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	Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Farmer-Labor Party was a political party of Minnesota.
		The party platform called for: protection for farmers and labor union members, government ownership of some industries and social security laws.
		The Minnesota Democratic Party led by Hubert H. Humphrey was able to merge the Farmer-Labor party with the Minnesota Democratic Party in 1944.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minnesota_Farmer-Labor_Party (487 words)

	Farmer-Labor party. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The party’s platform called for the public ownership of railroads, utilities, and natural resources; an end to private banking; and the nationalization of unused land.
		The party made a poor showing in the 1920 election; its main strength lay in the states of Washington, Montana, and South Dakota.
		Remaining aloof from the national party of the same name, it established a permanent party structure in 1922.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fa/FarmerLa.html (333 words)

	Encyclopedia: Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
		Other important party members include US Senator Eugene McCarthy, who ran for the Democratic Party nomination in 1968 as the anti-Vietnam War candidate, and US Senator Paul Wellstone, known during his years in the Senate (1991-2002) as that body's chief voice of populist progressivism[1].
		The Republican Party of Minnesota, as its name implies, is the Minnesota branch of the United States Republican Party.
		The Independence Party of Minnesota (often abbreviated IP or IPM), formerly the Reform Party of Minnesota, is the third largest political party in Minnesota, behind the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) and Republican Party.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Minnesota-Democratic_Farmer_Labor-Party (1231 words)

	Saskatchewan’s 1944 CCF Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The party was based on the example of the British Labor Party.
		It differed from the Labor Party in its attempt to meld the interest of the working class with farmers.
		Early Labor parties had to deal with the fact that industrial socialism was often unwilling to accommodate the economic needs of agriculture.
	scaa.usask.ca /gallery/election/farmer.htm (281 words)

	Response to an Inquiry by Minnesota Farmer Labor Party Activist - V.R. DUNNE / A Rebel in Thought - Autobiography of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		A labor party, or a farmer-labor party, in order to escape the fate of absorption or control by the bosses' parties, must be controlled by the organizations of workers, that is, by the trade unions.
		The shattering of the Farmer-Labor Party in November 1938 (it was not merely an electoral defeat) was the inevitable culmination of a course shaped by politicians, compromisers of all sorts, and outright charlatans.
		When the Labor Party, or Farmer-Labor Party, comes back into Minnesota, it will be as part of a nation-wide movement based on and dominated by the mass trade unions, dispossessed farmers' organizations, and unemployed sections affiliated with the trade unions.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/V-R-Dunne-Colvin1944.htm (1231 words)

	Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The party had a good deal of success in Minnesota.
		Labor, Politics, and African American Identity in Minneapolis, 1930-1950.
		Naftalin, Arthur A. A History of the Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Farmer-Labor_Party (487 words)

	Controversial Questions in the Workers Party of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The present isolation of the Workers Party and the crippling of the Trade Union Educational League are due to the ill-advised attempts to found the “class” farmer-labor party of industrial workers and poor farmers in the absence of mass sentiment for such a party.
		He describes his group as the section of the party which “stresses the necessity of the alliance with the farmers,” as against the Foster-Cannon group, “which emphasizes the necessity of an alliance with the labor aristocracy.” By “labor aristocracy,” comrade Pepper means the present trade union movement of America.
		In the midst of the opportunistic adventures of the Pepper-Ruthenberg group amongst the farmers, the present majority of the CEC sounded a note of warning against this shifting of the base of the party activities from the workers to the farmers, and fought against this tendency.
	www.marxists.org /archive/cannon/works/1925/questions.htm (11101 words)

	Milton Fisk: Socialism From Below in the US (1. Communist Party in the 20s)
		This added momentum to the movement to form a Communist party, which was also promoted by labor unrest in 1919 – the Seattle general strike, the Lawrence textile strike, and In the fall the steel strike.
		The Communists, whose party was at this point called the Worker’s Party, were to cooperate with the Farmer-Labor Party, based in Chicago, to form a new national party in 1923.
		Party divisions corresponded to geographical electoral divisions: there were state parties, city locals, and branches within locals matching wards.
	www.marxists.de /trotism/fisk/ch1.htm (1764 words)

