The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-01
The Farmer>Labor Partl
Supports Roosevelt

Council to pass motion ABOLISH
ing forced labor. Evictions are be-
ing ordered daily, and they would
take place but for the prompt ae-
ton of the unemployed council Ia
forcing the city to pay the rent
for those facing evictions.
In st. Paul, the Farmer-Labx
members of the City Council voted
wagecuts for city employees. Cow
ernor Olson also ordered wage cuts
for 10000 state employees. In Mine
neapolis, a strike against a wage-
cut on the Ford Dam was smashed
by Mayor Anderson's police who
beat up and Jailed pickets and pro-
tected scabs. A farmers road strike
on Highway No. II against wage
cuts met the opposition Of Olson
and the Farner-Labor State Sem
ator Lomen, but was finally won
by the farmers militancy.
The Farmer Labor Party is making
new left" maneuvers in an effort to
bolster up its waning influence.
The platform adopted at the, Stats
Farmer-Labor Party Convention In
st. Paul declared for "a new social
order" in an attempt to hide the
fact that the Farmer-Labor Party
stands for the capitalists social or
der, and fights tooth and nail
against the only anti capitalist
party that fights for a new social
order, the Communist Party. An
er-Labor plank for state income
other cleft" maneuver is the F.
tax, "in order to relieve the small
home owner" This income tax.
even if adopted, would not be al,
additional tax upon wealth in orr.
der to furnish funds for social in
surance and unemployment relief,
it would be a small replacement"
tax which would proportionate1y
reduce the property taxes of the
capitalist class. The vast majority
of the workers and farmers have
nothing to be taxed, and those that
have, are faced with the need for
cancellation of delinquent taxes.
not mere reduction of taxes, as
otherwise they are in danger Of los
ing their homes and farms. This
Farm-Labor platform, therefore,
offers no real solution to the prob
lens OF the workers and poor farm
ers. 1t is perfectly consistent FOL
Olson to support Roosevelt, just as
it is consistent for Senator Ship
stead and Congressman Kvale, also
Farmer-Laborites, to support the
policies of. the Hoover Wall Street
administration.
The Communist Party is conduct
ing a 6 rong fight against the bet
royals OF the Farmer-Labor Party.
The State Election platform of the
Communist Party demands the pas
sage of state law for uf1employ~
n1ent insurance, providing for q
graduated tax on all large incomes
and property. The platform de-
mands the immediate appropriation
of at least Is million dollars out
of the surplus in the state treasury.
for emergency cash relief to unenl-
ployed workers and poor farmers.
1t demands cancellation Of all de-
linquent taxes on the homes and
farms of workers and poor farm
ers, and stoppage to foreclosures
by, State Rural Credits Bureau.
Increasing numbers of workers and
farmers are supporting the only
anti-capitalist party and its prog
ram, the Communist Party, against
the demagogy OF the Farner-La-
borites. Olson's support OF Roose-
welt will only hasten the dishlusion-
ment of the masses in this third
party of the capitalist class, the
Farmer-Labor Parry, and will COM,
vince them that it is in their in
terest to vote Communist on Now
ember 9th.