The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-22
The Minneapolis Journal
Fears Growing Solidarity
of Workers and Farmers
BY ]. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TIME vicious attack of the Green
4 officialdom In the American Fed
Grafton of Labor against the left
wing and the Communists has found
it many friends among the employ
ers. This support finds an express
sion in the kept publications of the
great open shop" interests.
An editorial that has just appear
ed in the Minneapolis, Mimi,
Journal is typical of the applause
and the approval that comes from
the enemies of labor in support of
Green's war on labor's militants.
The Journal rushes to the assist
ance of Nervous Nellie" Frank B.
Kellogg, secretary of state, defend
ing his attack on the Communists
and the Communist International. 1t
supports Kellogg's theory that Com
munists are fomenting all the trou-
BILE in Mexico, Nicaragua and other
Latin-America countries. 1t ridicules
all those who refuse to accept the
Kellogg viewpoint declaring:
'Well, then, what of this declara-
ton by President William Green of
the American Federation of Labor
at Tampa, Florida, the other day:
Organized labor today is bat
thing continuously with a force
(Communism)) which has pitted it.
self against not only labor, but
against all other groups of society
and even the American government
"Wil1 these scoffers now vote Mr..
Green into the Nervous Nellie Club?
Have they the crust to intimate that
perhaps Mr.. Green, who works 365
days a year to advance the cause of
the American workingman, does not
know his onions?"
It is only in one direction that The
Journal can see any advance" for
labor, and that is an advance"
backwards. The Journal fights the
organization of the miners on Min
nesota's iron range. 1t glories in
every setback suffered by the rail-
road workers. 1t aids in every as
sault on those who toll, organized
and Nunorganized, and it is the worst
enemy of the farmers, being the
spokesman of the railroad owners,
banking interests, the chamber of
commerce crowd and the rich land
lords. Like Green it, too, works
365 days in the year to advance"
the interests of the workers and
farmers backwards.
Yet The Journal isn't directly con-
cerned, in this instance, with the
policy by Dollar Diplomacy" in
Mexico, Nicaragua, China, or any
other oppressed country. 1t isn't to
be bothered, in this instance, so
much with the attack of Mr.. Green
on the furriers and the ladies' gar
ment workers in New York City.
These are mere pegs on which to
hang its program of struggle at
|
onions" and it has an immediate
task to perform right in its own
front yard.
1t realizes, right now, more than
eyer that it's class is being pressed
hard by the growing independent
political action of the workers and
farmers. 1t stands at bay before the
brilliant achievements Of the Min
nesota Farmer-Labor conference
just held at st. Paul, where all the
predictions of The Journal, and it's
fellow capitalist sheets, concerning
the future of the Farmer-Labor
Party in Minnesota, went into the
scrap heap.
Therefore, it bowls, and calls up
on both Kellogg and Green as its
allies in the anti-Communist war
that it seeks to develop as the driv-
ing wedge of its attack on the Min
nesota Farmer-Labor movement.
I It is clear that the workers and
farmers of Minnesota will not be
frightened by The Journals attack.
The edge of this form of assault
has been blunted by frequent use
for many years, in fact, ever since
the Non-Partisan League entered
the state nearly a decade ago.
The fact that all forms of red
batting were absent from the very
representative Farmer-Labor gather
ing marks an historic event for the
whole American labor movement,
not less important than the strong
stand for the development of the Min
nesota Farmer-Labor Party, and the
vigorous attack on "Dollar Diplom-
acy," especially as 1t is operating at
the present time against Mexico,
Nicaragua and China.
The whole attack of the Mime
sofa capitalist press, during last
falls congressional campaign, was