Reader Sees End of Liberalism in Democratic Party, Urges Formation of CCF for '48
POLLACK, SYLVAN
LETTERS To the Editor Reader Sees End of Liberalism in Democratic Party, Urges Formation of CCF for '48 from SYLVAN POLLACK To th* Bdittw: Henry Wallace's defeat at the national convention of...
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...Soloist, Josef Lhevinne, pianist "Raman Carnival" Overture, Berlios...
...The returns showed (15 per rent of the voters fsvoring Wallace, while Truman was at the bottom of the list with only 2 per cent...
...The hand of the White House hung over the convention from the dsy it opened...
...Tony Galueci is sn illiterate bum whose cousin Nick hsd been hanged at Jul let...
...Editors Not*: We feel that Mr...
...this is no new discovery...
...The poll tax mutt go...
...One does not have to agree with everything that Wallace has said in his speeches ia the past...
...All-Tchaikovsky Program (by request): Polonaise from "Eugen On eg in...
...Holding over in person are Perry Co mo and Jerry Wald and his orchestra heading a show which features Ginny Powell, Dick Merrick, the smaiing Mr...
...A gang of hoys killed a detective in a tea room stickup...
...licsns, they will not gsin anything...
...Thus Mr...
...In pressing his nomination his sponsors on the floor, stressed his efficient work as an investigator...
...No mention waa made of the vital issues now facing the 13,000,000 Negroes of this country...
...Indeed, the whole book, while it is sincere and miles above the pot-boiler school of novels dealing with crime and city life, has a minor league aspect...
...Ths contest between Wallace and Roosevelt was more than a fight between the two men...
...Two Aramaic Poems, McDonald (first time at the Stadium...
...To begin with, the boys are such bad actors that one questions whether the mere fsct of a job, or a little "better break," as ths saying goes, would deter any of them from evil wsys...
...they're strictly "easy money" guys...
...From that time until July 21, when the city bosses and the southern delegations put Truman across, Hannegan worked night snd day for Truman...
...The letter thst Roosevelt wrote stating that he would have voted for 1 Wallace if he was a delegate, was a farce...
...We believe, too, that Mr...
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...I T is an impelling, dramatic situation, but Mr...
...The defeat of Roosevelt and Truman in 1944 would be a healthy sign that enough liberal and labor voters would not accept the rotten actions of Roosevelt and his friends of the Hsnnegan-Kelly-Hsgue-Pendergast-Flynn clique...
...Marche Slav: Overture-Fantasy "Romeo and Juliet...
...When spesking, Wallace does not weigh his words as a wand heeler would when addressing the convention...
...They got plenty inside their own hesds without they should know what is in your head...
...But if that is true in Roosevelt's esse, it is equally true for Wallace...
...Wiener's efforts to put his character's thoughts on paper in dialect result now and.then in such tortured passages as this: "Honest men, not beggars, sold apples on street corners...
...Thst is s good argument for re-electing the President...
...If the labor and liberal forces support ths shoddy Roosevelt-Truman ticket with its progrsm, which in some ways is inferior to thst of the old Guard Repul...
...Let us start building it now, so it can enter candidates in the nstional campaign of 1948...
...Consequently the President hss been in the middle of a tug-of-war...
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...ThERE was a murder en the lower East Side a few years age that had all ths slssssaU of a penetrating novel about the Mew York slums...
...When the United States entered the war, Roosevelt publicly announced thst the New Deal was deed...
...Fred MacMurray and Betty Hutton, is now in its third week at the N. Y. Paramount...
...The rest of the votes were divided among six ethers, including Berkley, Rayburn, ByrS and Douglas...
...The book abounds both in dialogue and dialect, which is easy resding but csn be painful, too...
...Shortly afterward Wallace spoke, stating that the New Deal would continue...
...Monday, July 31 (in case of rain this program postponed until next clear night)—Fabian Scvitsy, conductor (Stadium debut...
...BETWEEN TWO WORLDS" HtADS SHOW AT RKO "Between Two Worlds," starring John Garfield, Paul Henreid and Fsye Emerson, shares screen honors with the farce-comedy, •Make Your Own Bed," featuring Jack Carson, Irene Manning and Jane Wyman, at the RKO Manhattan, Bronx snd Westchester Theatres this week...
