The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-02
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over the farmer-labor party in Min
nesota body, boots and breeches? An
uneasy suspicion to that effect has LOT
many months plagued the minds Oh
thousands of sincere men and women
who Joined the farmer-labor party some
wears back in the hope that principles
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, 1or Ihey
note that on the eve of the special
session of the legislature, gatherings OF
farmer-labor leaders to consider the
work of the session are represented
almost exclusively by communlstlc
spokesman.
Saturday before the special session
opened on Monday a well known
farmer-labor leader and politician, Mrs.
Marian LIE Sueur, who has long
record of communistic activities and
whose husband has signed himself,
yours for the revolution" denounced
at the state capitol the federal Social
Security Act which has been heralded
by the New Deal as epochal legislation
the most sweeping and far reaching in
the history of the world. 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" mem
oralize congress to enact adequate
social security legislation. Mrs. Le-
Sueur, like all Communists, frets at the
prospect of social salvation as gradual
growth; she proposes to bound into
economic 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 con-
ference on progressive social legislation
elected John H. Bosh of private mort.
gage and farm holiday fame as it:
chairman and named an executive com.
mittee with Howard Y. Williams a!
chairman, Otto Baudler of Austin
Harold Peterson of Willmar, Henry Tie.
gan of Minneapolis and Mrs. Marian
LeSueur of Minneapolis, "all represent
ing farmer-labor groups" as portion
of its membership.
The farmer-labor party touched thi:
sort of pitch year ago and was prett!
well defiled with it; today this com.
munistic element presumeS, and ap'
parently without challenge, to speak fol-
the farmer-labor party with authority
ssbss
Among other communistic straw:
SWirling about the state capital is thi!
one:
Governor Olson, in his message tt
the special session of the legislature or
Tuesday, December 3rd, said: ut is also
recommended that you memorable con-
greSS to pass the so-called Lundeer
Social Security Bill"
In August last william Green, presi-
dent of the American Federation Of
Labor, in a letter to the Minneapoli!
city council, said: Il 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 bilD, pro-
viding an unemployment, old age ano
social insurance law. The reason I an
surprised is that the bill was prepared
by the communist party and is referred
to by the Daily Worker, the oficia
organ of the Soviet government in the
United States as our bill. There is ne
hope of passage of the measure 1t was
originated by the Communists for or.
ganization purposes"
1t may surprise MinnesotanS to know
that the Young Womens Christian
Association of St. Paul is an active
forum for the dissemination of com.
munistic doctrine, and it is difficult mo-
to believe, from the pink to red tingt
of study groups sponsored there as vel
as the radical slant of so many of the
"Y's" lecturers, that this is going or
with the knowledge and approval of the
management. Certainly if it is not, il
is high time for the ''Y'' of st. Paul tc
clean house. ...
Some weeks ago a two-weeks con-
ference for Workers Education" was
held at the st. Paul Y. M. c. A., as a
relief project for unemployed teachers
1t was financed by federal funds, pre-
Sumably under the state department OF
education, with Roman Becker, a well
known radical with strong sympathies
for sovietism. One of the members OF
this study group, a Minneapolis woman
somewhat more mature than the ma
jority of the teachers attending, has
published a printed statement in which