Upton Sinclair
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FDR production for use; EPIC, LA opera house; across from LAT ~ epic; harry chandler; hobo foto; harry give the other bums a chance"
...after the coal mining rebellion in Colorado known as the "Ludlow Massacre". Upton Sinclair dubbed him "Poison Ivy" after Lee tried send bulletins saying those thatdied were victims of an overturned stove, when in fact they were shot by the Colorado militia.
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https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-august-3-2017/
ca law allows school aud to be used for pol mtg; EPIC
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http://www.iww.org/hu/history/campaigns/sanpedro
In the early evening of May 15, 1923, one of the nation's foremost writers, Upton Sinclair, rose to speak on behalf of 3,000 striking longshoreman at Liberty Hill in San Pedro. Sinclair began his address by reading the U.S. Constitution. Within moments, he was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department. For the next four days, Sinclair and three other speakers were held incommunicado.
Despite police efforts to squelch the strike, Sinclair's cause and the cause of the workers he championed was ultimately victorious. Shortly after Sinclair's arrest, hundreds of striking workers were released from jail, the longshoremen gained the right to organize and the Chief of Police was forced to resign. The demonstration at Liberty Hill came to be seen as a pivotal moment signaling the rebirth of the labor movement in Southern California.
...Today, California State Historical Landmark #1021 commemorates the Liberty Hill Site near 5th Street and Harbor Blvd. in San Pedro, California.
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- Scenes of Centralia Re-enacted in San Pedro; the Ku Klux Klan Tried Intimidation - Harry Fisher,Industrial Pioneer, April 1924.
http://www.iww.org/history/campaigns/sanpedro/klan
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On Saturday night,March 1st, crowds began to gather in the harbor district of san Pedro, Calif., within the shadow of Liberty Hill.[also around iww hall mtg in progress?]
Curious inquiries elicited the information that there would be a parade of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From remarks passed among the crowds it appeared to be no secret that the purpose of this parade was intimidation of the Industrial Workers of the World, who were growing stronger, in spite of every form of persecution.
As one bystander defined it, it was to be a demonstration to the wobblies that there was to be no repetition of the strike of last year when all the shipping was tied up in the harbor.
From six o' clock to eight the crowds increased along the proposed line of march and on all side streets every available parking space was occupied by automobiles.
On every hand uniformed police were engaged in directing traffic and keeping open the avenuebetween the surging crowds.
At last the suspense was broken when someone shouted, "Here they come!"
Far in the distance one could see the mounted vanguard flanking a hooded rider bearing a flaming cross.
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Upton Sinclair Socialist governor of California during the Great Depression? "Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual" video interview with author Lauren Coodley (see also "Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California"). Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair by Anthony Arthur.
Right Out of California: University of California, Davis, professor Kathryn Olmstead discusses reaction to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s legislative efforts, which provides basis for US moving to the right(summary review). (BookTV video).
‘Right Out of California’ Book Review: On the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism
Posted on Nov 13, 2015
By Gabriel Thompson
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Growers and their allies discovered another way to win: surveillance. One of the most fascinating characters in Olmsted’s book is Gen. Ralph Van Deman. A legendary figure in the history of military intelligence, Van Deman honed his skills fighting insurgents in the Philippines before retiring to set up a massive intelligence gathering operation out of his San Diego home. His files grew to cover some 125,000 “subversive” groups and individuals in California — which included the American Federation of Labor and the YMCA — and he collaborated extensively with growers, who created their own spying and surveillance arms to track down organizers and break strikes.
Growers were obsessed with two organizers in particular: Pat Chambers and Caroline Decker. Their names pop up in books about the period, but Olmsted fills in new biographical details about the pair, who were hounded across the state by law enforcement and often forced to operate underground. Both were white, spoke little Spanish, and were members of the Communist Party, though neither cared much for Marxist theory; they were interested in organizing farmworkers, and were willing to suffer for it. “These people seen that we didn’t have anything, we didn’t have ulterior motives,” Chambers said. “We had less than they had. If they went hungry, we went hungry.”
