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114-406: A June 1947 Communist National Committee meeting she attended at which the founding of the 1948 Progressive Party was planned: The point of it all came near the end, when [John] Gates read that a third party would be very effective in 1948, but only if we could get Henry Wallace to be its candidate. There it was, plainly stated. The Communists were proposing a third party, a farmer-labor party, as

171-575: A common political strategy. Harold L. Ickes , Claude Pepper , Philip Murray , Jack Kroll , Walter White , and Henry Morgenthau Jr. were among the speakers. Morgenthau and White were both critical of efforts to form a third party. These two organizations merged on December 30 into the Progressive Citizens of America (PCA), which formed the backbone of the Progressive Party and Henry Wallace's bid for president on July 23–25, 1948, when

228-460: A cover organization and a substitute for the Communist Party if the latter were outlawed. Historians have disputed the degree to which Communists shaped the party. Most agree that Wallace paid very little attention to internal party affairs. Historians Schapsmeier and Schapsmeier argue (1970 p 181): [The Progressive Party] stood for one thing and Wallace another. Actually the party organization

285-454: A party of 20 million, there are going to be many kinds of people in that party. Keep the door open. While the "New Party" may be best remembered for its anti-war, pro-Soviet relations, it sought to include a very broad range of issues and interests. Wallace, and many others in the party, sought to create something more than a single-issue party, to the objection of other leaders in the party who felt that would be their undoing. The platform of

342-470: A political maneuver for the 1948 elections. They were even picking the candidate. When Gates had finished, I took the floor. I said that while I would not rule out the possibility of building a farmer-labor party, surely the decision to place a third party in 1948 should be based not on whether Henry Wallace would run, but on whether a third party would help meet the needs of workers and farmers in America. And if

399-566: A sense of urgency and anxiety for peace settled in with the beginning of the arms race and the Cold War: I urge elimination of groups and factions in this new party movement. This movement is as broad as humanity itself. I urge that we accept all people who wish for a peaceful understanding between the United States and Soviet Russia. [....] We can get the support of these people if they realize that we do not represent one group. If we are going to be

456-535: A strange Jekyll and Hyde quality—one moment he was a peace protagonist and the next a propaganda parrot for the Kremlin. One historian (further to the left than the Schapsmeiers) explores the internal dynamic (Schmidt 258–9): In her book School of Darkness (1954), Bella Dodd , an American Communist Party National Committee member who later left and went on to give anti-Communist testimony before Congress, wrote about

513-399: A third party were to participate in the 1948 elections, the decision should be made immediately by bona-fide labor and farmer groups, and not delayed until some secret and unknown persons made the decision. My remarks were heard in icy silence. When I had finished, the committee with no answer to my objection simply went on to other work. However, it was becoming evident that the top clique

570-587: A vehicle for the campaign of Henry A. Wallace , a former vice president , to become President of the United States in 1948. The party sought racial desegregation, the establishment of a national health insurance system, an expansion of the welfare system, and the nationalization of the energy industry. The party also sought conciliation with the Soviet Union during the early stages of the Cold War . Wallace had served as vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt but

627-572: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Independent-Socialist Party John Thomas McManus was born in 1904 in New York City . During the 1930s, McManus took off time from work to obtain a B.A. from Marietta College in Ohio . In 1927, McManus started to work for The New York Times as a copy boy, police reporter, writer on bridge , and movie reviewer. In 1937, McManus resigned from

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684-481: Is our innocence. Guilelessly, I agreed. The picturization of the novel by the brother of my old Daily Worker colleague, Tom O'Flaherty , was in fact one of my favorite movies. It was several minutes before I suddenly realized what McManus meant. National Guardian Progressive Party (United States, 1948) The Progressive Party was a left-wing political party in the United States that served as

741-603: Is through liberalizing the Republican party". Whitney, who was previously critical of Truman and threatened to finance a third-party campaign, praised him after Truman vetoed the Taft–Hartley Act and stated that the veto "vindicated him in the eyes of labor". Whitney and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen had been supporters of Wallace since the 1944 convention. Kroll and the CIO announced on October 16, 1947, that they would not lead in

798-460: The Times to join the staff of Time magazine as radio critic. In 1940, William Saroyan lists him among "contributing editors" at Time in the play, Love's Old Sweet Song . In the 1940s, McManus resigned to join the staff of PM , a left-of-center New York City daily. In the postwar period, McManus was actively involved in electoral politics. In 1948, he served on the national committee of

