The Redwood gazette., 1934-05-03

The Farmer-Labor party of Minnesota recognizes
that the United States has the most wonderful resour
ses great factories, machinery of production, steam
power and electric power and millions of capable work
and farmers ready and able to produce food cloth
ing and shelter great abundance for ALL At this time
when all of could live in prosperity and happiness
find that there millions of working men and wo-
in poverty, want and degradation and that there
also hundreds of thousands of farmers, business
and professional people who have become poverty
stricken and bankrupt and millions of people in all
walks of life are compelled to eat the bread of charity.
Palliative measures will continue to fail Only COM
pete reorganization of social structure into CO.
operative commonwealth will bring economic security
and prevent prolonged period of further suffering
among the people.
We therefore, declare that capitalism has failed
and immediate steps must be taken by the people to
abolish capitalism in peaceful and lawful manner and
that and just society must be established;
system where all the natural resources machinery of
production transportation and communication shall be
owned by the government and operated democraticaly
for benefit of all the people and not for the benefit
of the few.
In order to bring about this cooperative common
wealth and also for the purpose of adopting legislation
for the immediate relief of the people, the farmer
labor party adopts its platform the following pro-
posals:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS legislation to insure
security of tenure the land for those who farm it.
To this end further demand that congress pass the
Frazier bill for refnancing agricultural loans and the
Thomas bill other legislation to give agricul
ture price based upon the cost of production
Exemption from taxation Of homesteads in the city
and on the farms to the value of 100000.
Legislation extending the present moratorium two
years from the date of expiration and that action
may be brought within the two years any obligation
secured by mortgage
MARKETING-The greatest problem of the farm
being find markets for their products advocate
building and maintaining adequate cooperative mar
keting and purchasing agencies in all the large indus
trial ceners of the state to be correlated by state
supervised central head.
INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM-To protect our citizens
from exploitation through industrial profits, we de-
mand public ownership of all mnes waterpower, trans
portation and communication banks, packing plants,
factories and all public utilities Provided that this
shall not apply to bonafde co-operativey-o and
operated enterprises.
We pledge the people to submit amendment to
the constitution permit establishment of the Ontario
system of power development in the state. We also
pledge farm population and electric that
we will permit municipality owned power plants to sell
power freely outside their limits.
The immediate passage of Minnesota recon-
struction act with full power to regulate hours and
wages and carry on useful public projects.
EMPLOYMENTlThe state to take over sufficient
idle industrial plants furnish employment for idle
citizens and to distribute the products to the needy