The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN Whet» Mm M error WHm T«ti7 On October tl. Mm apace ni MM with ssnry ena-dmU an the Law Star State. The soaker, a ginswsli ef the UaJiwiHi af ?hgiala wW is new mm...
...The soaker, a ginswsli ef the UaJiwiHi af ?hgiala wW is new mm awnr i« Me U sited States Amay...
...Whereas in the civilian vote the Liberals ran al most neck and neck with the ALP, in the soldier totals, counted separately, they ran behind almost 10 to 1. » • * The pollsters got it in the neck this campaign...
...J. Henry Stamp, Reading's Socialist aayor, running for U.S...
...He has lived in Perth Worth, Dallas, Houston and Austin...
...Some of them became lawyers...
...Significantly-, most of as imwasned in the South...
...hap a en if ta as sail is Ik...
...The vote for Norman Thomas in New York waa 6,117, the lowest Socialist figure in more Man fifty yean...
...In Bridgeport, Thomas's rot* waa poor...
...A Marvin victory might have been the opafat chsnee to swing ths GOP away from the Dewey fore** • • * Louis P. Goldberg, SDF city chairman, running I" Congress in Brooklyn, polled 20,000 votes...
...The Fortune poll, which predicted 63.6 per cent for Roosevelt, hit it almost on the nose...
...The ALP, which two yean ago nominated Lamula, could hare given him Me margin of victory this year...
...The Liberals ran poorly among the soldier voters...
...To avoid any tsis-understondjnars, Private Rocwrd explains that he lived in Texas fer 22 yean...
...Still others, like myself, worked with labor organisations...
...He was not compelled to be the principal speaker at grans-roots polities] meetinga where he always gave "the interest*' one hell ef a going-over...
...It would have been easy far Bah Montgomery to drop his out-spoken opposition to the Texas Galf Sulphur Company, which monopolised the market for that product...
...At the University of Texas such men as Clarence Ay res, Robert Montgomery and E. E. Hale in the Department af Economics have taught their sabtorts as they saw them, largely ia the terms af institutional' economics...
...The rnult was 100,000 greater Man expectations...
...Ia tarn the ALP endorsed a Republican candidate, who won...
...Their stadeats have delved bam sb» tarsal patterns ef their ewa kwass towns, the — Mlaj_ ef factory workwn ia the miU villages and the patterm of trsda maiea irgiaiasllsa, "After iimahlhag theer work, many of them ham with sons* of their rhanrtoristic pesblsms...
...GOP had carved out the district in the hopes •f s Republican victory and made it with ALP support-In downtown Manhattan, however, the ALP knifed Republican John J. Lamula, Me most progressive mem-bar of Me Assembly, apparently because of a deal between Vito Mareantonio and Tammany district leader da Salvia...
...For confirmation see C. Wright Mills' piece on Intellectual» in one of the recent issues of Politic...
...The Liberal received 15,000 upstate to chalk up a total of 320,000...
...gw» wjwa^lllWaty awwaaw wa^ aiwaatita t utumal cUna U lar^Zntm, M Um l«rl «f wisag...
...In longrun terms the most significant fact regarding tha two-party total is that it comes to nearly 60 per cent of the Democratic vote in this City...
...He has a right to talk...
...Then, former Mayor Rollawi b. Marvin, a Willkie man...
...They an net...
...Emily Taft Douglas, over arch-isolationist Stephen A. Dsy...
...He was born there, and if ha survives the war he expects to live the root of his life there...
...Thin ihiif iiiflasan dsss not rest up in lbs artithm aad groat dmal iTneaat yean...
...For several yean he took a hand in the progressive social and political movements of the state, including the trade anion movement...
...In doing no they have encountered opposition from every quarter, the Board of Regents, the State Legislature, the largest newspapers in the State, and certainly from the Dies Committee...
...bad been lukewarm to Dervf, and Roosevelt swept the town...
...The American Labor Party, with strong CIO activity, polled 388,000 votes...
...In the Bronx Leo Issacsen scratched in ahead of his Democratic opponent, running on Me GOP and ALP line...
...Despite M* vicious campaign that the Mine Worker* Journal carried on against the Administration, the soft eosl miners in western Pennsylvania and the anthracite miners in the East turned in Mumping pluralities for Roosevelt...
...Liberal Party organization only began in earnest about two months ago...