	Farmer-Labor Movement History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Section: 1.2 Labor Forges a Political Movement While Non-Partisan League organizers were stumping rural communities around the state, gathering strength for the challenge in the Republican primaries of Spring 1918, events propelled much of organized labor into an alliance with their militant country cousins.
		The Farmer- Laborites, however, kept their coalition together, won a strong foothold in the legislature, and established themselves as the second party in the state.
		The Communist Party was born out of the great split in the house of socialism that occurred with the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
	justcomm.org /fla-hist.htm (19129 words)

	FARMER-LABOR PARTY (1918-1924) history of the various F-L Parties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The convention call was issued to trade untions, state Farmer-Labor Parties, the Non-Partisan League, the Socialist Party, and the Workers Party, The FLP was frustrated with the timidity of the CPPA and the refusal of that organization to enter into independent electoral politics and sought to establish a national organization through other means.
		In the middle of June 1923, a subcommittee of the CEC of the Workers Party of America met with a sub-committee of the Farmer-Labor Party.
		A Convention of the loyal members of the Farmer-Labor Party was called for that same time and place, where it aimed to cooperate with the CPPA in the formation of a labor party.
	www.marxists.org /subject/usa/eam/farmerlaborparty.html (1627 words)

	Farmer-Labor Party
		The Farmer-Labor Party was formed in 1920 by John Fitzpatrick, leader of the Federation of Labor in Chicago.
		Olson was expected to be the party's presidential candidate in 1936 but unfortunately was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died later that year.
		After his death the party began to disintegrate and in 1944 the organization was absorbed into the Democratic Party.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAfarmerlabor.htm (309 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Farmer-Labor Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Farmer-Labor Party, political party in the United States, established to represent the interests of workers and farmers.
		Populism, United States agrarian movement of the late 19th century that developed mainly in the area from Texas to the Dakotas and grew into a...
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	encarta.msn.com /Farmer-Labor_Party.html (191 words)

	Farmer-Labor Party -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		in U.S. history (1918–44), a minor political party of Minnesotan small farmers and urban workers, which supported Robert M. La Follette in the 1924 presidential election and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936.
		An outgrowth of the Nonpartisan League (q.v.), the Farmer–Labor Party began nominating candidates for the Minnesota legislature in 1918.
		Includes news updates; the journalFront Lines; party policy statements; details on the principles, history, and structure of the party; a list of members of Parliament; an explanation of the lawmaking process; and related links.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9033755?tocId=9033755 (818 words)

	MNHS.ORG \| Library \| History Topics \| Farmer-Labor Movement
		The Farmer-Labor movement in Minnesota is an unlikely coalition of two seemingly disparate groups, rural and urban, that found common cause and united in pursuit of their goals.
		Third parties in American politics are not noted for their longevity, but this group proved an exception to the rule.
		In 1943, the Farmer-Labor Party merged with the Democratic Party to form the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party of Minnesota.
	www.mnhs.org /library/tips/history_topics/100farmer.html (934 words)

	The Nation, 08/07/1920 - The Farmer-Labor Party by Buck, Robert M.
		The U.S. Farmer-Labor Party recognizes its mission to be an attempt to end class politics, class parties, and class government in the United States.
		At present, the exploiters control the two old parties, by financing them equally-supporting them for the purpose of fooling the voters with false issues and thereby keeping the exploited divided, so that they cannot function unitedly in politics.
		...The Farmer-Labor Party By ROBERT M. BUCK THE Farmer-Labor Party recognizes its mission to be an attempt to end class politics, class parties, and class government in the United States...
	www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v111i2875_06.htm (1067 words)

	Farmer-Labor Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		in U.S. history (1918-44), a minor political party of Minnesotan small farmers and urban workers, which supported Robert M. La Follette in the 1924 presidential election and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936.
		Several state senators and representatives were elected from the party, which became a federation in 1923.
		The party merged with the Democrats to form the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in 1944.
	www.search.eb.com /elections/micro/203/83.html (128 words)

	DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR PARTY: An Inventory of Its State Central Committee Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
		Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) was officially formed on April 15, 1944, the result of a merger of the exisitng Democratic Party and the Farmer-Labor Party.
		The electoral success of the party has ebbed and flowed since the late 1970s, in part due to the DFL's adoption of proportional voting as part of the national Democratic Party reforms initiated in the early 1970s, which fueled the emergence and power of single-issue splinter groups within the party structure.
		Party officers, which lead the SCC and EC, are elected every two years at state conventions.
	www.mnhs.org /library/findaids/00586.html (2741 words)

