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Minnesota is a strong Farmer-Labor State, but of late the Farmer-Labor Party has been straining at its internal hyphen. Earnest, hard-boiled Governor Elmer A. Benson is a favorite in the Twin Cities and with the miners of the northern iron ranges. He is less popular with many a farmer suspicious of the Governor's city ways, his enthusiasm for organized labor even when it takes money out of farm pockets. Hero of such conservative Farmer-Laborites is bespectacled Hjalmar Petersen, onetime lieutenant governor who served four months as Governor after the death of Boss Floyd Olson...
...refused to let Governor Elmer Benson get control of 60,000 Minnesota jobs for his Farmer-Labor Party, to help him get re-elected in November. Chief quarrel between Mr. Christgau and Mr. Benson had been over a $700,000 project to have 2,000 or more WPA laborers eradicate weeds-notably leafy spurge, creeping jenny-from Minnesota farms. Mr. Christgau announced he would be fired by no one but the President, who had hired him. Forced to choose between Victor Christgau and the Farmer-Labor vote in Minnesota, the President wrote a curt note, demanded Administrator Christgau...
Like the late Huey Long, Minnesota's late Farmer-Labor Boss Floyd Bjornsjerne Olson left some mutually unfriendly political heirs. The de facto inheritor of the Olson mantle is serious, bespectacled Governor Elmer Austin Benson, who is engaged in a struggle for renomination in the June 20 primary. Opposed to him is Farmer-Labor's more conservative faction, whose Candidate Hjalmar Petersen was Governor for a few months in 1936 following the death of Governor Olson and who once quit the party because he thought it was going Communist. Last week the fight shifted to a new front...
...telegraph. He announced that the real reason for the ouster was not his "meddling in politics," as Governor Benson and Senator Ernest Lundeen had charged, but his refusal to be "kicked upstairs" to a job in Washington, which Administrator Hopkins had offered him fortnight before. Minnesota's Farmer-Labor chieftains, said Mr. Christgau, wanted his job before the primary because there are only 17,759 Jobs on the State payroll but 60,000 on WPA. Candidate Petersen immediately took Mr. Christgau's part. So did Republican State Chairman W. M. Parker. So did three Democratic candidates for Governor...
Thus Communists this year will support Farmer-Labor Progressives in Wisconsin and Minnesota, American Labor Party candidates in New York, C. I. O. Non-Partisan League indorsees everywhere. Just how far the Party will go to obtain or retain a foothold in its own "Democratic Front" was made clear last week after the defeat of Communist-indorsed C. I. O. candidates in Pennsylvania. Rather than put up certain losers in the Fall elections, the Party ordered all good Communists to vote for the regular Democratic nominees, including Governor-Nominate Charles Alvin Jones...