The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-12-12
REPUBLICAN
BY r. w. Hitchcock

Has the communist movement
taken over the farmer-labor party
in Minnesota body, boots and bree-
ches? An uneasy suspicion to that
effect has for many months
plagued the minds of thousands OF
sincere men and women who join
led the farmer-labor party some
years back in the hope that prin-
ciples and policies then announced
by the farmer-labor party would
ease economic distress and reform
economic abuses. Today these
same people are asking themselves
this question anew, for they note
that on the eve Of the special ses-
sion of the legislature, gatherings
Of farmer-labor leaders to consider
the work of the session are repre-
scented almost exclusively by COM
munistic spokesman.
Saturday before the special ses-
sion opened on Monday a well
known farmer-labor leader and
politician, Mrs. Marian LeSueur,
who has a long record of commu-
nistic activities and whose hus-
band has signed himself f'yours
for the revolution, denounced at
the state capital the federal So
cial Security Act which has been
heralded by the New Deal as epoc-
hal legislation, the most sweeping
and far reaching in the history
of the yorld. To Mrs. LIE Sueur,
however, it is nothing but crumbs
for the farmers and the workers.
She said she proposed to lap up
the crumbs, but demanded that
the special session immediately
memorable congress to enact "ade-
quate' social security legislation.
Mrs. LIE Sueur, like all commu-
nists, frets at the prospect of so
cial salvation as gradual growth;
she proposes to bound into econom-
ic heaven in one leap, which is fine
if you can make it, but usually
these hasty leaps in the dark land
you plump in the other place.
The next day the farmer-labor
conference on progressive social
legislation elected John H. Bosch
of private mortgage and farm holt
day fame as its chairman and
named an executive committee
with Howard Y. Williams as chair.
man, Otto Baudler of Austin, Har-
old Peterson of Willmar, Henry
Teigan of Minneapolis and Mrs,
Marian lie Lueur Of Minneapolis,
all representing fatmer-labor
groups, as a portion of it's men,
bership.
The farmer-labor party touched
this sort of pitch year ago and
was pretty well defiled with it;
today this communistic element
presumes, and apparently without
challenge, to speak for the farmer
labor party with authority.
Among other communistic straws
swirling about the state capital is
this one:
Governor Olson, in his message
to the special session of the legis-
lature on Tuesday, December Bird,
said: 'It is also recommended
pass the so-called Lundeen Social
Security Bill"
In August last William Green,
president Of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, in a letter to the
Minneapolis city council, said: IT
was very much surprised to receive
your letter of July Both in which
YOU stated that the city council of
Minneapolis had endorsed H. r.
1927 (so-called Lundeen billy, pro-
viding an unemployment, old age
and social insurance law. The
reason am surprised is that the
bill was prepared by the commu-
mist party and is referred to by
the Daily Worker, the official or
gan of the Soviet government in
the United States, as our bill.
There is no hope of passage of
the measure. It was originated by
the communists for organization
purposes"