Chambers came out of the Irish-American working class, while Decker was from a middle-class Jewish family (her last name was actually Dwofsky). She had joined the Youth Communist League in Syracuse and organized coal miners in Kentucky before landing in California. Unlike the plainspoken Chambers, she was a gifted public speaker and, with her fashionable dresses and high heels, a curious presence on the picket line. While they were seen as the driving force behind the 1933 cotton strike, it was the mostly Mexican workforce that had pulled it off. But growers found it difficult to imagine brown-skinned workers acting on their own, and decided the two organizers needed to be taken care of.
They got their chance the following year. By now, Decker and Chambers had relocated the union’s office from San Jose to Sacramento — a lynch mob had strung up a San Jose man several blocks from their office, and they feared being the next target. The duo continued to organize small marches and protests. The district attorney ordered a raid of the Communist Party headquarters, arresting 24 people for vagrancy, including the two star organizers. Soon the charges were updated to criminal syndicalism. The resulting trial was front-page news for weeks, and Olmsted dedicates a chapter to this largely forgotten episode, in which growers essentially paid for a verdict that sent the organizers to prison for five years. “State has farm peace,” ran the headline in the Los Angeles Times.
For readers interested in the history of California radicalism — and reaction — Olmsted’s book covers fascinating new ground and offers an intriguing, and ultimately convincing, thesis. It is also something of a mirror reflected across eight decades. At a time of extreme inequality, even the government’s most modest policies on behalf of the poor — shipments of free food, the construction of a handful of labor camps — were met with hysteria by the right. There is a photograph in the book of four Los Angeles “churchwomen” holding pistols as they take target practice. The image is from 1935, and the ladies are identified as members of American Women, Inc., a group who believed that Roosevelt was pushing as “Communist a policy as the Russian government’s own economic program” and who were prepared to lay their lives on the line to save their country. As Wallace Stegner once remarked, “California is America, only more so.”
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The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by author and journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to highlight the plight of the working class and to show the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early-20th century. The novel depicts in harsh tones poverty, absence of social programs, unpleasant living and working conditions, and hopelessness prevalent among the working class, which is contrasted with the deeply-rooted corruption on the part of those in power. Sinclair's observations of the state of turn-of-the-century labor were placed front and center for the American public to see, suggesting that something needed to be changed to get rid of American "wage slavery".[1]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#cite_note-young1-0)
The novel was first published in serial form in 1905. "After five rejections", its first edition as a novel was published by Doubleday, Page & Company on February 28, 1906, and it became an immediate bestseller[1]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#cite_note-young1-0) and has been in print ever since.
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Upton Sinclair originally intended to expose "the inferno of exploitation [of the typical American factory worker at the turn of the 20th Century],"[3]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#cite_note-sullivan-2) but the reading public instead fixated on food safety as the novel's most pressing issue. In fact, Sinclair bitterly admitted his celebrity rose, "not because the public cared anything about the workers, but simply because the public did not want to eat tubercular beef"[3]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#cite_note-sullivan-2).