...It says: "We believe that racial and religious minorities hsve the right to live, develop end vote equally with sll citissns snd shsre the rights thst srs gusranteed by our Constitution...
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...That sounds like some of the propaganda of the Republicans for Dewey, who constantly mention Dewey's activities as an investigator and prosecutor...
...Eddie (Belly foot) Richards is a neighborhood tough guy whose father is losing his sight from the wounds of World Wsr I. Benny Schimel's family once prospered and lived stylishly in Washington Heights...
...In fact, some of the southern delegates wslked out in protest To satisfy the Jim Crow sections of the party, the convention adopted a weak plsnk on the race question...
...Benny, a weak character, fell in easily with the comer gsng when the depression forced the family back into the slums...
...The gang bespoke the mixed millions of the city: a Pole, s Russian, a Jew, an Italian, an Irishman...
...legislstion pending for the eetab-lishment of a permanent Fair Employment Practice Commission...
...Wiener doesn't mske much of s esse for ths theme that poverty breeds crime...
...With the exception of being chairman of the Senate Committee investigating Wsr Contracts, Truman is a colorless individual who prior to the convention was unknown to most voters of the country...
...For the past twelve years, the Democratic Party has included the southern bourbons and the big city machine politicians ss well aa the labor groups...
...We agree, however, about the need for e new liberal-labor party on the national scene...
...When his boss was convicted of evading income tax and 35 of his Ward heelers were ssnt to Jsil, Truman said: "I am not the one to desert the ship...
...Equsl educational opportunities must come...
...In 1944, Roosevelt feels thst he has the labor and liberal vote safs in his pocket, snd now needs to appssse the city political bosses and the reactionary South...
...Pollack is unduly fearful about Senator Truman...
...Sunday, July 30 — Alexander Smallens, conductor...
...In a political, educational and economic sense, there must be no inferior rsces...
...Ths methods used by Hannegan at times became so raw thst Richard Frankensteen, chairman of the Michigan delegation to the convention, publicly protested the dirty work of Mayer Kelly, Mayor Hague and Edward J. Flynn...
...On thst question Truman would come out second best...
...The situation indicates thst Roosevelt decided some time sgo be did not wsnt Wallace...
...As the first move hs named the obscure Robert E. Hsnnsgsn, who, like Truman, comes from Missouri, ss chairman of ths national committee...
...Congress should exert its full constitutionsl powers to protect those rights...
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...As fsr as the platform is concerned, there is silence on segregation and discrimination in the armed tore...
...AND THE ANGELS SING" HELD AT PARAMOUNT "And the Angels Sing," comedy with music co-starring Dorothy Tumour...
...Do people csre your heart ia breaking...
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...Truman Is s product of one of the wont political machines in ths country, the Pendergsst mob of Kansas City...
...Liberals snd laborites should realize that Roosevelt's repudiation of Wallace and his replacement by Truman mean that the Democratic Party is no more the party of liberal politics, also Roosevelt has shed his lsst vestigste of New Deal-ism...
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...In supporting Roosevelt in the past, liberals, Socialists snd labor men and women did so not because of the man, but for what he stood for...
...So, if the rank and file would have had any ssy in the matter, Wallace would have won hands down...
...In seconding the nomination of Roosevelt, he said: "The future belongs to those who go down the line unswervingly for the liberal principles of both political democracy and economic democracy regardless of race, color or religion...
...Ths boys come into their young manhood with no schooling to spesk of, no sim, no direction, no proper home influences, and, of course, no money...
...The book about the New York slums — Mr...
...And then to write a second letter to Hsnnegsn, in which hs said he would be glad to have Truman on the ticket, Roosevelt showed plainly that Truman was the men he wanted to be nominated...
...But the head of the house, the Old Gent, is s shiftless provider...
...Concerts begin • at 8:30 sharp...
...This is Max Schimel, s la Odets meditating on the turn in his fortunes...
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...In his job as head of ths Ssnats Committee^ investigating the National Defense Program, Senator Truman has shown sn integrity and resourcefulness thst promises much for the future...
...Wiener lets the reader down with some fast notes on a crime and four bad boys when he had a theme that called for handling oh a more ambitious scale...
...By not openly urging the dele-gstts to vote for Wallace at the ssms time, he indicated that he did not particularly want Wallace to win...
