The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-01-27
papers designated by party leaders as
kept"
WITH SOME REASON, THE ECE

WITH SOME REAOON, HE EC1O
refers to it's WPA wingers as Democrats al
though both parties must share responsibility
for counting the relief vote and encouraging
organizing of clients which recently has re-
suited in WPA strikes for higher wages. The
usurpation of control at political meetings is
the latest turn of events in the relief pic
ture and what happened at Alexandria may
be only the forerunner of similar efforts in
other counties. 1t is by no means certain
that efforts will be confined solely to Farm
er-Labor conventions, either.
The relief problem is generally regard
ed as the major problem before the nation
today. Once considered an emergency
condition, it may as well be recognized as
permanent issue subject to change in i'm
portance with turns in economic conditions
but never fully solved.
A RECENT CHANGE IN THE GOV
eminent attitude toward relief was shown
clearly in the order received by county COM
missioners here recently forbidding publica-
ton of names of relief clients and amounts
spent for their support, in county commits
SlOnerS' proceedings. The protests of irate
taxpayers would indicate that the order was
not we'll received
AS one taxpayer remarked, eve have
in Redwood Falls families who are on relief
for the third generation. Their names have
occurred in the county proceedings month
after month, year after year. It should, I
believe, be the privilege of heads of families
to know that they are supporting not only
their own family, but through taxation, are
paying the rent, light, heat, clothing, food
and doctor bills of a portion of another
family if not an entire family or several
families, depending upon the size of their
tax bill. Personally believe that if there
is stigma attached to receiving relief, it
falls not on those who because of unfortunate
circumstances have been forced to look to
the county for temporary aid but upon those
who make little or no effort either to sup
port themselves or to encourage their chill
dren to become self-supporting.
CHARLES L. COY, EDITOR OF THE
Echo, recommends barring all known Com
munists from the Farmer-Labor state con-
vention in March as the best method of tax
ing the wind out of the Hjalmer Petersen
for governor movement. Coming from
prominent party editor the warning is signi-
fcant. Coy has the following to say con-
corning the treatment he received at the
Douglas county convention:
The Echo editor served in the 1886 and
1897 Farmer-Labor state conventions on the
platform committee in 1886 and the commit
tee constitution in 1887. At both conven-
attempts of Communists to get their poison
into the platform and the constitution. At the
WPA-dominated convention last Saturday the
mention of the name of John L. Lewis, head of
the Clio, drew the loudest applause of the
day. Evidently the group which that con-
vention approves heartily of CLIO. Every
body knows that Communists dominate the
CLIO. 1t seems reasonable to put two and two
together and conclude that the WPA group
Ii
who would put up battle against Communist
doctrine creeping into the 1888 Farmer-Labor
platform.
FROM INTERVIEWS WE'VE HAD
this week, we judge many rank and file
Farmer-Laborites and some of the jobhold-
ers would like to see Benson and Petersen
scrap it out in the primary without con-
vention Endorsement