The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
PRIEST CLAIMS
So SENATORS
Coughlin, Attacking the
U.S.S.R., Says He Has
Many Backers
BY A. B. Magil
Especial TO the Daily worker)

ROYAL OAK, Mich, Jan. 3d.
Thirty five q. s. Senators are sup
porting Father Charles E. Cough
Inns National Union for Social Jus
tice, a movement which its founder
and leader is trying to build along
fascist lines as a dixie against Com
munisnn.
This was the statement that
Coughlin made last night before an
audience that packed the chapel
next to his Shrine of the Little
Flower, the million dollar church
built with scab labor. Coughlin
named the following among the
thirty five:
Huey Long, of Louisiana,
Thomas of Oklahoma, Wheeler of
Montana, McCarran of Nevada,
Walsh and Coolidge of Massachu-
sets, Wagner Of New York,
Doheny Of Ohio, Johnson of Cali
fornia, and Borah of Idaho.
Coughlin also referred to Senator
Henrik Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite
of Minnesota, as "a close friend of
mine" and declared he had been
called by Shipstead at 1870 a. m.
that morning over long distance
telephone from Washington.
In response to question What
do you think of LaFollette's Pro-
gressive Party?" He relied: I'm
for it thousand per cent.
Implies LaFolIette Backing
The implication is that the La
Toilette Progressives, with whom
the A. F. Of L. and Socialist lead
ers are flirting, and the Minnesota
Farmer-Labor chiefs are also back
ing the fascist-tinged Coughlin
movement.
Coughlins statements came in
the course of what was the last for
some time to come of his Tuesday
night lectures.
The sleek radio priest opened
with an attack on the Soviet Union
declaring that the status of the
Russian workers today was the
same and even worse than under
the Cars. Later on he shouted:
UNLESS Social Justice conquers
the world, you're going to have
in fifty or sixty years Commu-
nism in this country. We have
to win because il we don't, it's
the Red rule of Communism"
In contrast to this was his dodg-
ing of two questions regarding his
attitude toward the Nazis, indicat-
ing where his real sympathies lie.
what do you think Of the Ger
man Nazi program" was one ques-
ton. The answer was: I'D rather
not discuss it"
The second question: What
planks in the Nazi platform do you
think the National Union ought to
adopt?" He replied-this man who
processes to be in tough with every
thing that is happening in the
world = 81 don't know the Nazi
platform"
Coughlin, who within nine days
had delivered three radio talks over
national hookups, opposing Amer
lean adherence to the World Court
claimed credit last night for the
defeat of this measure in the Sc
nate. He praised the editorial along
the same lines that appeared in yes
terdays Hearst press as "one of the
most patriotic editorials ever writ
ten and described its author as a
friend of his.
The radio priest again, as on the
previous Tuesday, indicated that he
has close ties with Huey Long,
whom he described as "the best Con-
stitutional lawyer in the United
States" and a man who speaks
the peoples language and the
peoples thoughts" Asked whether
his organization would support Long
as candidate for President in 1886,
Coughlin lodged a direct answer
and said; I'm keeping my tongue
in my cheek"
For the second successive time
Coughlin called on automobile
workers not to join the A. F. of L.
or the company unions, but to or
ganize in "one union for all auto
workers"