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Perhaps leaning toward the 'political' which is banned on the FL...I would guess.
I apologise if my comment was taken as being a little provocative. I sympathise with the plight of many hard up Americans during that period. But the cops were just doin' their jobs. Just sayin'.[huh]
Hmmm..don't really think they are near the same...if you look and listen closely. Just MHO,tho.
Thank you for clarifying Edward's viewpoint. I'm afraid that this thread headed in that direction on the second post. In view of what we are experiencing today and the influence the unions are now exerting with the OWS , there's no way this can not be perceived as political. Same as it was then. Sorry if I overstepped the boundaries here, and I won't continue on this course, but it needed to be said Respectfully exiting this thread.:sorry:Perhaps leaning toward the 'political' which is banned on the FL...I would guess.
There were plenty of Communists in the US in the thirties -- you could buy The Daily Worker at any newsstand in New York, and Earl Browder was often heard giving talks on the radio. I have a recording of a program put on over a tiny station in Brooklyn in 1936 by the New York Young Communists League, promoting their candidate for City Council, who actually did rather well in the election. The Popular Front was actually quite fashionable for a time -- until the Hitler-Stalin pact came along and the backpedaling started.
The Worker took itself much less seriously than a Soviet paper would -- they were sort of like the pinko cousin of the New York Daily News, and the paper was often read by people who had no use for the politics, they just liked the paper for its features. The Worker had one of the best sports sections in the country, and their sports editor, Lester Rodney, was the only acknowledged Communist ever accredited as a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America.
Bizarrely, I miss the Soviet Union. They were so serious that it was always good for a laugh and they sort of gave a lack of style, well ... style.
That is true in general, but there are some people that are willing to take a stand for their beliefs.More to the point, you don't see people willing to *stand up* in the face of such attacks anymore. So much easier to de-friend the bad guys on Facebook. That'll fix 'em.
Not trying to offend but, exactly what sort of talk do you take this to be?
An excellent book about what occurred during the Great Depression by those that lived it, is
"Hard Times" by Studs Terkel. He interviews people from all walks of life and they share their stories with him. I was amazed by the social unrest and labor activities that I had never heard of before. Terkel writes on a wide range of subjects. his best known work is probably "Working". However he writes about social stratification, race, age, and WW2,"the Good War"