The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-03
Social Dernagogy in Minneapolis
City Elections

the former Republican Senator Campbell Camp
bell recognized that Anderson will be able to
serve the bosses best in this period when the
workers are desperate. Mr.. Campbell is quoted
to have said the following in his speech, II do
not wish to divide the field further . . and am
asking my friends to support Mr.. Anderson, my
friend for the past 20 years" Yes, indeed the
boss class must find some way of catching the
working class VOTE and therefore they need the
Farmer Labor Party to keep the field undivided
The bosses need someone who can talk fine
phrases, who can accept social insurance in 'prin-
ciple," and then mobilize the police Gas Kunze
is doing of the city to attack the workers who
actually fight for unemployment insurance and
immediate relief.
Farmer-Laborite Exposed
Even the fine words of the Farmer Labor plat
form cannot save the face of the Farmer Labor
Party Mr.. Olson has completely exposed the
capitalist-boss face of that party. 1t is an open
secret that Mr.. Olson is still running the county
prosecutors office in Minneapolis, and it was
that office that caused the railroading of four
workers to 80 days in the work-houSe on
frame-up charge of "rioting" Thousands of
workers remember that Mr.. Olson told the COM
mttee representing the 10000 workers that he
could do nothing for the unemployed The pro-
gram of public works is working out to the
benefit of the steel trust. Millions of dollars
worth of cement was bought from the steel trust
Cement being by-product of steeD while the
wages of the road builders have been cut thru
limiting the amount of work during the summer
months. Even the minimum scale of the AFL
for common laborers has been cut from Csc to
45c. by Mr.. Olson
Workers Want Action
The workers Of Minneapolis have learned
significant lesson in their struggle for unem-
ployment relief They have learned the differ
ence between talk and action. The workers of
this city have been fed on plenty of talk from
the "hot" speeches of Walter Frank to the euo-
gies of Olson about coming from the common
people" We cannot live on "hot" speeches and
eulogies We want bread and work. The city
and state governments have both definitely re-
fused to give immediate relief to the unemployed,
the ALL officials, the backbone of the Farmer
Labor Party have not lifted a finger to protect
the employed workers from wage cuts and con-
slant lay-offs Nay, they have, through their
closed door conferences with the bosses actually
given aid to the employers to carry out their
wage-cutting policy.
The only Party and Trade Union that came
out on the streets with the workers to demand
immediate relief is the Communist Party and
the Trade Union Unity League The Unemploy-
ed Councils of the Trade Union Unity League
have been in the lead in gaining whatever the
unemployed workers managed TO get. The filthy
City Mission has been exposed through the work
of the Unemployed Councils, the Welfare Board
was forced through demonstrations to grant act
ual relief to workers in the form of rent and
liveable rations. The Communist Party has given
and will give all aid to the work of the Trade
Union Unity League. The Communist Party had
a delegate on every one Of the delegations that
went to the court house and state house to
place before the government the demands OF
the unemployed workers Of this city and fight