Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-08

ers. Stronger medicine" the Gov
ernor has told the President, els
needed to rescue agriculture"
Governor Benson has turned tables
on the Institute of American Meat
Packers, which recently criticized him
for his radio address in which the
Governor declared that the farmers
share of the pork dollar has been
reduced from 80 cents in 1913 to 40
cents at the present time.
The Institute of American Meat
Packers, which is the publicity organ
OF the packers, charged that the Gov
ernor used the wrong figures, de-
claring that the farmer is receiving
81 cents of the pork dollar at present
instead of 40 cents.
The Governor forthwith wired the
Federal Trade Commission at WASH
ington to ascertain whether the 40
cent figure or the 67-cent figure is
correct. The Commission replied
backing up the Governors assertion
that the farmer is today receiving only
40 cent of the pork dollar.
The Governor made public the
telegram from the Federal Trade
Commission at meeting in Dakota
county, home of the meat packing
industry in that state and also home
of his Republican opponent.
The real danger to America in the
Dies Committee investigation lies in
the fact that it has been and will
be used by arch-reactionaries to
smear progressive, economic and DO
lltlcal movements. This can easily be
done by sending before the commit
tee witnesses to testify as they please,
without genuine evidence to back up
their assertions.
1t is quite we'll known fact that
reactionarieS are not afraid of any
Communist movement in America.
because the handful of Communists
IN this country is hardly sufficient,
If put in one spot, to swing village
election for constable The threat to
them is thus not the Communist
movement but the liberal movement:
hence the campaign to smear liberal
and progressive political parties as
having communistic tendencies or
communistic connections.
The saving grace about the entire
thing lies in the obvious purpose be-
hind this kind of investigation. They
have already overplayed their hand.
The people are not likely to be de-
ceived.
w. F. (Ax-handle) Schilling, Her
bert Hoover's $4,000 dollar-a-year
member of his disastrous Farm Board,
is finding it difficult to separate the
worker and the farmer politically in
Minnesota. Farmers are asking too
many questions as to who are pro-
viding finances for this organization
| and why these finances are being pro-
vided. 1t is certain that somebody is
paying the bill and until MIR. Schill-
ing lets the Minnesota farmers know
who they are, they will lend a deaf
ear to what he says.
Schilling imported this organization
from California. He has constantly
been asked by farmers whether it is
true or not that a railroad company
and a public utility company paid
the initial costs of starting the move
ment. He has refused to answer it
because there is positive evidence
that such is the case. Schilling is
fooling nobody as to the real pur-
pose of his organization. 1t is part
of the old game to divide the worker
and the farmer because, once that
is accomplished, it will be much
easier for the fat boys to farm the
farmers and at the same time destroy
| the labor unions. It is part of the
COP campaign against the Farmer
Labor party.
Although the major phase of the
Farmer-Labor campaign got under
way with the address to Farmer
Labor workers made by Campaign
Manager Lohmann, the real push will
not begin until the Governor makes
his keynote address in Appleton on
September 20.
In this address the Governor is
certain to review his stewardship of
office, to state very clearly what the
issues of the campaign are, and what
the position of the administration and
the Farmer-Labor party is pertain
ing to these issues, and to review
the record of the conservative Senate
in the last legislature.
Although the Governors Republic
can opponent refuses either to APP
prove that record or to condemn it
or even refer to it, it is certain to
be fully exposed by both Governor
Benson and the Farmer-Labor speak,
erS.
"In the old days." L. E. (Scoop)
Lohmann, state Farmer-Labor cam
paign manager, declared in opening
the Farmer-LabOr campaign. "Repub-