The "Red Menace" in Minnesota.

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  • Author(s): Thane, Eric
  • Source:
    Nation. 10/17/1934, Vol. 139 Issue 3615, p435-436. 2p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      GOVERNMENT ownership; NATURAL resources; LABOR parties; POLITICAL parties; OLSON, Floyd Bjorstjerne, 1891-1936; GOVERNORS
    • Subject Terms:
      SAINT Paul (Minn.); MINNESOTAReport Available; UNITED StatesReport Available
    • Abstract:
      On March 28, 1934 the Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota, in convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota brought forth one of the most remarkable political documents of contemporary time, considering the fact that it was the creation of a party in power. The adoption of that program followed by one day the outspoken declaration to the delegates of Governor Floyd B. Olson, "I am not a liberal. I am what I want to be, a radical." With that he urged sweeping public ownership of natural resources and wealth-producing agencies. And the delegates took him at his word. They were ready for a change. But the vested interests and their mouthpiece, the reactionary press, did not want a change, and their opposition to Floyd B. Olson and the Farmer-Labor Party brought about one of the bitterest political battles in Minnesota history, now nearing its final stages. At once they dragged out the familiar red herring of communism.