The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Shipstead Consorts With
the Enemies of Labor in
Court Battle in Chicago
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

HENRIK sHIPSTEAD, elected as farmer-Iabor senator
from Minnesota is in Chicago talking for of the
choicest aggregation of antabor political bandits the city
Ex-Mayor William Hale Thompson is shpsteads spon-
and he has the backing in his Chicago meetings. OF the
CroweBarett republican machine that gets its strength
thru States Attorney Robert E. Groves grip the prose-
cutor's office of Cook county's government
Grove, the republican, who deserted the Thompson
fit and linked up with it again, has also bipartisan
party. The workers and farmers of Minnesota, who
shpsead to the United States senate will be interested in
the kind of company the senator they elected keeping in
Chicago.
evident that Shipsteads position
issue draws him into the company OF thompson and Grove
shpstead screams for mo foreign entangIements" and
and half ago. Back to TO-" is Shipsteads slogan
just the pet rayng cry not only of LaFoette in
leading the middle class including the rich farmers
der poPust and standards against the bankers
and great industralsts.
The fact that the Thompson aggregation
is seeking to exploit middle class and confused work.
ing class protest. the fact that Is opposed to the
United States senators from illinois, William Mckinley and
Charles S. Deneen the agents of biggest business the fact
Better Government Association; these facts help
stamp the Grove regime in the states attorneys office
any the less anti-abor The Thompson out
fit is the bitter enemy of the workers.
TWAS States Attorney Grove who raded the offices of
the Anagamated Clothing Workers Union arresng many
ment bosses.
1t was States Attorney Grove who raided the office of
the Metal oshers Union, during its strike at the Crbben
Sexton plant thus seeking cripple the workers struggle
States Attorney Grove has also directed raids and
rests against the Milk Drivers Unon the Walters Union
the Barbers Union, to mention only few.
The diabolcal alliance of the farmer-abor senator,
Shpstead with this outfit has evidently proved
ing that the local labor ocadom, that deserted
armer-labor unity for nonpasan political action, has
not been conspicuous any of the festivities pre-
pared for Shipstead during his stay in the city.
Shpstead is opposed world court and the league
of nations But his opposition has working class basis
recognizing these institutions instruments of the capitalist
class Shpstead has the outlook of the timd petty
geose who seek safety in isolation from world problems
This links him up with the middle class enemies Of the
workers.
1t is Shipstead and Magnus Johnson and other place
seekers who graft themselves upon the independent political
class action of the workers and farmers fight admission
OF the Communists to the farmerabo movement
the Communists insist the right criticize policies and
to expose miseades who their positions Shipstead
now doing, to betray labor.
With the farmerabor movement again in the ascend
ant old problems again present themselves. Admission of
Workers (communist) Party delegates Farmer-Labor
gatherings only have the effect of helping cleanse
them of undesirable elements Political careerists of the
type of Shpstead, who align themselves with the worst
enemies of the workers and farmers, danger to the
tarmerabor movement and must be put they belong