Sinclair's account of workers falling into rendering tanks and being ground, along with animal parts, into "Durham's Pure Leaf Lard", gripped public attention. The morbidity of the working conditions, as well as the exploitation of children and women alike that Sinclair exposed showed the corruption taking place inside the meat packing factories. Foreign sales of American meat fell by one-half.[citation needed]
President Theodore Roosevelt considered Sinclair a "crackpot"[4]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#cite_note-3) and wrote to William Allen White, "I have an utter contempt for him. He is hysterical, unbalanced, and untruthful. Three-fourths of the things he said were absolute falsehoods. For some of the remainder there was only a basis of truth."[5]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#cite_note-4) The President was leery of aligning himself with Sinclair's politics and conclusions in The Jungle, so he sent Labor Commissioner Charles P. Neill and Social Worker James Bronson Reynolds, men whose honesty and reliability he trusted, to Chicago to make surprise visits to meat packing facilities. Despite betrayal of the secret to the meat packers, who worked three shifts a day for three weeks to clean the factories prior to the inspection, Neill and Reynolds were still revolted by the conditions at the factories and at the lack of concern by plant managers[citation needed]. Their oral report to Roosevelt tentatively supported Sinclair, failing only to substantiate the claim of workers falling into rendering vats and being left to be sold as lard[6]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#cite_note-5). Neill testified before Congress that they had reported only "such things as showed the necessity for legislation" and that he did not think it was also necessary to "praise things where they were worthy of praise."[7]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#cite_note-6) A report by the Bureau of Animal Industry refuted Sinclair's severest allegations, characterizing them as "intentionally misleading and false," "willful and deliberate misrepresentations of fact," and "utter absurdity."[8]
Roosevelt, not a Socialist himself,[citation needed] and not in favor of the heavy regulation the public outcry would have caused, did not release the findings of the Neill-Reynolds Report for publication. Instead, he helped the issue by dropping hints from the report, alluding to disgusting conditions and inadequate inspection measures.
To calm public outrage and demonstrate the cleanliness of their meat, themajor meat packers also lobbied the Federal Government to pass legislation paying for additional inspectionand certification of meat packaged in the United States.[9]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#cite_note-reed-8) The combined pressure, coupled with the public outcry, led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which established theBureau of Chemistry that would become (in 1930) the Food and Drug Administration.
Sinclair rejected the legislation, as he viewed it as an unjustified boon to large meat packers partially because the U.S., rather than the packers, was to bear the costs of inspection at $30,000,000 a year.[10]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#cite_note-9)[^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#cite_note-sinclair-10)11]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#cite_note-sinclair-10) He famously noted the limited effect of his book by stating, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
interesting publishing history "The Fictitious Suppression of Upton Sinclair's *The Jungle,*" by historian Christopher Phelps
http://www.anb.org.oca.ucsc.edu/articles/16/16-01510.html?a=1&n=upton&d=10&ss=2&q=5
From 1908 to 1914 Sinclair restlessly moved about, enjoyed California, flirted with single-tax theorists in Alabama and Delaware, checked into clinics in Michigan more than once for depression, visited Europe and met fellow socialists (including George Bernard Shaw), sought publicity at every turn, and wrote essays on capitalism, dieting, marriage, education, tourism, and pacifism. His prolific output of books did not abate, even as the circumstances of his personal life changed. His novel of 1910, Samuel the Seeker, ridicules capitalists and churchmen and praises socialism. In 1912, after having embarrassingly fictionalized his childhood and marriage in Love's Pilgrimage (1911), he divorced his wife for promiscuity long tolerated. A year later he married Mary Craig Kimbrough (with whom he did not have children). Soon after the marriage, he published the novel Damaged Goods (1913), which depicts the dangers of venereal disease. Two other novels, Sylvia (1913) and Sylvia's Marriage (1914), are based on events in his new wife's earlier life.
Sinclair's social conscience continued to find new causes to pursue. In 1914, to support the coal miners' bloody strike in Ludlow, Colorado, Sinclair had himself arrested for picketing outside the New York offices of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who controlled the mines and who later praised Sinclair for his courage and beneficial influence. (Rockefeller went to Ludlow, visited miners, danced with their wives, recognized the union, and helped improve working conditions.) Three years later, now living in California, Sinclair published King Coal, a muckraking, pro-union novel based on the "coal war," but it also sold poorly, for by this time the war in Europe was a more absorbing concern. In that same year, 1917, the former advocate of pacifism resigned from the Socialist party to protest its nonintervention policy. But Sinclair did not renounce his liberal impulses, as illustrated by his cogent, anticonservative letters to President Woodrow Wilson concerning American shipping, censorship, the treatment of conscientious objectors, and Russia's future. During the war Sinclair corresponded with and personally helped many oppressed fellow liberals, including Eugene V. Debs, Max Eastman, Michael Gold, and John Reed, whether he agreed precisely with their opinions or not. To argue his position he produced his own quickly insolvent magazine, Upton Sinclair's (1918-1919).
