Communists direct Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party charged before Dies Committee. Washington, D.C., Oct. 17. Appearing before the House Committee investigating the Un-American activities today, Steve Gadler, St. Paul, Minn., consulting engineer, charged that Communists actively direct the Minnesota Farmer Labor Party through strategic party offices. He asserted that Communists were active on the University of Minnesota campus, through the Marxist club and other groups, and actively disseminate Communist propaganda in the student body, 10/17/38