...Me Socialist nominee receiving only 1448...
...Haaaar B. atesawy...
...Him Fish lost in upstate New York and the returns indicate the most satisfactory kind of victory, to t pre-election statement Fish declared that he would carry Rockland and Orange Counties but lose Sullivan County "where 90 per cent of race," meaning Jewish citizens, would vote against him...
...In Reading, where the Socialist Party supported Norman Thomas for the first time since 1986, hs n> reiver 2,100, which was 500 higher than his figure *f four years back...
...Agates* ta* gUomy ksittgl isi I *f sariaj flliterarj awl aa a skwnmg mar...
...Mml'ifeaa wM take aTa* uuna be will twi umt Mean m mm appi ma wfcnch h both bold aad thmrewgb ta each problems aa 1.......Ill , t"MsTM ^MaTnt*/ * wM~w>wMMMM Iff t aaVMMff y o • » Til asn ..»*w *Wt I ».t u rs...
...Out on the west coast, Helen Gahagan Douglas, wife of the movie actor, was sprinting ahead of her Republican opponent, while in Illinois, the Roosevelt tide was carrying to victory Mrs...
...Thane asew mm, aad rUH are, prmtarily leathers...
...The indicated Roosevelt electoral total of 407 votes was ahead of the 354 given FDR by Croasley, the 292 conceded by Gallup, and the 249 predicted by Newiweek experts...
...Pi Hi lint at taw Uairanrty of Team...
...Jasper MtLevy, Bridgeport Mayor running for Governor, totalled slightly more Man 4,000...
...Poison-pen O'Donnell, Daily ATewr, trumpeted.lewdly Mat Dewey would carry "well ever 300 electoral votes...
...So be comes with credentials...
...Private Record proceeds like this: "Your officer friend (let us refer to him as Captain) is correct in most of his factual data aa far aa he goea...
...In df-ywn, Reading's Socialist vote is normslly 7,0*8, • • • Returns from West Virginia and Pennsylvania hnH rate that John L. Lewis had as much effect on the miners' vote as he did four years ago...
...Inside and Out By MURRAY EVERETT Election Sidelights The most smating return in a series of startling results was Me tremendous vote Me new Liberal Party rolled up in N. Y. C. With two ether Roosevelt lines on the ballot, 306,000 voters bunted down to the bottom of Me machine to vote the Liberty Bell emblem...
...Dewey may not reach 124...
...The heat ewe raaae from Prtvmto Pint Chssa Cy Bacord, a forme* centiibwtor to The Mew Leader...
...Bath am aa Imjnrt Vsmee, Gay Jasmin aad Hwward *tUMm**m smoa awatf hi umini g other Maa Mm tanas af Ma haabaric swat aad lam eaasas...
...Its final poll gave Dewey 50.9 per cent and Roosevelt 49 I in New York Stste...
...Bat May da be lanes somewhat Ma Captain's swsttim Mat the spirit* ef rata lot train are warped aad their ereetivr energies sn terras to taking aad assd war king.1 But became they an •xcaptioaal, Man mo* could am a little suppart That ia why 1 have abort patience with mm who quickly thrwws ia the spang* aad retreats to the comforts af a sacra feathery political bed or a more ceatfertabW am 1ms ir atmosihars...
...My rather waatewt cuiiissiiiisil waa evidently net rismlntety ha errwr...
...The Socialist Labor Party ran ahead of Thomas, potting mon Man 11,000 votes...
...The Liberal Party loft the American Labor Party this spring after a coalition of Hill rasa and the Communists had captured Me ALP...
...Fish, surprisingly, carried Sullivan County but lost out heavily in Rockland County, an old-fashioned grass-roots American district...
...I tamhfc can safely he said that thee* men aad their streams atvw focuses' at teat ma where light baa bam Ucxa, tar along tun* "I am net saying Mat than man aad their sUdnstt an typical...
...But this does not apply to all of them...
...Pour years ago tha ALP received only about 25 per cent of the Democratic vote...
...Instead they split Me vote...
...The Captain is intensely, if not too accurately, aware of the limitations on academic freedom and serious social research in the colleges and universities of the state...
...The Socialist rot* in Bridgeport, in Me off years, is normally 20,000, which indicates the nature of the Roosevelt wind Mat blew through Mat town...
