Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass organizations [trade unions, farm and fraternal organizations, etc.] shall work jointly in a comradely manner to promote and strengthen the given organization. It shall be the duty of Party members ... to explain the mass policies of the Party and the principles of Socialism, to endeavor to win support for them, and they shall abide by the democratic decisions of the mass organizations...
...most, U. S. Communists ask their willing and unwilling allies to unite upon a 17-point program, extending from soak-the-rich taxation to equal rights for Negroes (who in several big cities lend the Party considerable support). The gist of the program is condensed in the Party's No. 1 Slogan: "For Jobs, Security, Democracy, and Peace." As a minimum basis for democratic coalition, Communists propose: 1) support the bulk of Franklin Roosevelt's domestic policy; 2) bring to bear all possible pressure for abandonment of his hands-off neutrality policy; 3) collaborate with France and Soviet...
...hope to appease the wrath of the institutions which are today their arch-opponents-the Catholic Church, New York's Senator Royal S. Copeland, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Esquire's new offspring, Ken, etc. Moreover, they are fully aware that it will do them no good to support democratic institutions unless they can get other parties to play ball with them. Since other parties are still afraid of openly accepting Communist allies, U. S. Communists ingratiatingly offer to withhold their own candidates from 1938 Congressional. State and local elections if other tickets present progressive nominees...
Thus Communists this year will support Farmer-Labor Progressives in Wisconsin and Minnesota, American Labor Party candidates in New York, C. I. O. Non-Partisan League indorsees everywhere. Just how far the Party will go to obtain or retain a foothold in its own "Democratic Front" was made clear last week after the defeat of Communist-indorsed C. I. O. candidates in Pennsylvania. Rather than put up certain losers in the Fall elections, the Party ordered all good Communists to vote for the regular Democratic nominees, including Governor-Nominate Charles Alvin Jones...
...Kentucky Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley's campaign for re-election against ambitious Governor "Happy" Chandler-it began last January with a testimonial banquet at which his supporters read a forthright letter of endorsement from the President-was proceeding with active White House support. It was indicated that the President himself might make a Barkley speech in Kentucky after attending the 75th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Gettysburg...