The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-03
MINNEAPOLIS
F.-L.F. BOSSED
BY ATTORNEYS
Daily Star Forces in the
Saddle at Meeting
BY LESLIE r. HUNT.
Especial to The Daily Worker)

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. g. Out-man-
euvered in their attempt to unseat
Communist delegates or sympathizers,
reactionaries in the farmer-labor fed
Grafton meeting held last night offered
a resolution to deny representation to
political parties other than the farm
er-labor party.
The sponsors of the resolution adj
mitted frankly that the action was d.
rected at the Workers (Communist)
Party.
The resolution was adopted by
vote Of rs to II.
Last nights meeting looked more
like a convention Of lawyers, doctors
and professional men than a farmers
and workers gathering. In the news
columns of the Daily Star yesterday,
an appeal to the conservative element
was printed urging them to attend the
meeting. 1t was clearly an attempt
20 take the control of the farmer-labo
federation out of the hands of worker
and farmers and place it in the hand
Of professional politicians by packing
the meeting with this element which
is plentiful in the local movement.
Attorney Introduces Resolution.
Gustaf Drake, local attorney open.
ed the proceedings by presenting
resolution demanding the unseating OF
delegates who held Communist views
or who were not citizens Of the United
States.
Irving G. Scott, labor's fighting al
derman in the city council, who was
chairman, promptly ruled the resolu-
ton out of order. This took the pro-
fessional politicians by surprise and ii
took them some time to rally. Doctor
Henry L. Wuerzinger appealed from
the decision Of the chair, but after
much debate the chair was sustained
-35 to 6.
"Red" Cramer Turns Yellow.
1t remained for R. D. Cramer, editor
Of the Minneapolis Labor Review, rat
ed as progressive until his "pie-card"
was threatened, to function as a pro-
gressive fig-leaf for the reactionaries.
This time his TRADE was not delivered
against the bosses but against that
part Of the workingcIass that fights
the bosses uncompromisingly- the
Communists. Cramer showed last
night that his spiritual leader is not
Lenin, but Gompers. He predicted dis
aster for the local movement If the
resolution was not adopted.
Jack Bradon in replying to Cramer,
pointed out that the only two candi-
dates on the farmer-labor ticket that
did not repudiate their Communist
support-Olson and Holmes received
the largest vote Bradon stated that
the drive against the Communists did
not spring from the rank and file but
from the officialdom of the American
Federation of Labor.
Reactionaries Brought Defeat.
There are some silly persons" he
said, who seek to blame the Commu-
nists for the defeat of the state ticket.
They know that to be lie. The de-
feat of the farmer-labor ticket in Min
nesota was directly due, not to the
Workers (Communist) Party, the most
active workers for the ticket, but to
the sabotage of the right wing ele-
nent in the labor movement"
"They permitted LaFollette's bench
men to run the campaign to the almost
total exclusion of the candidates on
the state ticket. After all, there isn't
much to be accomplished by the work
ers going to the ballot boxes. II the
time ever comes in this country when
the workers and farmers are able to
put over sweeping nationwide vic
tory at the polls, don't you suppose
that capitalism is going to fight
against seating these representatives?
What was done in Italy by Mussolini
md his blackshirts when the workers
ook over the factories?
Let's quit kidding ourselves. If you
men and women vote tonight in favor
Of the resolution endorsed by Cramer,
which is directed against the Workers
(communist) Party, you are fighting
the most progressive and militant
wing Of the labor movement"
Mahoney Present.
Gunnar Olson, wearing an American
Legion button in his coat lapel and
who was recently defeated as can
didate tor the legislature, made an at
tack on the Soviet government, and
defended the resolution. When he had
finished he came over to the cores
pondent of the DAILY WORKER and
shouted:
Put that into the DAILY WORKER
again, will your"
William Mahoney and Ralph Har-
mon, leader Of the farmer-labor feder-
alton, sat in the session which lasted