CALIFORNIA'S BALMY POLITICS MAY PRODUCE ROOSEVELT-DOUGLAS TICKET IN 1950
Held, Abraham B.
California's Balmy Politics May Produce Roosevelt-Douglas Ticket in 1950 By Abraham B. Held New Leader Correspondent in California LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA MAY HAVE A ROOSEVELT-DOUGLAS ticket in...
...After the tirsl World War...
...That is the lesson of 1048...
...From its headquarters at 30 East 29th Street in New York City, the Council is distributing a mimeographed brochure only in pro-communist circles, and has already managed to farm an executive board and list of sponsors which read like a Who's Who of communist-front reliables...
...MRS...
...The old party hacks may have supported Truman and may have money to throw into political campaigns, but they cannot arouse the enthusiasm of the liberal voters, they cannot get the votes to win...
...Leon Straus...
...That such a man may be allowed tp carry the Democratic standard in a county of 4 million people like los Angeles, would be unthinkable: anywhere else except in California...
...Whether Warren's failure to win his state for the national ticket in the last Presidential elections has seriously damaged his reputation as a vote-getter still remains to be tested...
...Kenny supported Henry Wallace in the last campaign and was the head of a totally ineffective organization called "Democrats for Wallace...
...AFL organisations in various republics became clearing houses for Wall Street and State Department propaganda and in many cases got their directives straight from the American embassies...
...ON THE COUNCIL'S EXECUTIVE are: •Rabbi Shepherd Z. Bourn, a sponsor of the National Council for AmericanSoviet Friendship and a N. Y. State Department of Agriculture official...
...boss of the United Public Workers of America, American Labor party candidate for Manhattan Borough President, and long a party line hack...
...Gallagher was and is a member of the County Committee while he was a Communist and is still, a County Committeeman as an expelled Communist...
...Opposition to Roosevelt stems from his activity in the dump-Truman campaign prior to the 1048 national convention, and to the bitter factional fights which still plague the party in this area...
...Sincere anti-imperialists will expose this latest communist front as an attempt to disrupt Western Hemisphere relations—and to sabotage efforts within each nation to solve its social and economic problems—and will seek instead a program of hardhitting democratic action...
...Some Roosevelt supporters in Los Angeles still attend Commie-front legislative conferences and get endorsed for public office by the People's World, the West Coast edition of the Doily Worker...
...An underlying purpose of the Council for the Advancement of the Americas is to secure a new toehold among Negro and Spanish-speaking elements...
...One of the members of the Democratic County Committee is Leo Gallagher, long-time attorney for the Communist party and prominent local Catholic...
...Robert W. Kenny, for instance, has announced his candidacy for state senator in opposition to the present incumbent, Jack B. Tenney, who heads the California un« American activities committee...
...He advocated "correct working class approach in all classes with unbiased textbooks...
...a number of AFL leaders went into Latin America as the direct agents of the expanding U.S...
...good neighbor policy," the new organization calls itself Council for the Advancement of the Americas...
...DOUGLAS, now representing the 14th Los Angeles Congressional District, has served tor three terms and achieved national, as well as statewide fame...
...Infiltrate Latins, Negroes' New Red Front's Plan By Walter K. Lewis THE COMMUNISTS HAVE CREATED, for the first time without the usual fanfare, a new propaganda front...
...ALL INDICATIONS are that the present governor, Earl Warren, will bo running for re-election...
...Walter K. Lewis has for many years specialised In exposing underground Communist and Fascist organisations for The New Leader...
...Manuel Medina, Marcantonio lieutenant...
...CALIFORNIA MAY HAVE A ROOSEVELT-DOUGLAS ticket in 1950...
...Petitions urging her to run have been circulated by some of the CIO unions...
...at California politics before quitting this mortal world...
...A strong campaigner like Roosevelt may succeed in preventing Warren from capturing the Democratic nomination...
...This does not mean that a final decision has been reached among the party big-wigs, but it may mean that they have decided to let him make a prleiminary run...
...She trounced her Republican opponent by a vote of 2 to 1 and thereby became a serious Senatorial prospect...