855-639: The 1948 Progressive National Convention in Philadelphia launched a "New Party" to a crowd of enthusiastic liberal and left-leaning citizens. Carl Marzani's film of the convention, whose soundtrack consists of inspirational words and songs recorded elsewhere, shows both meetings leading up to the convention and the convention itself. Wallace and the PCA attempted to gain support from liberal Republicans, but U.S. Senator Wayne Morse rejected their efforts and stated that "the only hope for sane and sound progressive politics

912-655: The American Institute of Public Opinion believed that the Progressives were dominated by communists. Orson Welles , a friend of Roosevelt who had endorsed him in the 1944 election, refused to be involved with Wallace's presidential campaign. Welles later described Wallace as "a prisoner of the [U.S.] Communist Party. He would never do anything to upset them." James Imbrie, the chair of the Progressive Party in New Jersey and 1949 gubernatorial nominee , rejected support from

969-503: The International Fur & Leather Workers Union , under the leadership of communist Ben Gold , was the largest union donors, with over $ 21,000. Over $ 3.3 million was raised during the campaign, $ 1.2 million at the national level and $ 1.3 million at the state and local level. If all of the votes Wallace received went to Truman then only the states of Maryland, Michigan, and Maryland would have flipped. Running as peace candidates in

1026-693: The Progressive Party in support of the presidential candidacy of former vice-president Henry A. Wallace . In 1950 and 1954 , McManus ran for Governor of New York on the American Labor Party ticket. In 1958 , he ran again for Governor of New York, this time on the Independent-Socialist ticket. In 1949, McManus co-founded the National Guardian , a progressive newspaper, with fellow former Times writer James Aronson . The paper

1083-463: The segregationist Dixiecrats , Truman won election to a full term in the 1948 election . Wallace won 2.4% of the vote, which was far less than the share received by Theodore Roosevelt and Robert M. La Follette , the presidential nominees of the 1912 and 1924 Progressive Party tickets, respectively. Neither of those parties was directly related to Wallace's party, though these parties did carry over ideological groups and influenced many members of

1140-512: The "New Party", and the name many used to refer to the party forming around Henry Wallace, was appropriately "Fight for Peace". A major drive for Henry Wallace had always been the ending of the hostile relations between the Soviet Union and the United States and the acceptance of Soviet influence in Europe. Wallace had first espoused such views in 1944, but before long they took a more dramatic tone, as

1197-454: The 1948 Progressive Party. In 1950, at the outbreak of the Korean War , Wallace recanted his foreign policy views and became estranged from his former supporters. The party nominated attorney Vincent Hallinan to run for president in 1952 , and Hallinan won 0.2% of the national popular vote. The party began to disband in 1955 as opponents of anti-Communism became increasingly unpopular, and

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1254-501: The ALP after the party endorsed Wallace for president. Albert Fitzgerald and Julius Emspak of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America formed a committee supporting Wallace, but were unable to have the executive board endorse him. The Steel Workers Organizing Committee and United Auto Workers opposed Wallace. William Green , president of the AFL, also opposed Wallace. Isacson

1311-633: The ALP's line. Wallace was uninvolved with the creation of the party's organization and instead had Calvin Benham Baldwin manage it. The party held its national convention each year, rather than the traditional four, in the vein of the Labour Party . The party suffered from a lack of union support. The CIO called for all of its ALP-affiliated unions to disaffiliate and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America withdrew its support of

1368-527: The Arts, Sciences and Professions (ICCASP) in 1944. Wallace dissented from the hard line that Truman was taking against the Soviet Union , a stance that won him favor among fellow travelers and others who were opposed to what became known as the Cold War . He received support from two major organizations, NCPAC and ICCASP. The NCPAC and ICCASP held a conference in Chicago from September 28–29, 1946, in order to discuss

1425-597: The Democratic Party after the election. In Massachusetts , the anti-war Progressive Party was active in 1948 and faced discrimination in this state also. On May 31, 1948, for instance, Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston , a Democrat, denied the use of the bandstand on the Boston Common to the Progressive Party of Massachusetts. The following month, however, on June 29, one of the African-American leaders of

