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An article by Larry D. Engelmann about the 1933 Hormel strike, organized by the IWW-influenced Independent Union of All Workers (IUAW).

These days, statues are coming down and buildings and monuments are being re-named as leftists scour the historical record for evidence of nonconformity with today's conventional wisdom. Generally, I have little sympathy for this project, in part because I scoff at the idea that our forebears were less moral than we are. I do make exceptions, however: there is a statue of former Governor Floyd B. Olson on the grounds

Walter Mondale’s Visionary Liberalism Is Still Echoing Today He pushed for universal daycare and battled the filibuster. And yet he spent most of his presidential campaign pretending to be more of a centrist than he actually was. Evening Standard / Getty Images Walter Mondale, shortly after Jimmy Carter chose him as his running mate in the 1976 presidential election Minnesota’s Walter Mondale, who died Monday night at 93, was the embodiment of a strand of full-throated liberalism that defined the Democratic Party for much of the last half of the twentieth century. Like his mentor Hubert...

Family says former Vice President Walter Mondale has died at 93 Mondale made his biggest mark as the vice president who converted that office from a historical joke — Vice President John Nance Gardner famously described it as a job that wasn’t “worth a pitcher of warm spit” — to one of the vital centers in American government. Written By: Bill Salisbury / St. Paul Pioneer Press | 8:12 pm, Apr. 19, 2021 × Former Vice President Walter Mondale listens to speakers during a dedication ceremony in October 2019 at the William O'Brien State Park in Marine on Saint Cro...

Walter Mondale, who rose from small-town Minnesota to vice presidency, dies at 93 By Patrick Condon, Patrick Condon April 19, 2021 — 9:09pm Text size Copy shortlink: Walter F. Mondale, a preacher's son from southern Minnesota who climbed to the pinnacle of U.S. politics as an influential senator, vice president and Democratic nominee for president, died on Monday. He was 93. Known as Fritz to family, friends and voters alike, Mondale died in Minneapolis, according to a statement from his family. "As proud as we were of him leading ...