The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-01
BY WILLIAM sCHNEnDERMAN

BY WILLIAM SCHNEIDERMAN
Floyd B. Olson, Farmer-Labor
Governor of Minnesota, has is
sued a statement that he will sup
port Franklin D. Roosevelt, De-
mocratic candidate for President.
This open, brazen support of the
Tammany Hall candidate, the Wall
Street lawyer Roosevelt, is no sur
prise to the militant owrkers and
farmers of Minnesota who have
learned of the capitalist role of the
Farmer-Labor Party through bitter
experience. This is not the first
time that the Farmer -Laborites
supported the Democratic Party;
in his candidacy for Governor, Oh
son obtained support of the Demo-
Gratis in return for the Farmer
Labor support to Democratic can
didates.
This horse-trading maneuver re-
fleets the increasingly difficult posi-
ton that the Farmer-Labor Party
finds itself in, with thousands of
workers and farmers becoming rap
idly disillusioned in the Farmer
Labor administration which has
foH7otten all its demogogic election
promises of 1880. Governor Olson
was elected on the slogan Strike
A Blow AT Unemployment" and
because of his lavish promises for
farm relief. Today, there are 175,o0C
unemployed in the state of Min
nesota, and the state government
has done nothing for unemploy-
ment relief. With a surplus of more
than 81 million dollars in the state
treasury on July LIST, the state gov
eminent has not appropriated one
cent for the unemployed. The
Farmer-Labor platform claims to
support unemployment insurance,
but the F'armer-Laborites in the
State legislature and in Congress
did not raise finger to introduce
bills for unemployment insurance.
The Farmer-Labor Governor makes
big plea for economy" but he
didn't believe in economizing when
he signed bill passed by the Re-
publican controlled Legislature ap-
propriating s1,55O,oo0 for the Ma
tiona1 Guard
The State Rural Credits Bureau,
the pet project of the Farmer-La-
Dor Party for farm relief can
today boast that it has foreclossd
more than 5000 farms. The ex-
plotted farmers of Minnesota, car
rying a crushing tax burden and
mortgages which they cannot meet,
are facing foreclosures, sheriffs sales
and evictions by the thousands
The Farmer Labor administration
has taken over the role of land
lord and banker, and is efficiently
carrying through the program of
the capitalist class. And governor
Olson, in speech before the Min
nesota Bankers Association, assuerd
them that his administration would
do nothing to hurt their Invest
ments. No wonder it is runored
that bankers contributed to Olson's
campaign fund!
The record of governor Olson and
the Farmer-Labor Mayors of the
Twin Cities, Mayor Anderson of
Minneapolis and Mayor Mahoney of
st. Paul, shows that the claims
of the Farmer-Labor Party that
they are for unemployment relief
and against wage-cuts are rank
hypocrisy and demogogy. In Min
neapolis, where there are $1,000
unemployed, only 4,5o0 are on the
relief lists, and these receive small
grocery orders amounting to a few
cents day. Up to July 9th, they
were forced to work for this mis-
cradle relief, but on that cate a
magnificent demonstration Of thou
sands of workers led by the I lem-
ployed Council forced the City