1482-565: The Labor party because of its support of Mr. Wallace's candidacy for President, which has left the Communists and other left-wing elements in complete control of that party's organization. More broadly, in the run-up to the presidential election , the Democrats nominated Harry Truman to run for a full term while New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey , who had lost to Roosevelt in 1944 , was renominated by

1539-463: The MTA fare increase before the 1949 mayoral election. But although his campaign's anti-fare increase song was subsequently turned into a national hit record in the 1950s, O'Brien failed to win the local Boston election in 1949. When The Kingston Trio decided to record "The MTA Song", it was apparently agreed to change the first name of the O'Brien referred to in the song from "Walter" to "George", because it

1596-580: The New Jersey Communist Party. In February 1948, two days before a special election put American Labor Party candidate Isacson into Congress, The New York Times analyzed the shifting background of the Progressive Party: The question involved in the special election is how strongly the Labor [ALP] party vote will hold up after withdrawal of the ACWA and other anti-Communist unions from

1653-593: The New York branch of the Progressive Party." The ALP also helped form a "New York State Wallace for President" conference, held on April 3, 1948. During the Progressive Party's convention Elinor S. Gimbel was on the Arrangements committee, Leo Isacson on Credentials, Vito Marcantonio and John Abt on Rules, and Lee Pressman , W. E. B. Du Bois , and Mary Van Kleeck on Platform. The Progressives declined to create their own ballot line in New York and instead solely used

1710-681: The Progressive Party, Paul Robeson , was allowed to speak in the Crystal Ballroom in Boston's Hotel Bradford. In Virginia , in 1948, Virginia Foster Durr ran for the U.S. Senate seat on the Progressive ticket. The party had 228,688 registered voters in New York and 22,461 in California. U.S. Senator Robert F. Wagner resigned in 1949, causing a special election to be held. Marcantonio sought to have Wallace run, which would have aided Marcantonio in

1767-683: The Republican Party. Dewey had defeated the isolationist, non-interventionist senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio for the GOP nomination and favored an aggressive policy against the USSR. The former Communist National Committee member Bella Dodd asserts in School of Darkness that the Progressive Party of 1948 had Wallace as its voice and "inspirational leader" but was really controlled by top U.S. Communists, in particular William Z. Foster and Eugene Dennis , who filled

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1824-519: The concurrent New York City mayoral election , but Wallace declined. A second national convention was held in Chicago in February 1950, with around 1,200 delegates from 35 states in attendance. Wallace denounced communist members of the party and stated that "Our principles are vastly different from those of the Communist Party". Wallace proposed a program with ten points that would stop the United States from falling to war, fascism, and communism. The plank

1881-550: The expansion of the welfare system, and the nationalization of the energy industry among others. The formation of the Progressive Party began in 1946, after United States Secretary of Commerce and former Vice President and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace was sacked in 1946 from the Truman administration having begun to publicly oppose Truman's policies. Calls for a third party had been growing even before Wallace, whom Franklin D. Roosevelt replaced as vice president with

1938-421: The formation of a new political party. The Independent Progressive Party was formed in California with the support of Francis Townsend 's organization. The party needed to collect 275,970 signatures in three months in order to be on the 1948 ballot, but Wallace had not announced his presidential candidacy yet. The PCA announced its support for a Wallace candidacy on December 17. Wallace stated that during 1947 it

1995-550: The invasion by communist North Korea . Wallace came out in support of American intervention in the Korean War . O. John Rogge , James Stewart Martin , and John E. T. Camper supported Wallace's stance. Resolutions condemning Wallace's support for intervention were passed by the affiliates in Connecticut, Maryland, and New York. Wallace left the party three weeks after announcing his support for intervention. Martin, Camper, Thomas I. Emerson , Corliss Lamont , and others also left

2052-526: The later state Progressive Parties, thus linking the 1948-1960s group to the Vermont Progressive Party , Wisconsin Progressive Party , Minnesota Progressive Party, California Progressive Party , Oregon Progressive Party , and Washington Progressive Party , as well as the Citizens Party of the 1980s and 90s. One of The Kingston Trio's most popular folk songs in the 1950s, " The MTA Song ",

2109-526: The left-wing slate, but those electors were invalidated by a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling. The party initially expected Wallace's campaign to cost around $ 3 million. This would come from fundraisers by the PCA, left-wing unions, and admissions to rallies. Anita McCormick Blaine, a heiress of International Harvester , donated over $ 100,000 to the party according to Wallace. The party planned on raising $ 1 million from union organizations, but only raised $ 9,025 compared to Truman's $ 1.5 million. The membership of

