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IssueVol. 004 Issue 031 (August 3 1940)
IssueVol. 004 Issue 032 (August 10 1940)
IssueVol. 004 Issue 033 (August 17 1940)
IssueVol. 004 Issue 035 (August 24 1940)
IssueVol. 004 Issue 085 (August 31 1940)
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Paid articleGOP Frantic
Bob LaFollette Says: / Congress Must Not Tolerate A Greedy Profit Strike A POWERFUL GROUP of profit-greedy industrialists are seriously hampering the national defense program. Despite their...
Paid articleExtra!
Chairman Sees Smashing Party Victory In Fall jacK iv. ivyje _ JACK K. Kyle, chairman of the Progressive state central committee, predicted a smashing triumph for the Progressive party in the fall...
Paid articleBob LaFollette Says
Business Wins First Round Of Profits Row BIG business appeared to have won a smashing victory in its fight for greater profits out of national defense when the House ways and means committee this...
Paid articleConscription Foes
Senate Speeds Approval of Draft Measure THE drive to conscript the nation's youth for the first time in America's peacetime history appeared to be clearing its first major hurdle this week as the...
Paid articleNepotism Rampant
Eight Times Bob, Phil Have Heavy Labor Day Slate of Speeches BOB and Phil LaPollette will give eight major addresses over the Labor Day weekend in Wisconsin. Returning from Washington for the...
Paid articleASIZZLING
Frenzied Efforts Fail To Alter Progressive's Exposure Of 'Economy' 'T'HE Heil administration publicly admitted this week that it has A spent at least $1,007,250 more for state salaries during its...
Paid articleDairy
Kyle Lashes Politics In Heil's Oleo Denial State Chairman Cites Record To Prove Heil's Attack On Dairy Law IN A PUBLIC statement citing chapter and verse on Gov. Heil's opposition to Wisconsin's...
Paid articleNelson Raps
! Progressives ; Put Mans Rights - First—Loomis Former Atty. Gen. Orland S. Loomis, Mauston, candidate for the Progressive nomination for governor, said in a speech in Milwaukee last week that...
Paid articleDon't Go Down
Elect Liberals Gunderson Plea It is more important to elect liberal assemblymen and state senators than it is to elect a governor, Henry A. Gunderson, candidate tor the Progressive nomination tor...
Paid article10th District
Ohl, Handley Reelected By State Labor THE Wisconsin Federation of Labor closed its 48th annual convention in Janesville last week, after approving a bundle of resolutions, re-electing veteran Henry...
Paid articleLabor Blasts
'Economy' Fake Exposed, Heil Gang 'Fran tic'—Risser The Progressive's revelation that the Heil administration has spent $1,300 000 more in salaries during the first 18 months of its term than was...
Paid articleAlf onsi
Corrigan Promises ^ To Help Redeem . State From Tories ; Promising to help "redeem Wis- ' consin" from "the kind of ordeal that stalwart government always $ gives us," Walter D. Corrigan, Sr.,...
Paid articleCart
The Young Progressives j THE picnic and celebration to be sponsored by the Lincoln County Young Progressive Club has been postponed fron Sunday, Aug. 25, to Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 7 and 8....
Paid articleGuhderson Calls
Politics Rife In Road Bids, Nelson Charges State Sen. Philip E. Nelson, candidate for the Progressive nomi-, nation for governor, charged in a speech at Logansville last week that the Heil...
Paid articlePrivate Utilities
Wisconsin Gets $75,000 To Train 'Army In Overalls' Wisconsin has been allotted $75,000 for training of its people in industries for national defense, according to George P. Hambrecht, state...
Paid articleBig Joke!
Hell Is Disgrace Kading Charges Gov. Heil has "disgraced" Wisconsin by a "combination of childish and vicious acts," Charles E. Kading, Watertown, candidate for Progressive nomination for attorney...
Paid articleFarmer Labor
'Key* Transport Bill, Backed By Labor,Clears The Wheeler-Lea bill — "key" transportation measure which, for the first time, establishes a "national transportation policy" — cleared a joint...
Paid articleU.S.-Canada
Ingram Hits Heil's Attempt To Split Farm-Labor Unity State Sen. 3. Earle Ingram, Progressive candidate for attorney general, told a Pond du Lac county Progressive meeting last week that "the...
Paid articleState Legion
Federation Plans 'Indoor Picnic', Bob Invited To Speak Sen. Robert M. La Follette, Jr., has been invited to be the principal speaker at the Progressive Party Federation "indoor picnic" Sunday,...
Paid articleIngram Assails
Droit of Wealth Rejected As Industry Holds Out For Big Profits, Low Taxes DESPITE disclosures by a senate -committee that army and navy officials have reported national defense "stymied" by...
Paid articleChristenson Hits
Price Progressives Hear Candidates At Party Price county Progressives continued their organization activities at a semi-monthly party at the Ogema Town Hall last week, sponsored by the county...
Paid articleGOP 'Gold-Bricked
Farmer Labor Relations THE 48th annual convention of labor, held at Janesville Aug. 19 to 23, marked another step forward for organized labor in the state. J. J. Handley, veteran state secretary,...
Paid articleMcDowell 'Shows
Publicity Only Restraint On Shakedowns PITILESS publicity appears to be the only restraint left against employers who "invite" their workers to contribute to political campaign funds for...
Paid articlePolitical Parade
Bob Wins Fight For Exemption Of Clergymen Exemption of ministers and ministerial students from compulsory military training was written into the conscription bill last week after a vigorous plea by...
