Farmer-Labor Party

These farmers brought a strong communal culture, resulting in a state political party called the Farmer-Labor Party as the main opposition to the Republicans until 1944 when the party merged with the Democratic Party to form the DFL.

Turkishdailynews Headlines 2008

The Democratic Party and Farmer-Labor Party were one and the same and produced such prairie progressives as Hubert Humphrey.

The Left Can't Have It Both Ways 2010

In fact, the Democrats in Minnesota TO THIS DAY are still called the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party to reflect the fact that the party was created by a merger of the Farmer-Labor Party and the Democratic Party in 1944 (at the behest of FDR.)

Coleman Declares Victory In Minnesota Senate Race, Recount Likely 2009

We have a powerful progressive tradition from Donnelly to Veblen to the Farmer-Labor Party, to the politics of Keillor.

Firedoglake » Greetings From the Fever Swamp 2006

The new Farmer-Labor Party becomes the second largest political party in Minnesota and capitalizes on the rural depression which plagues Minnesota until 1824 to gain a broad base of support.

Context Trish Short Lewis 2005

The new Farmer-Labor Party becomes the second largest political party in Minnesota and capitalizes on the rural depression which plagues Minnesota until 1824 to gain a broad base of support.

Archive 2005-12-01 Trish Short Lewis 2005

Browder and Foster visited Moscow in June 1937 to thrash out Party policy about a Farmer-Labor Party before Comintern leaders.

The Communist Party: An Exchange Gordon, Max 1983

It was exactly this image problem that forced the Farmer-Labor Party, after years of leading Minnesota politics, to join the Democrats.

Turkishdailynews Headlines 2008

Fitzpatrick was stuck in the middle between some fearful Farmer-Labor Party leaders, who reflected anticommunist prejudices, and the NY Communist leaders under Pepper's influence who regarded him as the enemy.

Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist Martin Wisse 2008

After the conference ended, all of the independents left the Farmer-Labor Party and it functioned as a typical front group of the kind that vanguard formations-whether Stalinist, Maoist or Trotskyist-have succeeded in building over the years.

Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist Martin Wisse 2008