The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-13

american contingent.
Forty-seven Big Town Nisei, in
Guiding a delegation from Brook
lyn, set themselves up last Sunday
as New York Nisei- for Wallace
Committee. elected l4-member
empolary steering body and called
upon Nisei liberal progressives in
other japanese American centers
to organize similar voe-hunting
9.itical education groups.
The Nisei subway stra eeists some
Of whom had rung doorbells III the
Bronx a couple of weeks ago to
aelp elect a Wallace man to Con-
2ress, heard Peter Tagger. repre-
senting the National Wallace-for-
President headquarters on gilded
Park Avenue. declare:
I'VE are not in the l948 cam
paign TO make a good showing
we are out to win"
After the meeting conversation
among the near fifty in attendance
seemed to center on the size of the
turnout in relation to the adverse
weather and the evident spontineity
of the meeting which had not had
the fanfare of an organized build
up or the pull" of name" speak
erS.
Pointing to the downpour of rain
outside, Eddie Shimano editor of
the Santa Anita Pacemaker of
Assembly Center renown and now
a free-lance ghost writer here,
quipped:
The Weather and the press are
against us, but I offer two to any
body's one nobody can get this
many Buddhaheads together in
one spot for Truman. Taft or
Dewey, rain or shine"
Tagger assailed anti-Third Par
ty arguments that Wallace's entry
into the Presidential race ensures
a Republican victory in November.
Citing the Democratic debacle in
the 1916 Congressional elections, he
said the Democrats have never
heen able to win unless it champ
toned with more than words a
genuinely progressive, p L o-labor
program.
He pointed to President Tru-
mans failure to line up Demo-
cratic Congressional support for
his veto of the Taft-Hartiey Act
as key example of similarity
between the two reigning parties
on domestic policy.
Most OF the meetings participants
were former West Coast residents
A sprinkling were members of the
American Labor Party, which is
expected to be the Third Party
vehicle in this state. Others de-
clared membership in the Progress
! I've Citizens of America, the organi-
cation which sponsored the former
Vice Presidents candidacy. The
ma ority were independents who
had voted for Roosevelt since reach
ing voting age without being en-
rolled members of any political
party.
Tagger told the meeting 1t was
likely the Democrats would lose
most. if not all. of such key states
as New York, Pennsylvania. Illi-
nois and California "even without
Third Party competition"
Even at the height of the late
President Roosevclt's popularity, he
said, the Democrats won in some
of these pivotal states by danger
ously" slight margins. Regardless
of who wins the PRESIDENCY, the
Third Party in assuring a big turn.
out of the independent vote offers
the best hope for the election Of
more liberals to Congress. he said
Tagger said the rise Of spOn-
taneous pro- Wallace sentiment in
every section of the country is
exceeding all original expecta-
tiOns. He cOunseled the Nisei
group to buttress this sentiment
in the japanese American COM
mpnitv nv giving circulation 10
he facts Of the campaign.
4 We have more than septimen'
On cur side We have the fact:
which give logic 20 our efforts,
he said