Paid articlePrice Progressives Hear Candidates
Johnson Pledges To Help Co-ops Government assistance to the farm cooperative movement by the Progressive party was promised toy Olaf H. Johnson. Gratiot, Progressive candidate for state treasurer,...
Paid articleRCA 'Bribed' Former Senators Committee Told
Coast Liberals Crack Machines Of Old Parties Calling upon the libera and progressive rank and file voters who •re "stymied by the corrupt machines af the two old parties" for support, the...
Paid articleClaude Wickard Gets Wallace's Cabinet Post
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Thomas Finds Willkie Speech 'Stick of Candy' Wendell Willkie's "acceptance speech" was a classic example "of "a stick of candy for everybody," Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President,...
Paid articleDon't Gambie With America's Fleet...
Is Our Defense Lagging? AT A CONGRESSIONAL hearing a few days ago, Mr. William .j. Knudsen, towering, grey-mus-tached Danish immigrant with 18th-century manners, estimated that the present armament...
Paid articleRegister For Jobs In Defense Work, Bob Tells Labor
Remove Secrecy From Military Talks, Bob Asks Sen. Robert M. La Follette, Jr., Wisconsin Progressive, demanded last week that the public be informed of current negotiations with the British...
Paid articleBill Nathenson Directs Campaign For Christenson
j Bankers Milked Depressed Road Of $9,500,000 While stockholders of the Missouri Pacific Railroad company haven't found the venture very profitable, Kuhn, Loeb and Co., New York bankers, cleaned up...
Paid articleJackson Warns Against Hatch Violations
Robinson Named New TVA Treasurer Horace K. Robinson has been appointed treasurer of the Tennessee Valley Authority, according to an announcement by Gordon R. Clapp, TVA General Manager Robinson...
Paid articleRevamping Nation's Economy Our Best; Defense- - Socialists
Roosevelt Gains In Gallup Poll President Roosevelt has gained four states in the Gallup poll since the first nation-wide survey on Aug. 4. They are Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, and Connecticut. Will-kie...
Paid articleTHE PEOPLES FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM New Party Need Acute Dear Sirs: The need for united action for purposes of defense by all political parties is agreed to by people of every shade of opinion. With the onward...
Paid articleCOOPERATIVE MOVEMENT
The Power of The President !_-By OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD-• "The American Constitution does not advantage the Presidency. Its nolder, Mr. Laski concludes, 'must he given power commensurate to the...
Paid articleBalkan Co-ops Thrive Despite War Conditions
If M-Day Comes, America Will Be A Very Different Country If the United States should go -to war, if Mobilization Day should come—from that day on, Americans would "live in a different society,"...
Paid article200 Patron Cooperatives
Wagner Seeks Social Security Liheraliza Hon The social security program was ' five years old last week, and Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York celebrated th ; event by introducing legislation...
Paid articleFood Gougers Face Monopoly Prosecutions
Culture Will Center Here, Dr. Ely Predicts i,r. v.iy When Europe's war is over, no matter who wins, the world's center of culture and civilization will move to this continent and "probably will...
Paid articleFarm Bureau Raps Business Defense Stall
TVA, AFL Sign Trail Blazing Pact Covering 8,000 Men A trail-blazing far-reaching agreement between the TVA management and fifteen A F of L unions was hailed last week as a precedent and model for...
Paid articlePace Of National Defense Too Slow For Majority
Co-op Sacrifices Profits To Help Union Victory Another instance of collaboration between cooperatives and organized labor came to a happy ending at Duluth recently when teamsters, with the aid of...
Paid articleVeterans' Leader Lauds Bob, Jr., As Real Friend
Polk-Burnett Gets $146,000 RE A Grant Rep. B. J. Gehrmann, Mellen, Progressive Congressman from the 10th district, announced last'week that an RE A allotment of $146,000 has been approved for Polk,...
Paid articleA ROOM OF OUR OWN
A ROOM OF OUR OWN By JUST AS ONE becomes interested in a disease wken it comes close to him, I have thought many times this past week of the biographers who calmly state of their subject: "In 1892...
Paid articleTHINGS We've Enjoyed . ..
Women Urged To Use Their Voting Power T TRGENT appeals to women to use their political power- in defense of democracy w~re expressed by Secretary "of Labor Frances Perkins and othei.- women...
Paid articleRelax-You'll Be Lovelier
Our American Government ATEWSPAPERS are full of Congressional debate on conscription, and Americans eagerly follow news of this and every other phase of the national defense program. But as we...
Paid articleOur American Government
Moral The Sales Tax Kills An Octopus, Jams Up System The sales tax killed Oscar, a 14-foot octopus in the aquarium in Toledo, Ore. Tourists loved to flip sales tax tokens into Oscar's pool to...
Paid articleMilwaukee, Kenosha Progressive Women Rally For Campaign
THE VOTE Why I Believe It's Important L- By ELIZABETH GUMMERUS— The Progressive has asked a number of women to express their views en the importance of voting. We hope you will clip these...
Paid articleShe Hasn't Missed A Vote Since 1920
Think For Yourself In Politics, Start Now, Writer Pleads Start your political education now, not a week before election, urges Ruth Redstrom in her interesting column, "One Woman's View", in "The...
Paid articleThe PROGRESSIVE
The PROGRESSIVE With which is combined La Follette's Magazine, Kicking The Facts Around AS A CANDIDATE for public office, Gov. Heil is a dangerous antagonist chiefly because he. doesn't let the...
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