The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-10
MINNESOTA'S RALLY TO BENTALL
SCARES THE STEEL TRUST MAGNATES
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gress" clubs are springing up all
over this district. The poor
farmers and workers realize that
the capitalists have succeeded in
pretty nearly running the north
western party of the country
and their malicious attacks on
the Communists therefore lose
their punch.
An editorial in the Hibbing Daily
News indicates the Importance at
tached to Bentall's fight and the re
gard in which he is held by the PEG
pie of that district. The paper says
"The Hibbing contingent of the
Farmer-Labor party is not to stand
as solid voting unit for Kleffman
for congress, Notwithstanding the
rather extravagant claims made by
the boosters Of the Chisholm candi-
date.
"Out of the local party there has
been organized 'Bentall for Con-
gress' club and it is already func-
tioning in a way that looks danger
GUS to the hope of the candidate
from our little neighbor to the
north. Just what prompted the To-
cal opposition we are not prepared
to say, but it is there and those who
have membership in the Bentall
club are exerting themselves to
their utmost to turn the farmer-la-
Dor vote in his direction.
"Bentall is a force that must be
reckoned with in the Farmer-Labor
party thruout this district. First of
all, he is an able exponent of the
things the party stands for, and he
is a fluent and convincing speaker
with a degree of personal magnet
ism that is compelling-and he is a
martyr of the cause as we'll, having
served a prison term for his views
on the freedom of speech, views
that were in sore discord with those
of the Minnesota public safety COM
mission"
Minneapolis Approves.
~. o. Bentall," says the Minneapolis
Labor Review, lis honored, respected
and admired by the workers as per
haps no other man in the state" The
campaign committee of the Workers
party in selecting Bentall as candt
date to present to the voters In the
primary elections on the Farmer-La.
Dor party ticket, picked one who has
made good among the farmers and
industrial workers in the state and
stands high in the estimation of pro
gressive workers turnout the nation
Bentall was born in Sweden, and at
an early age came with his parents to
Minnesota. He was educated in Garlic
ton college and Chicago University
He was an editor on the Chicago Daily
Socialist and later of Truth, published
in Duluth, MINI.
Opposed Capitalist War.
Before the war in 1914 he worked
on the farm, but during that period
of hysteria he was arrested, tried and
to a period of Imprisonment
in Leavenworth for his stand against
the capitalist war. On his release he
was welcomed by the city council of
Minneapolis. by the Trades and Labor
Assembly, the World War Veterans
and hosts Of workers and farmers.
While running in the primaries on
the Farmer-Labor ticket as a Com
munist, Comrade Bentall is careful to
point out that the platform of the
Farmer-Labor Federation offers no
permanent solution for the problems
the working class. The
Workers party is for the Farmer-La-
Dor Federation because it gathers the
masses together for the struggle
against the capitalists and the Com
munists will support every measure
that promises even temporary relief
for the workers while urging the
overthrow of capitalism and the es-