	Farmer-Labor Party - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The party had a good deal of success in the politics of Minnesota.
		Three governors and four United States Senators of Minnesota were members of the party.
		The Minnesota Democratic Party lead by Hubert H. Humphrey was able to merged the Farmer-Labor party with the state's Democratic party in 1944.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Farmer-Labor_Party (136 words)

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	Minnesota's DFL Senate, County and Congressional Districts
		A Democratic Farmer Labor precinct caucus is when people who live in that precinct and generally agree with the DFL ideals meet to discuss issues, begin defining political agendas, endorse candidates for state and national offices and conduct party business.
		The person must not be an active member of any other political party.
		The person must agree with the DFL principles as stated in the State DFL Constitution and Bylaws.
	www.mndfl.org (332 words)

	DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR PARTY OF MINNESOTA
		Unseated alternates and visitors shall be seated separately from delegates and shall not be allowed on the Convention floor during the Convention.
		All candidates and their representatives (using floor passes) must leave the Convention floor at the time that ballots are distributed.
		If none of the nominees for an office receives a majority vote on a ballot, the nominee with the least number of votes will be dropped on the next ballot, provided that at least two candidates remain on that ballot.
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	ICT [2005/10/21] INDN's List seeks Native candidates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Free calls herself a ''dyed in-the-wool, yellow-dog Democrat,'' and she is working closely with Democratic Party leaders.
		Party loyalty hasn't kept her from criticizing Democrats' treatment of Indians, however.
		Detailed training in several sessions fell to Peggy Flanagan, White Earth, who is the director of community outreach for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and a member of the Minneapolis School Board; and Jill Sherman-Warne, California's Native American Heritage commissioner and the Pechanga Tribe's director of environment.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096411778 (780 words)

	Saskatchewan's Top News Stories: Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		FILLMORE, Sask, June 26.--A resolution asking that the name of the Farmer-Labor party be changed to “The C.C.F., Saskatchewan Section,” was given endorsation at a convention of the Farmer-Labor party for Francis constituency held here Friday.
		It was decided that nomination of a candidate be deferred to a later date, as it was felt that the constituency was not thoroughly organized as yet.
		Horner outlined his stand on the Farmer-Labor economic policy, and declared that he could support practically all of it with the exception of the land policy, which he stated would be a first class thing, but he did not think that it could be put into operation as quickly as was proposed by the party.
	library.usask.ca /sni/stories/pol24.html (210 words)

	Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party or (DFL) was created in 1944 when the Minnesota Democratic Party and Farmer-Labor Party merged to create the DFL.
		The party is affilated with the national Democratic Party.
		Minneapolis Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey and Walter Mondale, who each served as United States Senator and Vice President of the United States were important members the party.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Democratic-Farmer-Labor_party (107 words)

	farmer labor party
		Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) was created on April 15, 1944 when the Minnesota.
		Farmer-Labor Party in US history (1918–44), a minor political party of Minnesotan small farmers and urban workers, which supported Robert M. La Follette in …
		… The Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota, by Howard Allen Merritt.
	www.absolutegage.com /farmer-labor-party.html (424 words)

	Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Farmer-Labor Party was a political party of (A midwestern state) Minnesota.
		The Minnesota (The older of two major political parties in the United States) Democratic Party led by (Click link for more info and facts about Hubert H. Humphrey) Hubert H. Humphrey was able to merge the Farmer-Labor party with the Minnesota Democratic Party in 1944.
		Since 1944 the two parties together make up the (Click link for more info and facts about Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party) Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Mi/Minnesota_Farmer-Labor_Party1.htm (348 words)

	DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR PARTY OF MINNESOTA
		Upon all matters not governed by the Official Minneapolis DFL Convention Call, the State DFL Party Constitution and Bylaws, the Minneapolis City DFL Party constitution and bylaws, and these Rules, Robert’s Rules of Order most recently revised shall govern.
		Upon application to the Credentials Committee chair, each candidate for endorsement for public office or party office being considered at this Convention shall be allotted two floor passes.
		DFL incumbents holding, or declared DFL candidates for, Federal, Statewide, Citywide or Countywide offices and party dignitaries may address the Convention at the discretion of the Convention chair, but only to the extent that these speeches do not impede the business of the convention.
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