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ones are hopefully struggling along in the expectation of bigger
and better and more patriotic days when the pickings will be
more than
attractive.
Every time I start looking into organizations with highsounding and impressive names, I am profoundly impressed
with the accuracy of Barnum s noted observation. Raise the cry
of "patriotism" and perfectly good Americans forget to try to
find out just what the "patriotic" activities are, and shell out
without a murmur. Industrialists particularly like the "Ameri
of the patriotic groups because almost all of them
incorporate an anti-labor policy. The propaganda, of course, is
canism"
rarely conducted as an open fight against labor, but
as a fight to save America from the Communists.
is
put across
Some
of the racketeering patriotic organizations with a more
devout following include the National Republican Pub
lishing Company, Washington, D. C., the American Vigilant
Intelligence Federation, Chicago, 111., the Paul Reveres, Chicago,
or
less
111., the Industrial Defense Association, Boston, Mass., the Ameri
can Nationalists, Inc., New York, N. Y. and the American Na
tionalist Party, Los Angeles, Calif. There are a number of others,
but these are some of the most blatant.
The National Republican Company, 511 nth Street, N.W.,
Washington, D. C., is one of the most influential. It publishes
the National Republic, a journal accepted by men high in public
and by leading
office
cate
"Americanism"
industri