Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-04-19
FARMER-LABORITES
LAUNCH CAMPAIGN
By H. G. Teigan)
Farmer.LabOr Press Service

(Herewith is published the
program OF the Fermentation
party, as adopted at the recent
convention at st. Paul. This has
been withheld until this time be-
cause of lack of space.
The battle lines for the political
contest in Minnesota during the year
of 1928 have now been definitely
drawn.
The Republicans held their state
convention on March "a. Farmer
LabOriteS met in convention on March
26 and 81.
The Republicans fought each other
bitterly. The Backus crowd was over
whelmingly in the majority and steam
rollered the Shevlin-Carpenter dele
gates of the opposition lumber COM
Backus delegates appeared in the roll
OF LoWden supporters while the dele
gates of the opposition lumber COM
pany functioned in behalf of Herbert
Hoover. There will be 81 LOwden
delegates to for Hoover from Mime
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when it cOnvenes next June.
The Farmer-Labor convention was
easily the best in years. While there
was not complete agreement on ques
tons brought before the delegates
there was no cheap factional pickering
nor was there any extreme bitterness
manifested at any stage of the con-
vention's proceedings.
Platform Best Ever.
The platform adopted is fundament-
ally progressive. 1t contains 10 pro-
positions, all of a constructive char
acter. Among these the most i'm
portant are:
Demand for the repeal of the
Brooks-Coleman street railway law,
which was enacted in 1921, taking
from the cities of Minneapolis, St.
Paul, and Duluth the power to con-
troll street railways, and placing such
power in the hands of the state rail-
road and warehouse commission.
Advocacy of the establishment of
state-owned printing plant to perform
the printing of the state government
and its political subdivisions
Pledging the party, if victorious at
the polls next November, ito so organ
ize the public work of the state as to
provide relief for the unemployed dur
ing seasons of industrial depression"
Compensation Favored.
Advocacy of a state fund workmen's
compensation plan on the order of the
scheme now in use in North Dakota,
Ohio, and several other states.
Demand that the legislature enact
| legislation for the "Re-classification
of property for purposes of taxation
in order to reduce the taxes upon the
farmers homes, improvements and
personal property; also to reduce in
| like manner the taxes on the homes
and personal effects of city dwellers."
Approval of the measure introduced
in Congress by Senator Shipstead
which would prohibit the building of
dams in boundary waters between the
United States and Canada without the
consent of congress.
| Pledging the party to work for legis-
lation that will permit farmers and
other consumers to be supplied with
electric light and power plants en-
gaging as district systems in the pub
| lies interest,"" also approval of a con-
stitutional amendment which will en-
able the state to develop water power
Approval of the McNary-Haugen
bill with the equalization fee pro-
vision.
| Condemnation of Governor Christ
iansons so-called economy program"
and of the governors blue sky COM
mission which authorized the plumber
ing of the people by a group of pro-
motors resulting in losses to invest
ors running into the millions of dol
lars.
Three Endorsed.
The ticket endorsed is one of the
strongest ever named by the Farmer
Labor party in the state. United
States Senator Henrik Shipstead was
endorsed for reelection and Floyd B.
Olson, county attorney of Hennepin
county and Farmer-Labor nominee for
governor in 1924, was endorsed for the