The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-08
PLOT TO
STEAL VICTORY
OF COMMUNIST
Start Recount Of Vote
for 'YOungdaM
lspeoIaI 70 lhe oaIIy w0rksrl

MINNEAPOLIS, Mln1., Dec.
1.-THE election machinery Of
capitalist democracy is under
fire in the 35th Minnesota Iegis-
lative district by the recount
starting now.
Emil S. Youngdahl, Commun-
ist candidate in the recent cleo
ton was declared defeated on
the official count after his cleo
ton to the state legislature had
been conceded by the daily
papers which gave him a major
ity of approximately 500 votes.
In the official returns he was
declared defeated by $50 votes.
Show How Results Vary.
A careful check was made by party
omrades on the night Of the election
nd in half dozen election districts
he figures reported by them was at
,reat variance from those contained
the official count.
In one district the report showed
hat Comrade Youngdahl received 40
more votes than the official count
gives him. In one precinct he received
but 80 votes in the primary election.
In the general election comrade was
detailed to watch this precinct and
the result was that his vote jumped
to ZIG in this precinct.
The capitalist tactics was to make
any sort of combination against Com
rade Youngdahl. Two fake labor
tickets were circulated in the district,
both Of them carrying the name Of
Gallagher, who was also the candi-
date of the reactionary red-baiting
Minneapolis Journal, and cutting on
Comrade Youngdahl, who carried the
organized labor's endorsement.
The night before election the agent
for the Jewish Daily Forward was
presiding at farmer-labor mass meet
ing in the Jewish part of the district
and made vigorous attempts to stop
Comrade Youngdahl from speaking to
the assemblage but he failed miser-
ably. Comrade Youngdahl carried the
Jewish district by a large majority.
The opposition to Comrade Young
dahl was not confined to the capital
list class and their able allies, the
American Legion and the Ku Klux
Klan. r. d. Cramer. editor of the
4abor Review, and who had been ac-
sused of being Communist sym
9athizer, took up the battle against
he election of Youngdahl and in an
editorial withdrew the support Of his
publication from Youngdahl's candi-
dacy because of Youngdahl's support
of the national Workers Party ticket.
Knew Younadahl as Communist.
Despite all of these concentrated
attacks on the part of the capitalists
and the fake labor leaders, Youngdahl
polled a vote of 1885 on the ofiiciaI
count. This vote is greater by 600
than the highest vote polled in the
legislative contest two years ago in
this district. On account Of his Com
munist activities in the labor move.
ment and as a member of the Min
neapolis park board, coupled with
bitter denunciation directed against
him both in the capitalist daily pres:
and fake labor papers, there wer,
very few in the district but knew
that Comrade Youngdahl is Com
munist. The large vote becomes
therefore the more significant.
On the first days recount Conrad,
Youngdahl gained 26 votes in NV,
precincts counted. There are SO pre-
cincts yet to be counted. Every on,
Of the precincts counted showed er
rors at the expense of his vote. Thil
indicates that even in the matter
Of counting the votes the capitals
enemies were busy.
Comrade c. A. Hathaway, dlstric
organizer of district 3, Workers Par
ty, is inspector of the recount fol
Comrade Youngdahl. The recount /,
being watched with keen interes
turnout the city and the daily press
is being forced to give 1t daily pub
licity.