Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-20 | Page 4 | Political Action

I .POLITICAL ACTION. , - - . j Labor is placing more and more dependence in political action. 1 At St. Paul, Labor has just won another victory. In the recent city primary there William .Mahoney, Labor candidate for mayor, won by a big vote over the present 'mayor. The, candidate supported by he reactionaries was a poor third. In addition, lour candidates for the city council, supported by labor, were the four highest among 21 candidates. This is the second victory for the Working People s Nonpartisan Political League in Minnesota. The league now has 60.000 mcmbcrr. Lts first victory was the election last summer of Oscar E. Keller to congress over old-line Republican and Democratic candidates. Minnesota during the last two years has had less strike trouble, than almost any other large industrial section of tlu country. There my be some connection between the labor victories at the polls and the lessening of industrial warfare.