...But Roosevelt said otherwise...
...Pollack is unduly anxious in his analysis of the convention, and his counsel to refrain -from voting is merely the politics of despair, not liberal action...
...Instead they ahould expose the betrayal of Wallace...
...the penoing bill to abolish the poll tax and enti-lynching legislation...
...Then, via flashbacks, it sketches the lives of ths hoodlums involved...
...Their situation, as Mr...
...On July 19, the Gallup poll issued final returns of a poll taken among rank-and-file Democratic voters from cosst to coast...
...It should never happen Max Schimel should do it...
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...Wallace typified the New Deal, and that ia why Roosevelt wanted his defeat...
...One of the campaign slogans of the Democratic Party will be that Roosevelt should not be replaced at this time due to his experience...
...So who complains...
...The * background was the city that the slum-shocked know...
...Stadium Concerts Programs Seventh week of 1944 season, beginning July 30...
...One of the strongest cries against Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black was thst he had been a member of the Klan in order to gain political advantage...
...Wiener probably would insist thst this isn't wha* he was writing at all—is still to come...
...Books Big-City Melodrama By PAUL SLADE FOUB BOYS AND A GVN...
...He has completely sold out to the worst elements of the Democratic Party...
...Despite even high Administration pressure, Senator Truman persisted doggedly in exposing wartime frauds and ths insdequscy of the defense progrsm...
...This remark undoubtedly did not gsin any votes among the delegates, msny of whom were present because their state and city political bosses placed them in the delegstions...
...If any real liberals and New Dealers are candidates for local office, they should be voted for...
...No liberal, socialist or laborite should vote for Dewey and Bricker, but on Election Day refrain from voting for any national candidates...
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...It dees not even mention the word Negro...
...Ballantine, Jeanne Blanche and the Oxford Boys...
...As s delegate said in addressing the convention: "If we don't want to change the pitcher during the game, we should likewise keep the same catcher until the ball game is won...
...The future must ¦jring equsl wsges for equal work regardless of sex or race...
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...Wiener does pull all the stops—Johnny Doyle did a spell in a reformatory on a framed-up case, Benny Schimel might hsve followed the cleaner way of Washington Heights except for the bad times, etc.—bat the background material is too sketchy to register...
...What America needs is a party similar to the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation of Canada...
...The answer to the problem is not, st this time, to let go of the labor end of the rope, but to pull ell the herder...
...Politics it a queer jungle and men make their way through the underbrush following strange paths...
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...The novel opens with the murder of a policeman in a tavern stickup...
...A love story of four people on a strange ocean voyage, "Between Two Worlds" Includes Sydney Greenstreet Eleanor Parker, Edmund Gwenn and George Tobias in the supporting east...
...His style is virile, a mitture of alang and flights of reportorial straight-frora-the gutter prose, but the voice pleading for a better social order—if indeed it is—comes down to an ineffective, emotional outcry...
...By Hi/to re* Wiener...
...The quartet's brief criminal career starts with such petty deeds ss robbing taxicab drivers and storekeepers, mainly by brute force built on the rotten foundation of cheap whiskey, snd ends with the acquisition of a gun and the poor planning and poorer execution of the fatal tavern Stickup...
...Johnny Doyle is the product of a devout Catholic family...
...Wiener pictures it, is hopeless from the beginning...
...Yet Justice Black has been the staunchest liberal on the bench...
...So, playing machine politics in Us worst form, he discards ths msn, who today is what hs himself wss 12 years ago...
...Walts from "The Sleeping Beauty...
...This is no time for liberals to be "good soldiers" and accept the defeat of Wallace sitting down...
...LETTERS To the Editor Reader Sees End of Liberalism in Democratic Party, Urges Formation of CCF for '48 from SYLVAN POLLACK To th* Bdittw: Henry Wallace's defeat at the national convention of the Democratic Party means the deathknell of the Near Deal, and the ending of liberalism in the Democratic Party which began when Roosevelt was first elected President in 1032...
...Willard Wiener probably had that case in mind when he wrote "Four Boys and a Gun," for there are many inescapable similarities between the book and the real life crime and its components...
...Roosevelt has slapped the liberal and New Deal forces, and if re-elected with their support, also the support of the Negro vote, would look upon them with contempt...
Vol. 27 • July 1944 • No. 31