Between 1918 and 1928 Sinclair published seventeen books. Six were iconoclastic, nonfiction works focusing on the continued ills of America and constituted what he called his "Dead Hand" series, the hand being capitalism, a strangling influence on one American liberty after another. The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation (1918) castigates churches as moneymaking, politicized predators; its partial validity is lost by excessive stress on Catholic "plotting" and Jewish "Shylocks." The Brass Check (1919) deplores procapitalistic editorial censorship in the press. The Goose-Step (1923) describes the commercializing of American higher education, and The Goslings (1924) examines the same process affecting grade school and high school education. Mammonart (1925) theorizes that through the ages most artists have served their respective economic establishments. Money Writes! A Study of American Literature (1927) criticizes recent writers for not being politically radical. Sinclair published these books, often disfigured by socialistic propagandizing and highly personal rantings, at his own expense; some were also picked up by commercial firms. All six were influential, and The Brass Check became a bestseller. Of his five novels during these years, only Oil! (1927) and Boston (2 vols., 1928) are of enduring value.
Oil! deals in general with the California petroleum business and in particular with the 1924 Teapot Dome scandal during President Warren Harding's administration. The book sold better after it was banned in Boston for incidentally mentioning birth control. (Margaret Sanger, the controversial advocate of family planning, was one of Sinclair's close friends.) Boston was inspired by the 1927 executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, the Italian immigrant anarchists convicted of a 1920 payroll robbery and murder in Braintree, Massachusetts, but whose guilt seemed to many not at all certain. The case outraged American liberals and resulted in many poems, plays, short stories, and novels, of which Boston is among the very best. To prepare for it, Sinclair interviewed Vanzetti--and judged him to be innocent. He placed the two Italian prisoners at the center of a sprawling work involving Bostonians of several social and financial levels and rebuked the entire conservative establishment.
In the 1930s Sinclair the writer faltered: his Mental Radio (1930) concerns mental telepathy, while in The Wet Parade (1931) he praises Prohibition. Sinclair the politician came to the fore. In 1933 he published I, Governor of California, and How I Ended Poverty to advance his 1934 gubernatorial bid as a Democratic candidate with EPIC--End Poverty in California--as his battle cry. He campaigned vigorously, in part by making effective radio broadcasts. But his opponent smeared him as a free-love communist, and he lost, although many of his left-wing suggestions, including state ownership of certain industries to ameliorate statewide unemployment, earned him almost 44 percent of the slightly more than 2 million votes cast and influenced President Franklin D. Roosevelt's federal policies. As usual, Sinclair quickly sought to justify his political position in both fiction and nonfiction. Three novels of this period are notable: The Flivver King (1937), attacking Henry Ford's antiunion policies; No Pasaran! (1937), featuring an American fighting with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War; and Little Steel (1938), rebuking the big steel companies' hatred of labor unions
Now followed the Lanny Budd series of eleven novels, for which--along with The Jungle, Oil!, and Boston--Sinclair will be remembered the longest. The Budd titles are World's End (1940, a Literary Guild selection), Between Two Worlds (1941), Dragon's Teeth (1942, a 1943 Pulitzer Prize winner), Wide Is the Gate (1943), Presidential Agent (1944), Dragon Harvest (1945), A World to Win (1946, a bestseller), Presidential Mission (1947), One Clear Call (1948), O, Shepherd, Speak! (1949), and The Return of Lanny Budd (1953). This monumental series, totaling 7,014 pages, vivifies contemporary history, in exciting narrative form, from 1913 to the beginning of the Cold War in 1949 and beyond, through the eyes of one observer, who is also a participant. Sinclair did not plan a sequel when he introduced in World's End Lanny Budd, the illegitimate son of a rich American munitions maker and an internationally famous beauty.
