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Last week, Governor Floyd Bjerstjerne Olson of Minnesota, his patience exhausted, turned up Minneapolis' skirts and spanked her because she stubbornly refused to settle her three-week-old truck drivers' strike. His authority to spank grew out of his declaration of martial law for the city a fortnight ago. The spanking took the form of an order sweeping from her streets all trucks except those bearing milk, ice, bread, fuel, newspapers, cinema films and necessities of life...
...hard-boiled labor-hating Citizens Alliance of the employers, accused it of owning the Minneapolis press and city government, of inciting the police to shoot 50 strike pickets (TIME, July 30). As protection against the intention of employers to use police ruthlessly to crush the strike, Labor asked martial law and Governor Olson declared it, forbade picketing, forbade the movement of trucks except by military permit...
Managing the strike by martial law was not as easy as Governor Olson had anticipated. Despite his prohibition, pickets scooted about in cars, overturned trucks, beat drivers. Soon 150 pickets had been arrested and interned in a stockade at the State Fair Grounds. Although Governor Olson angrily denounced the Citizens Alliance, the union protested...
...Scab trucks are operating with military permits in ever-increasing numbers. Despite all his harsh words directed at the employers, Governor Olson directs all his harsh blows at the union and the strike." Governor Olson, who loves to proclaim his radicalism, found that martial law was gaining him no kudos with Labor. Finally he issued an ultimatum that unless the employers came to terms he would stop all truck movements. He kept his word. The strikers were delighted that troops should do their work of stopping truck movements. The employers bitterly demanded an injunction from the Federal District Court forbidding...
...Board of Tax Assessors, advised citizens to ignore the Walmsley board's assessments. Finally Boss Long prodded Governor Allen into a moral crusade against Mayor Walmsley, charging that his police had protected bawdy houses, dice games, other iniquities. As a final blow the Governor, early last week, declared "partial" martial law in New Orleans, marched in his guardsmen, seized the office of the local registrar of voters, "purged" the rolls of some 24,000 names which would undoubtedly "vote Walmsley" in the September primary...