Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretary and one of his chief organizers have marched in picket lines and made fighting speeches to strikers, that the Mayor himself was reported to have said to a group of strikers: "We must demand our rights. God bless you, I hope you win." They were aghast when Socialist City Attorney Max Raskin refused last year to prosecute a group of Communists arrested for creating a disturbance at a reception for German Ambassador Hans Luther. They profess vast alarm over an anti-strike-violence ordinance passed by the Common Council last autumn. This ordinance provides that if an employer refuses...
Final source of conservative alarm is the Wisconsin Socialist Party's merger, effected last winter, with La Follette Progressives in a Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation, pledged to a ''production for use" program. By this deal Progressives are to support Socialists in Milwaukee; Socialists, who cast only about 10,000 votes outside Milwaukee County, will support a Federation slate composed chiefly of Progressives in State elections. First test of Federation effectiveness will come at Milwaukee's polls next week. For Mayor Hoan, who has made a more than local name for himself not only by his Milwaukee...
Next week, as it has been in every election since his first, it will be Dan Hoan against the field. After the Socialist landslide of 1910, Republicans and Democrats wangled through the Legislature a State law requiring municipal primaries and elections to be nonpartisan. No party designations may appear on ballots. Only the two biggest primary votegetters may compete in elections. Thus it is assured that every non-Socialist vote will be an anti-Socialist vote...
Many a citizen who has never heard of Daniel Webster Hoan and his municipal achievements knows Milwaukee as a great brewing town, home of Pabst, Blatz, Miller and of Schlitz, "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous." The current Socialist campaign slogan: KEEP MILWAUKEE FAMOUS...
Taking advantage of disgruntled feelings among the EPIC's, Upton Sinclair, who announced several months ago that he was going to write a book instead of campaigning in 1936, changed his mind and whipped together a slate of EPIC delegates nominally committed to making that onetime Socialist the Democratic nominee for President. Actually, however, Mr. Sinclair stressed that he will support Roosevelt at the Democratic convention, aims only to have EPIC well represented for platform-making purposes. Unfortunately for the Sinclairs, however, State Chairman Olson, EPIC's strongest practical politician, is personally at odds with Upton Sinclair...