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...opponents, a champion by his friends, is a potent vote getter. Mr. Langer, once Mr. Nye's good friend, called him a Peace "racketeer," a Washington nonentity who got nothing for his State. Mr. Nye, who has built up his own Progressive Republican machine after surrendering the old Non-Partisan League to Mr. Langer, retorted that the Langer administration at Bismarck was full of graft. One mistake Mr. Langer made: he quarreled with able Representative William Lemke of Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act fame. For two days the wheat waved to & fro while the ballots were counted. The result...
...Hopkins, for whom I have always had a high regard, is supposedly carrying out a Governmental relief program on a non-partisan and non-political basis. Yet his statement says in effect to the relief workers in Iowa: 'You people ought to vote for Mr. Wearin and vote against Senator Gillette...
Independent of the H.S.U., but drawing heavily from its ranks for membership, the organization has been formed to organize student opinion in Massachusetts to aid the Non-Partisan Labor League, backed by both the A.F. of L. and the C.I.O., in supporting progressive candidates from both parties...
Other activities projected include research for the Non-Partisan League with end of presenting voters with a historical study of the labor movement and with an analysis of issues in the campaign, particularly economic ones...
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...