...Tjtey^hare ssesrek, sesaa ef it highly uwiismsi among these whs dsat like the picture drawn by hard sociological aad etotwtinal fact...
...Be ia as egi emits, bt...
...The examples which he cites could easily he multiplied...
...Tammany Hall, which has been fading in strength, had only fifty persons in its offices election night listening to returns...
...Some ef their actions involved participation in the Ad ministration ef New Deal measures...
...He has, in addition, traveled extensively in tha South' and Southwest in connection with work pertaining to industrisl and race relations...
...Bat the RooeeveR land-slide also cost Marvin a heat in Me State Senate where ha had been expected to spearhead the opposition to Dawey...
...But is this the complete picture...
...Privately, party leaden felt that a 200,000 vote would bo magnificent...
...The great bulk of the soldier vote was in more than a month ago...
...Others, even while in school, ran for the legislature in their particular counties, scaring the pants off the habitual squatton in tha legislative halla...
...Others entered government service with such organisations as the Farm Security Administration, the National Labor Relations Board, the Department of Labor...
...The actual totals show Roosevelt with a shade under 53 per cent...
...Will he—or wiH ha not—give it hell...
...We ware tail Met he asm jmt ymtalii to was ingsati "a iar raarawag program ml raaae Mm awwa Maw Pi i si I lit Baton had ban mated from Ma poahwea ant Maw Me Annisrlss af Paiimattj Pi if,......¦ mm* —mm* m fxwtewt...
...Ho could just as easily have mouthed the ehseka...
...Upstate, with strong support from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers in Rochester and the Steel Workers in Buffalo, the ALP tallied 86,000 votes, for s total of 474,000...
...Intellectuals free-lancing it in terms of social history in the South ss well as liberal-minded academicians have been stifled in both their teaching and research activities...
...platitude* aad taalaii himself to kanakas research...
...And snyone who has read a few Masters' and Doctors' dissertations turned out by graduate students in the sociology departments of Southern Universities cannot but be aware of a certain timidity, either outright or under the surface, in approaching such problems as those of race relations, delinquency and population...
...Senate, received ifiOO vows...
...Private Record', next aertiea deal* with sewMsrs rsUgiem...
...tm r«».'l msnat of ¦! liligj ha the tJarnrasto af North CojeMn...
...Upstate New York, which was expected to give Dewey a powerful lead, gave him only about 400,000 majority, not anywhere strong enough to overcome the amazing 760,000 majority Roosevelt piled up on Me streets of New York City...
...Douglas's in Congress this year...
...The American labor Party elected one state assemblyman in s raw deal with the Republicans...
...But he does not go far enough, and the conclusions to which hs leads are both tiring and hopeless...
...There may be two Mrs...
...The whole tone of Ms letter—outright and by implication—is one of defeat...
...I submit that it is not...
...Upstate New York produced a number of surprises, particularly in Syracuse...
...The young men who a few yean ago sat in their classes— if they aren't hi the Army—reflect their influence...
...to Mia rawty hlaat against ear biggest state...
...Tbw Frnitrated Scholars WhEN he gets down to the heart of business...
...Illinois'* Douglss is the wife of Paul Douglss, former University of Chicago Economics Professor and nationally known liberal...
...This unlit stcs s steep " decline in the machine strength of the Democrats...
...But those mast honestly spoke their minds and imparted some of their insights to their students...
...Illinois, which the first three pollsters had given to Dewey, Wss in the Roosevelt column, while New York, which Gallup and Neweweek had given to the GOP, went strongly Roosevelt The polls were also wrong on New Jersey, and missed on percentages in New Jersey snd Michigan...
...And I wet these awlsaty...
...The ammirftim ef the atate nr, dmng thaw heat yrwve tk«A he wm right I >aked taw...
...But it was not sa stark whst they believed that brought ea the opposition as want they did as a result ef what they thought...
...This was to be expected...
...The Daily New* really hit it bsd...
...Soma of them were elected and became liberal voices in atate law-making...
...Not a tingle important candidate appeared to await prospective congratulations...
...Di former years the rcoms wen thronged with candidates and district leaders...
...In South Carolina, Senator Byrd, nominated without his consent, ran ahead af Governor Dewey in Me polling, bat woefully behind Me President...
...Jmt hold your breath till next week...
Vol. 27 • November 1944 • No. 46