But over the years Budd evolved into an art dealer, Roosevelt's secret agent, and a smooth lover. Like Allan Montague of Manassas, Budd encounters many historical figures of his time, among them Isadora Duncan, Albert Einstein, Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler, Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong), Marshal Pétain, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Stalin, Lincoln Steffens, Woodrow Wilson, and Sir Basil Zaharoff. Sinclair researched his topics with great diligence. He even wrote a thousand or more letters to important persons with specific queries, received many detailed answers, and was also aided by unsolicited correspondents. The result may have been fodder for adverse critics, one of whom said that Budd combined the traits of d'Artagnan (the fourth Musketeer), Sherlock Holmes, the British dandy Beau Brummell, the actor Douglas Fairbanks, the philosopher Herbert Spencer, and Casanova. Millions of readers, however, enjoyably learned their history from the Lanny Budd series, which was also relished by such discerning readers as President Lyndon B. Johnson's wife, Lady Bird, and Hugh Sidey, Washington correspondent for Time, both of whom freely admitted as much. Sinclair's romantic hope, though not his realistic expectation, was that his Lanny Budd series, corny but coherent, as one reviewer put it, would encourage the masses to espouse socialism without the taint of communism. Always antifascist, Sinclair was also never a communist, although for decades he was friendly with and supported many communists and preferred many of their beliefs to those of capitalists--even after he grew aware of Stalin's atrocities. The final Lanny Budd volume, however, reflects a shift to anticommunism and to a measured pro-American position.
see greg mitchell campaign of the century http://www.amazon.com/Campaign-Century-Sinclairs-Governor-California/dp/0679748547
A colorful account of California's 1934 gubernatorial race, a forerunner of today's high-decibel, high-tech electioneering. Upton Sinclair, author of the meat-packing expos‚ The Jungle and a prominent Socialist who became a Democrat only a year before the general election, electrified millions with his EPIC (End Poverty in California) movement--and at the same time alarmed, in Mitchell's words, ``an array of powerful enemies almost unparalleled in American politics,'' including William Randolph Hearst, Herbert Hoover, and film-mogul L.B. Mayer. Mitchell (Truth...and Consequences, 1981) follows the nine-week campaign almost day by day, from the morning after Sinclair's astonishing primary victory to his November defeat at the hands of the lackluster, reactionary GOP incumbent, Frank Merriam. In between, California became a laboratory for the modern negative mass-media campaign, as Sinclair's enemies wedded some tried-and-true tactics (slush funds, dirty tricks, voter intimidation, biased reporting by nearly all of the state's 700 newspapers) to some disturbingly effective new ones: a campaign consultant to manage a gubernatorial contest, polling, a direct-mail operation, even newsreels (precursors of TV commercials) that attacked Sinclair. For a history as epic as the campaign that inspired it, Mitchell has found additional dash and drama in a wealth of primary source materials, contemporary newspaper accounts, and interviews, unfolding the campaign through the eyes of dozens of politicians, entertainers, and other public figures, including FDR, Charlie Chaplin, Melvin Belli, Pat Brown, James Cagney, and H.L. Mencken. An entertaining chronicle of the consummation of the unholy alliance of Madison Avenue, Hollywood, and politics.
Greg Mitchell is the author of Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady,Why Obama Won, So Wrong for So Long
I, candidate for governor: and how I got licked
By Upton Sinclair
Upton sinclair bk
Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair Hardcover – June 6, 2006
by Anthony Arthur
2006 vid https://www.c-span.org/video/?193415-1/radical-innocent-upton-sinclair
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Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California (California Legacy Book) Paperback – October 1, 2004
by Upton Sinclair (Author), Lauren Coodley (Editor)
Novelist and muckraker Upton Sinclair will forever be associated with The Jungle, however, Sinclair deserves equal accolades for his entertaining critiques of Southern California's oil industry, movie studios, and urban sprawl--most of which still apply today. The Land of Orange Groves and Jails spans fifty years of Sinclair's funny and fiery writings. Taken together, these plays, novels, articles, and pamphlets show how Sinclair's personal life inspired his political activism.