...Since these talks have occurred, James Roosevelt, eldest son of the late President and Democratic National Committeeman, has spoken in many places in the state and, if what he says is any indication, he talks like a candidate for governor of the Golden State...
...Ewart T. Guinier...
...educational director of the pro-communist Council of African Affairs...
...If there is any magic left in the1 Roosevelt name, and FDR Jr...
...From day to day it becomes clearer that Peronism and Stalinism, working together, have nothing to offer but new and still more drastic forms of oppres-, sion...
...Roosevelt could fit the bill, although he, too, will have to make his opposition to Communism more vocal than he has done in the past...
...In a 17-page manifesto not intended for public consumption, which attacks AFL attempts to solidify Latin American labor behind a pro-democratic (and non- and anti-communist) program, the Council-declares: "The AFL today is reassuming in Latin America an old role which was interrupted only briefly by the yeers of the Good Neighbor Policy...
...Behind-the-scenes discussions ^have already taken place on high levels in the Democratic parfcy of' California, looking toward the crucial elections of 1950...
...But few Negroes or Hispano-Americans will be deceived by this communist attempt to exploit legitimate minority grievances for Soviet ends...
...In 1946 Warren was able to capture both the Republican and Democratic nominations...
...He made a run for the Board of Education of Los Angeles and ran fourth in a field of 14, although the CP had come out and repudiated his running as a Communist...
...Alpheus Hunton...
...Bronx ALP chairman and henchman of Ben Gold, Communist furriers' leader...
...Ferdinand Smith, former Communist secretary of the National Maritime Union...
...Of course, the fact that Kenny ^played close to the Communist party may account for that defeat...
...All is not serene in the Republican party and the attitude of the Republican-controlled state legislature to the Warren legislative program shows that the party is split wide open...
...She proved, above all else, that an honest liberal, running on a militant program refusing Communist aid, can win the loyalty and votes of the American people...
...Labor has soyred on Warren arid is amenable to a strong liberal Democratic candidate with no Communist ties...
...In the last election, Warren received the support of the American Federation of Labor...
...Where the defunct National Negro Congress failed, the new Council for the Advancement of the Americas— the communists hope—will succeed in infiltrating ethnic minorities in North and South America...
...She could probably get the backing of the labor movement, both AFL and CIO...
...Kafka should bavc taken a crack...
...The brochure vociferously applauds the Communist parties of Brazil and Chile, the Cominform-controlled World Federation of" Democratic Youth and Congressman Vito Marcantonio...
...California does not have real Eastern machine politics and prominent individuals therefore play an important role in political affairs...
...She is outspokenly liberal, and was courageous enough to refuse the endorsement of the Independent Progressive Party in her last try for public office, when it seemed that the IPP would carry much influence in California politics...
...Quick to complain that "Puerto Rico is the only nation in the world completely dominated by the United States Government," the Council somehow ignores Stalin's friendship for Peron and Soviet-sponsored fifth column attempts to overthrow various Latin American governments who refuse to toe Stalin's line...
...imperialists in an effort to divert the growing labor movement from its struggle for industrialisation and real national independence...
...How confusing can politics get...
...Attempts to abolish cross-filing, t. e. running in the primaries of a party not your own, have so far been blocked...
...The altitude the Los Angeles County Democratic Committee will take should prove interesting...
...All this seems ludicrous in a state where Democratic registration runs to 3 million against a 2 million Republican registration, but Warren ran against Robert W. Kenny in 1946 and took the nomination rather handily...
...Representative Helen G a h a g a n Douglas has promised to give a definite answer to the question whether she will be a candidate against Sheridan Downey, also a Democrat, in the primaries next year...
...Close friends of Mrs...
...He was recently expelled from the Communist party and was quoted in the press as saying that there wasn't any democracy within the party...
...Douglas believe that she will make the campaign...
...Dedicated to an anti-AFL and anti-U.S...
...showed that there is, then California needs some magic, it needs a strong, liberal, non-Communist candidate...
...Resentment against the incumbent, Downey, stems principally from his attitude on the tidelands oil dispute, his dogged fight against national administration on the Central Valley project, and, finally, his quiet disappearing act during the election campaign of 1948...
Vol. 32 • July 1949 • No. 29