2166-710: The more moderate Truman at the 1944 Democratic National Convention , left the Truman Administration. The political action committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations formed the National Citizens Political Action Committee (NCPAC) during the 1944 election to broaden its support outside of labor. The Independent Voters Committee, which was formed during the 1940 election, grew into the Independent Citizens Committee of

2223-695: The nascent Cold War era, the Wallace-Taylor ticket garnered no votes in the United States Electoral College and only 2.4% of the popular vote, a far smaller share than most pundits had anticipated; some historians have suggested that the Progressive campaign did Truman more good than harm, as their strident criticism of his foreign policy helped to undercut Republican claims that the administration's policies were insufficiently anti-Communist. Nearly half of these votes came in New York (possibly tipping

2280-484: The party and the range of issues it covered show the diversity of the people who formed the "New Party" in 1948, who included many socialists as well as Communists. Among the policies the Progressive Party hoped to implement were the end of all Jim Crow laws and segregation in the South, the advancement of women's rights , the continuation of many New Deal policies including national health insurance and unemployment benefits,

2337-478: The party. Marcantonio lost reelection to the U.S. House in the 1950 election . Vincent Hallinan and Charlotta Bass were the party's presidential and vice-presidential nominees in the 1952 United States presidential election . They received 140,000 votes nationally with around half being from New York. Peter J. Hawley, chair of the ALP, announced its dissolution in October 1956. In 1948, 51% of people polled by

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2394-690: The previous Jane's husband, dr George Mayberry. John Thomas McManus died age 56 in November 1961 of a heart attack. His wife moved in 1969 to Cuba to live with her third husband William Lee Brent , whom she met and married on the island, until her death. In 1952, Whittaker Chambers mentioned McManus in a personal anecdote from the early 1940s: Across the table from me was sitting John McManus, then Time' s very fluent radio writer, later an American Labor Party candidate for Governor of New York. He stared at me balefully. "I should think your favorite movie," he said, "would be The Informer ." A mighty armor

2451-495: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Independent Socialist Party . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Independent_Socialist_Party&oldid=1147057393 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Political party disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

2508-442: The staff of the new party with people loyal to themselves and dictated self-defeating policies to the Progressive Party. Dodd concluded: The reason they wanted a small limited Progressive Party was because it was the only kind they could control. They wanted to control it because they wanted a political substitute for the Communist Party, which they expected would soon be made illegal. A limited and controlled Progressive Party would be

2565-407: The state and its 47 electoral votes from Truman to Dewey), where Wallace ran on the ALP ballot line. The Progressives ran 114 candidates for U.S. House across twenty-five states and nine U.S. Senate candidates. Marcantonio, who was an incumbent representative, was their only candidate to win and Isacson lost reelection. Taylor, who was the party's only member in the U.S. Senate, left and returned to

2622-516: The state convention had Hubert Humphrey not held an unscheduled meeting of the party's central committee. Humphrey was able to set all of the convention details and committees. Wallace's supporters only won 19 of the 85 county convention delegations and the convention's credentials committee refused to seat these delegates. Left-wing members of the DFL held a rival convention and nominated a slate of pro-Wallace electors. Secretary of State Mike Holm accepted

2679-471: The testimony of Winston Burdett , a famous CBS war correspondent. In 1956, McManus testified, citing Fifth Amendment protections to avoid naming names or admit any knowledge of Communist activities. McManus met his wife, journalist Jane Bedell McManus (ca. 1920-2005), while working at the National Guardian in the 1950s. They adopted two children, Enid Paul Mayberry and Sharon Mayberry, daughters of

2736-605: Was Frank Kingdon , co-chair of the PCA, that pressured him the most to run for president. However, Kingdon, who was seeking the Democratic nomination in New Jersey's U.S. Senate election , resigned as co-chair and stated that he wanted Wallace to run for the Democratic nomination rather than as a third-party candidate. Bartley Crum, vice-chair of the PCA, also resigned. Wallace launched his presidential campaign on December 29. The American Labor Party (ALP) "formally organized itself as