This quintessential rabble-rouser has found an advocate in Lauren Coodley, a professor of history at Napa Valley College. Beginning with her dissertation, Coodley has spent nearly ten years studying Sinclair's life and writings. She has rethought how we view Upton Sinclair, both as a Californian and as a writer who turned his own life experiences into political pop culture.
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Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism Hardcover – October 13, 2015
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ogden armour\veblen on leisure class
1st 3 mos 1905 wrote w/ tears story of his family too // pilgrim's progress ( c hitch says prefigure holocaust and animal farm p61
pals steffan, HG wells, mencken gbs, mann, london
col U predicted armour lawsuit; brett wanted to cut gore;
bnat'l student org Intercoll socialist soc , jack L 1st prez; had corresp but 1st mtg 63;
marcossen agent for birth of a nation boosted Jungle 67 page/ doubleday disliked title; marcossen sent to TR; dday not big on book, got invit armour to dine in private pullman car 71 in ret for big ad $; atty gave gift of canned meat d'day PO'd 71 Churchill wrote review (big on war metaphors).
teddy, pro writer, sent 3 page litcrit; agreed action on meat but not socialism 72 TR sen speech coined muckraker (not a compliment, US never forgave 83 blindsided uppie? 77
also ~ elbert hubbard aurora NY
albert beveridge bill sails 3 days 79
TR own report verify US, but not released; finally was later (he tried to force) but only 8 pp and no ref to jungle; limited to only what 2 guys saw; hog pulled from privy not cleaned; 81
US published list of horrors in paper and dared armour to sue;
TR and sen bev aved on several points eg head fee vs flat yearly $
TR thot US wacko 82
trying to help workers "aimed at the public's heart and by accident i hit it in the stomach 83
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home colony based on charlotte perkins gilman women and economics bk 86 Helicon Hall ; john dewey u chic --> col ; sinclair lewis (later uppie and downey; Upde sl nickname] Meta affair;
england, craig (wife) silk worker strike paterson NJ
ludlow 149; apr 20 state militia; US shaken by wife speech laura cannon, carnegie hall; bad papr coverage; JDR sr hurt by Tarbell; jr more decent and sensitive to public opinion cf ron chernow bk; jr talked to hearst editor A Brisbane who rec ivy lee 150; went to rock HQ, refused, left ltr indict for murder at talk that night 151; next day picket 26 broadway; arrested w/ 4 suffragettes; 3$ 3 days; craig marched w/ geo sterling; mon visit, hissy; woman with pistol in rock offices, after Berkman; tlk shd we murder rock, A: no, 2 one prolly good guy, it's the phantom/system that must die 152 //Carlyle; jdr retreat tarrytown, protesters arrest b/c no permit incl Berman! tried to PO citizens, got pelted w/ rocks, routed 154 ;july 4 tenement 19yo bomber, 4 kia incl innocent woman in next apt; body caron fell 2 stories to fire escape; cops asked craig to ID, she and US declined; US lamed cossack cops who clubbed caron; but said bombs not productive, just prompt greater repression; plan was to throw at jdr; but US thot threat brought jdr to table 155;
=> laissez faire cap l to corp capt',lism
ch 9 CA 2 bs on coal; king coal not big audience; went to LA times to meet pal (Carr) say otis (hated US b/c of speech; US packing?! 170
resign socialist party; hike w/ henry ford ( sometimes edsel); US pal King Gillette 175, went to see in pasadena, refused, sent biz card 100$ admitted 176 got ford to start mag, but --> anti semitic; most reactionary in US
longshoremen strike san pedro L; arrested 3x? IWW? Liberty Hill
mencken 205
geo sterling suicide cyanide
Oil novel
U sued defamation? lost
crain thot she was telepathic; seances with jack london; mental rdio; Lanny Budd
sergei eisenstein, dreiser; (PR stills with rin tin tin; US popular in USSR, chaplin asked eis for $? diego rivera wanted to make movie about mexican indians; The Mex JL short story; Que Viva mexico disaster? cd have been great, but over ambitions (for budget?) ltr to Stalin?
