The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-20
ais17lNN. ELECTION
4 HOT STRUGGLE
"Farmer-Labor" Party
Tool of Bosses

MINNEAPOLIS, Manufacturing
out that in the primary election held
here only the capitalist parties par
ticipate, adding that the primaries
are only tricks to fool workers into
thinking there is some difference7be-
tween capitalist politicians, the Com
munist Party called on workers to
boycott the primaries and support
the Communist Party in the Novem-
Der elections.
In Minnesota the election fight is
Of special interest since here, be-
sides the republican and democratic
parties, capitalism has also another
party, the so-called "Farmer-Labor"
party.
Like the tabor" party of Penn
sylvania, which has endorsed the re-
publican candidates, Secretary OF
Labor Davis and Clifford Pinchot,
the Minnesota labor" party is back
ed by the fascist bureaucrats of the
A. F. of L., who play stool-pigeor
by testifying in capitalist courts
against workers picketing the North
west Bank building and refuse to
rent their halls to the Unemp loyed
Councils. 1t is now reported that
the ''farmer-labor" party is going
to join with the democratic party.
But beside the support given by
these fascist "labor" leaders the
"farmer-labor" party of Minnesota
enjoys the support of the Trotsky-
lite renegades from Communism,
Vincent Dunno and Skoglunr, who
in Minnesota have found in the
farmer-labor party the common
ground of opportunism with the
I.ovestone renegades whose chief
here is Halonen.
In fact these fascists and social
fascists and rencgades from Commit
nism are one happy family. The
Trotskyites, who snort that the
Communist Party isn't revolutionary
enough for them, the Lovestonites
who think it is too revolutionary,
with their spokesman Halonen in
league with the wholly "anti-poli-
teal" I,W.W., all join hands in the
"farmer-labor" party against the
Communist Party.
The "farmer-labor" party tries to
hold back the growing anger of the
workers against capitalism, hiding
its support of capitalism behind
progressive" phrases; but fighting
attempts to organize the unemploy-
ed and employed and kidding the
workers with empty talk about Gin
vestigations" of unemployment just
like Tammany's Senator Wagner
and so on.
Against all this gang of crooks
the Communist Party has entered
the election with its own ticket, the
candidates being:
For Governor, Karl Reeve; for
Lieutenant Governor, Andrew Roine
of Angora in st. Louis County; for
U. S. Senator, Rudolph Harju of
New York Mills; for Secretary of
State, Henry Bartlett; for Railroad
Commissioner, Nick Maxi.
For Congress from the 9Th Dis
trict, Rebecca Grecht; from the 4th
District, A. n. Anderson; for the
3rd District, E. B. Ford of Fairbault.
Other congressional nominations will
be entered later.
There will be a State Ratification
Conference of the Party to be held
on July 10, at Cancels Hall, IL East
Superior St., Duluth.
From the call sent out to work
ers' and poor farmers organizations
several hundred delegates are ex-
pected. They have already been
elected by such organizations as the
National Miners Union and those 81
the farmers among the Finnish pop.
ulation. A. F. of l.. local unions are
invited to send delegates in spite Of
their bureaucratic leaders, and work
ers in unorganized shops are urges
to form shop committees, not onl,
to send delegates, but to organic
for struggle in their daily interests
under guidance of the Trade Uniol