workers Party of America. (Chicago: Literature Department, WPA, 1924), pp. 18–19.
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C.E. Ruthenberg, "Report of the Central Executive Committee," in The Second Year of the Workers Party of America. (Chicago: Literature Department, WPA, 1924), pg. 17.
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The Farmer–Labor Party continued to exist as a successful state party in Minnesota until 1944, when it merged with the Democratic Party of that state to form the
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1918–1941. .11 cubic foot plus 10 items. Contains records from Bouck's running as vice president of the United States on the Farmer-Labor ticket. At the
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for President of the United States. Christensen finished particularly strongly in Washington, netting over 77,000 votes in that state alone. In total,
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This group includes only pre-1996 parties that fielded a candidate that won greater 0.1% of the popular vote in at least one presidential election
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The Workers Party gained a majority for its program and established a "Federated Farmer–Labor Party" at this convention. Structural iron worker
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received 25% of the vote, coming in second place. This was the best performance by the Farmer–Labor Party in a state election outside
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There were subsequent attempts to reconstitute a national Farmer–Labor Party into the 1930s, without the participation of either the
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campaigned as the Farmer–Labor Party candidate in a few states. In neither election did the party receive more than 8,000 votes.
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Solon DeLeon and Nathan Fine (eds.), The American Labor Year Book, 1925. (NY: Rand School of Social Science, 1925), pp. 145–148
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Darg, Philip Lloyd, "The Farmer-Labor Party In Minnesota Politics: 1918-1948" (PhD dissertation, U of North Dakota 2015).
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call—the intended effect being to exclude the Workers (Communist) Party from participation. This effort failed as well.
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In July 1920, the Labor Party of the United States changed its name to the Farmer–Labor Party. It nominated Utah lawyer
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in 1922 but ran for Montana Senate under the Farmer-Labor Party and was an editor for the Farmer-Labor Party newspaper
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This article is about the national Farmer–Labor Party of the United States. For the Minnesota branch of the party, see
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The 1922 Convention of the Farmer–Labor Party was attended by 72 delegates, representing organizations in 17 states.
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strike in Bridgeport developed into a Labor Party in five Connecticut towns in the summer of 1918 and the powerful
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In November 1921, as part of a lengthy world tour, Parley Parker Christensen obtained two interviews with
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in Moscow. The official organ of the Farmer–Labor Party was a newspaper published in Chicago called
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Cravens, Hamilton. "The Emergence of the Farmer–Labor Party in Washington Politics, 1919-1920,"
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Radicalism in the States: The Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party and the American Political Economy.
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One primary contributing stream to the Farmer–Labor movement was the Labor Party movement. An
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at various times by four Farmer-Labor senators, either for full terms or partial terms:
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Willis Fletcher Johnso, Roscoe C. E. Brown, Walter Whipple Spooner, and Willis Holly,
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or the Socialist Party. Frank Webb was the remnant party's candidate in 1928. For the
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Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.
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Montgomery, David. "The Farmer–Labor Party," in Paul Buhle and Alan Dawley, editors,
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In the middle of June 1923, a subcommittee of the Central Executive Committee of the
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Delegates of First National Convention of the Labor Party, 1919, Chicago, Illinois
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Early American Marxist History] website, Corvallis, OR. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
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The Grassroots Labor Parties of 1919–1920: A Missed Opportunity for Labor,
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James Oneal, American Communism, (NY: Rand Book Store, 1927), pp. 168–169.
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as National Secretary and headquarters were moved from Chicago to Denver.
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James Oneal, American Communism, (NY: Rand Book Store, 1927), pg. 162.
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The Farmer–Labor Party sent delegates to the second conference of the
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wrote lyrics for a song "Farmer-Labor Train" with the tune from the "
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Stanley Shapiro, "Hand and Brain: The Farmer–Labor Party of 1920,"
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during the 1940 election and served another term as a Republican)
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of July 22–25, 1948, which nominated former U.S. Vice President
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History of the State of New York: Political and Governmental.
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Labor and Farmer Parties in the United States, 1828 - 1928.
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During the same period, Minnesota was represented in the
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Farmer–Labor Party (1918–1924): Organizational History,"
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only received 15,086 votes versus 151,246 for Socialist
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Minnesota Farmer-Laborism: The Third Party Alternative.
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attended the proceedings as fraternal delegates of the
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in the United States emerged in Minnesota in 1918. The
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The party dissolved in 1936 and was succeeded by the
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American Workers from the Revolution to the Present.
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Parley P. Christensen
Christensen received over 265,000 votes
C. L. France

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