ch 13 lippmann praise US
pal eisenstein at caltech 1933; both into spiritualism 245
ch 14 cal gov race: plius minus, one advan is gop complaisent 255
technocracy movement out of princeton, sci shd run gov't; production for use; --> Utopian Soc; grew fast; Townsend club: ca gov? tax, give all over 60 $200 to stim economy; US barter sys b/c stuff but no $; ca gov't buy or rent factories ; Authority for Money wd issue own scrip; EPIC no tax prop less than 3k$; no sales tax; grad income take, grab all over 50K$; jerry voorhis vol; rail bums and rich pullman cr bums both want other ppl to support them? 262
attacked by Creel 9he in CPI helped US mag but ~ Jimmie Higgins novel to troops];Crell pal of muckrakers, Fabian when young but in 1930's saw socialism as way to commie, pro-capitalism 264
US read cicero; good ethos 263
1906 US met teddy --> writer?; FDR Hudson Pk house; FDR said 2 part radio address, 2nd wd favor prod for use; US thot that will win CA for US; kicked ass in primaries? but party leaders ~ him;
cf geo mitchell camp of century: no one cd beat forces ~ US 269
I Gov bk funded EPIC but have ammo; FDR wanted to save cap'l, so split w/ US; commie ~ cap'l lackey; preachers Aimee Semple McPherson et l ~; LAT Hearst SF apocalyptic 271; Asa Call BofA told frank M no saleable traits so we'll attack US; st'd oil told stockholders holdings in danger, bunch of other biz 272; chatting w/ reporter in yard, repeated I told Harry Hopkins if elected 1/2 unemployed in US will come here[b/c he wanted feds to know how rough in CA now] and we'll have to cope/help (sales job) joke?
LAT 5 mill, some commies anarchists; 273 Chandler trashed him; caricatures (cartoons Bruce Russell 273 Palmer pol rep LAT "we are going to beat this son of a bitch Sinclair any way we can. We are going to kill him" 274 kyle palmer and LB Mayer encourage Irving thalberg to 3 part fake newsreels; army hobo, USSR guy; 3rd usd outtakes of Warner Bros Wild Boys of the Road; old woman on porch; thalberg had put 10k in US gold-spangled banner (flop?) grauman chinese premiere wet parade sid grauman not let uppie pk b/c not in tux (never owned one); thal ltrr confirmed dirty trick in talk w/ actor Fred March;
pro US: hepburn, doug F, will rogers, clark gable, [ cagney, chaplin openly support, but cagney forced to back off and chaplin not all in) BUT huge support writers: groucho, dorothy parker, lil hellman; ted dreiser; not 1 of 700 papers pro;
US sure oct 22 fireside chat wd boost; creel made nice at nom, but now sent letter to FDR; US 38%, FM 49, haight 14%
day before election rally outside LAT; chandler came to CA w/ 0:c’mon harry, give the other bums a chance" 278
after election they learned that biz man bot gun wrote will to shoot if won; 30 yr CA most conserv to most lib; US helped; gave EPIC to dick otto, got tired of factions and sailed around world;
menken ~ epic in Am mercury
july 34 Gov M looked tough Nat g ~ harry bridges longshoreman, made US look Red;
baxter and whitaker in Little Steel novel as matt and Ernestine Joyce (she brainy)
No pasaran! 1937? anti-Franco SCW
Neil Vanderbilt exploits used in Lanny Budd (in Reno noticed bunch of german ski instructors and told boy pal FDR; Goebbels bugged hotel room, booted him, said if not pal of FDR he'd be dead;
lanny meets einstein and fdr; late cold warrior
LBJ celebrate pure food, met Nader; acknowledged debt 322