2793-585: Was controlled from the outset by those representing the radical left and not liberalism per se. This made it extremely easy for Communists and fellow travelers to infiltrate into important positions within the party machinery. Once this happened, party stands began to resemble a party line. Campaign literature, speech materials, and campaign slogans sounded strangely like echoes of what Moscow wanted to hear. As if wearing moral blinkers, Wallace increasingly became an imperceptive ideologue. Words were uttered by Wallace that did not sound like him, and his performance took on

2850-565: Was critical of the Cold War and McCarthyism and supportive of the labor movement and racial equality . He would co-edit the paper until his death in 1961. In November 1955, McManus and Aronson were among 26 former and current New York Times employees subpoenaed by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee . The subcommittee was investigating Communist infiltration in the American media. The subpoenas were based upon

2907-494: Was dropped from the Democratic ticket in 1944. Following the end of World War II , Wallace emerged as a prominent critic of President Harry S. Truman 's Cold War policies. Wallace's supporters held the 1948 Progressive National Convention , which nominated a ticket consisting of Wallace and Democratic Senator Glen H. Taylor of Idaho . Despite challenges from Wallace, Republican nominee Thomas E. Dewey , and Strom Thurmond of

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2964-587: Was elected to the United States House of Representatives from New York's 24th congressional district in a 1948 special election. Baldwin, Wallace's campaign manager, stated that Isacson's victory was proof that the United States wanted a new party. Wallace attempted to gain the support of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party . Wallace supporters controlled a majority of the DFL's executive committee and would have controlled

3021-1400: Was feared that a hit record which referred to "Walter O'Brien" would make it even more difficult than it already was for the former Progressive Party candidate to find a New England employer who was willing to hire him during the McCarthy Era . Henry Wallace's bid for the presidency attracted the support of many prominent people in academia and the arts. Among those who publicly supported Wallace were Larry Adler , George Antheil , Marc Blitzstein , Kermit Bloomgarden , Morris Carnovsky , Lee J. Cobb , Aaron Copland , Howard da Silva , W. E. B. DuBois , Albert Einstein , Howard Fast , Ava Gardner , Uta Hagen , Dashiell Hammett , Lillian Hellman , Judy Holliday , Libby Holman , John Huston , Burl Ives , Sam Jaffe , Garson Kanin , Howard E. Koch , John Howard Lawson , Canada Lee , Norman Mailer , Albert Maltz , Thomas Mann , Lewis Milestone , Arthur Miller , Clifford Odets , Linus Pauling , S. J. Perelman , Anne Revere , Budd Schulberg , Adrian Scott , Artie Shaw , Philip Van Doren Stern , I. F. Stone , Louis Untermeyer , Mark Van Doren , Frank Lloyd Wright , Charlie Chaplin , Oona O'Neill , Gregory Peck , Lena Horne , Edward G. Robinson , Jose Ferrer , Gene Kelly , Zero Mostel , Pete Seeger , Paul Robeson , Katharine Hepburn . Lawson, Maltz and Scott were members of

3078-566: Was fully dissolved, with the exception of a few affiliated state Progressive Parties, by the late 1960s. The Progressive Party of Henry Wallace was, and remains, controversial due to the issue of communist influence. The party served as a safe haven for communists, fellow travelers and anti-war liberals during the Second Red Scare . Prominent Progressive Party supporters included U.S. Representative Vito Marcantonio , writer Norman Mailer and, briefly, actress Ava Gardner . The slogan of

3135-468: Was having a hard time with this proposition. It was also clear that [Eugene] Dennis and his clique of smart boys were reserving to themselves the right to make the final decision, and that the Party in general was being kept pretty much in the dark. The 1948 Progressive Party is only tenuously connected to the original Progressive Party (1912–1932). Members of the 1948 Progressive Party, however, have joined

3192-542: Was heavily debated before Marcantonio ended it by giving his support to the plank. After the 1948 election, Wallace grew increasingly estranged from the party. His speeches started to include mild criticism of Soviet foreign policy, which was anathema to many leftists in the party. The final break came in 1950, when the Progressive Party's executive committee issued a policy statement against US military involvement in Korea, and soundly rejected Wallace's proposed language criticizing

3249-434: Was written by supporters of the Progressive Party of Massachusetts' 1949 Boston mayoralty candidate, Walter A. O'Brien . After Boston's publicly funded MTA purchased the privately owned Boston Elevated Railway's subway and trolley system for $ 30 per share more than each share was worth, the MTA imposed a fare increase on the citizens of Boston. Progressive Party mayoral candidate O'Brien then led unusually large protests against

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