FACTIONS IN MINNESOTA FARMER-LABOR PARTY AGREE TO TRUCE UNTIL JUNE 21
Factions in Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party Agree to Truce Until June 21 Officers Elected at Convention in Rochester ROCHESTER, Minn.—Faced with sharp differences between nearly equal left-wing and...
...La Follette declared, was to "assure the wealth producers their full share of what they produce...
...The absence of 19 county delegations, most of them Progressive, greatly affected the balance of power...
...Phil La Follette of Wisconsin, who told delegates that a national people's party would take the field in 1940 if the two major parties offer "Tweedledum and Tweeedledee" presidential candidates, and that congressional elections this year would find many strong third party candidates running...
...Healey (D., Mass...
...Harold L. Peterson, Willmar legislator, and by electing Edwin I. Hudson, Minneapolis alderman, as vice chairman...
...Necessary now, he said, was a program to enable the unemployed to "put their labor and brains to work...
...We cannot do this," La Follette continued while delegates cheered lustily, "without fundamental changes in the economic system of the U. S." Names Objectives "The real objective of the nation's Progressives...
...That ends in social bankruptcy...
...No nation is rich enough to pay a substantial part of the population not to produce...
...Robert M. LaFollette, will not run on the Republican ticket in the fall...
...The Wisconsin Republicans are doing some wishful thinking when they try to tell you that Bob and the other Progressives are going to run as Republicans in 1940," he said...
...News Carriers Held Entitled to Fund ALBANY, N. Y.—Newspaper route carriers are employes of newspaper corporations and not independent contractors, and are therefore entitled to unemployment insurance, the state court of appeals ruled in a 5 to 2 decision...
...The convention will meet again June 21-22 to perfect plans for the fall elections...
...Final action on the platform will see the Progressives putting up their chief fight for more militant provisions...
...A hot fight is expected over the platform and candidates, with the three leading FLP candidates for governor agreed to go into the primary without indorsement by the June convention, in order to avoid a split...
...The repressions of the people will be 10—yes, 100—times worse than during the last war...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—Virtual destruction of the national labor relations act was demanded by Rep...
...Police Chief Arthur Hohmann and the municipal court were enjoined from prosecuting Frederic C. Kane, a member of the International Jewelry Workers Union (AFL...
...Purpose of the gathering was to draft a tentative election platform and choose officers...
...Sound Trucks Are 'Constitutional' LOS ANGELES...
...Factions in Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party Agree to Truce Until June 21 Officers Elected at Convention in Rochester ROCHESTER, Minn.—Faced with sharp differences between nearly equal left-wing and right-wing camps, the annual convention of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor assn...
...We face one fundamental proposition," La Follette declared...
...A recess was decided upon unanimously by the 450 delegates...
...Reps...
...Howard Smith (D., Va...
...Elmer A. Benson, making his first statewide address in more than a year, echoed La Fol-lette's warning against U. S. participation in the European war...
...The case involved Anthony Scatola, a route carrier for The Bronx Home News...
...on behalf of a majority of the special house committee investigating the NLRB...
...The association is the dues-paying organization of the Farmer-Labor party...
...Elect Chairman The right-wing faction kept its control of the association by re-electing Chairman Edward Hagen, Milan legislator, and Sec...
...He also warned against entanglement in the "blood-stained politics of the old world.'' La Follette asserted that his brother, Sen...
...Former Gov...
...Cal.—An anti-sound truck ordinance, as applied to labor unions engaged in a strike, was held unconstitutional by the appellate division of the Los Angeles superior court...
...voted an armed truce until June at a 2-day meeting here...
...Chief convention speaker was former Gov...
...Under no circumstances will our party stand by while the nation drifts into war," he said...
...and Murdock (D., Utah), in a minority statement, attacked the Smith proposals as "emas-culatory...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 12
