Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their frantic attempts to bait the independent vote, which amounts to 600,000, both candidates have sung loud the song of progressivism. Mr. Curley boasts the support of the A.F. of L. and other state labor groups and accuses his opponent of an anti-labor record as state representative from 1923 to 1928. Mr. Saltonstall defends himself by pointing to the bulk of progressive legislation enacted from 1928 to 1936, when he was Speaker of the House, and by claiming that the labor legislation he opposed previously was either unsound or beneficial to some favored bloc. These facts serve...
...attract the independents with a "liberal" proposal, the Republicans have seemingly embraced the Townsend Plan. Actually, they favor only a hearing in Congress, believing that the President will in the end blackball it. For labor's sake Mr. Saltonstall desires to eliminate the red tape in the employees' compensation law and to clean up the fly-by-night employment agencies. In addition, he hopes to remove the bad spots from the civil service and to provide reasonable old-age compensation. These intentions do not paint an administrator vibrant with reform zeal, but they do show one who will refrain from...
...laughing waters called Minnehaha, in Minnesota were merrily roaring last week, the windup of Minnesota's gubernatorial campaign was sufficient reason. That spectacle had reached a point where Farmer-Labor Governor Elmer A. Benson, stung by his Republican opponent's charges that the Farmer-Labor administration was a corrupt city slicker machine, hurled back the worst epithet he could think of, called burly young Republican Harold E. Stassen a "drugstore cowboy." As fantastic were Republican Stassen's chief campaign planks against the most successful Farmer-Labor party in the U. S. : he promised: 1) a State Labor...
Candidate Benson worries not so much about the 125,000 votes Stassen polled in the Republican primary as the 210,000 votes polled by insurgent ex-Governor Hjalmar Petersen in the Farmer-Labor primary. Insurgent Petersen, who thinks he and not "Radical" Elmer Benson is the rightful heir of Farmer-Labor's late, great Boss Floyd Olson, has pointedly failed to make his peace with the Governor. Other insurgent Farmer-Laborites have emphasized the split by testifying before the Dies Committee in Washington that today's Farmer-Labor party is riddled with Communism...
Apparent losers in any combination were Democratic Candidate Thomas Gallagher (campaigning for $50 pensions for Minnesotans over 60) and Democrat Franklin Roosevelt. The President failed to accommodate Elmer Benson, a vociferous New Dealer, by scratching the Democratic slate in favor of Farmer-Labor as he did in 1936. With no similar New Deal deal in sight last week, Twin Cities betting odds, hitherto favoring the well-oiled Benson machine 10-to-9, dropped to even money...