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THAT HE WHO RUNS MAY READ . . .
The Campaign for Congress Begins
First, the Political Action Committee announced its purpose to "purge” so-called "re-actionary” Southern Congressmen and the sum of $1,250,-
000 was mentioned as available for that purpose. It complained bitterly because these Congressmen through seniority rules recognized from time
immemorial hold most important places on House committees. It proposed, therefore, to ask the South to destroy its own influence in Congress
by "purging” them and sending new men who would require many years to reach positions of influence. A rather crude suggestion but seriously
made.
What Is a “Re-actionary” Congressman?
According to the P. A. C., it is one who refuses to jump through the hoop when Sidney Hillman and the P. A. C. crack the whip.
What Is the P. A. C.?
The P. A. C. is headed by Sidney Hillman, bom in Russia, who never worked with his hands in industry a day in his life. Upon the staff of his
"School of Political Action Techniques” held recently at the Willard Hotel in Washington were 31 people, largely of foreign birth, whose life his
tories were given in the Congressional Record of June 11,1946. Everyone of them was reported as either a Communist or belonging to an organ
ization which advocates the destruction of our government by force and violence. This school was held to teach men and women how to go out over
the country and carry on the "purge” campaign.
IS THE P. A. C. TRYING TO NAME
YOUR CONGRESSMAN?
Make Up Your Own Mind
(From the Atlanta Constitution)
A Meeting Sunday to
Organize Plans for
Ouster of Rep. Tarver
ROME, March 21.—As a first
step toward carrying out an
nounced intentions of defeating
Rep. Malcolm Tarver in the next
election, the CIO Political Action
Committee will gather delegates
from all CIO joint boards and
locals in the Seventn District at
10 a. m. Sunday to organize for
political action in the district.
CIO spokesmen here said Tar
ver’s record in Congress indicat
ed to them he was anti-labor and
the P. A. C. will scout the district
for a candidate friendly to labor.”
“We’re out to lick Tarver,” said
one CIO representative.
7TH DISTRICT EDITORS RESENT IT
Fiom the Haralson County Trib
une, March 28, 1946:
THEY WON’T GET ITT
After Tarver’s Scalp
We hear that the Political Ac
tion Committee of the CIO in
the Seventh Congressional Dis
trict iis after Congressman Mal
colm Tarver’s scalp in this year’s
elections.
For a comparatively newcomer
in the Seventh’s political arena,
it appears to us that the PAC
has cut out a pretty big job for
itself.
Congressman Tarver is one of
the hardest working and most
competent Congressmen in Wash
ington and just because he does
not jump at the crack of the CIO
whip, which is all in his favor,
in our estimation.
It is to be noted that some of my friends do not discriminate
between the PAC and the CIO. The PAC is an organization
composed of Sidney Hillman and an aggregation of fellow
travelers who undertake to tell the CIC and other labor
groups how’ to vote, just as they have undertaken to tell Tar
ver liow to vote. In fairness, it must be said that CIO mem
bers in the Seventh Georgia District had nothing to do with
the organization of this super-dictatorial body and certainly
not all of them are going to follow its orders.
Farm Bureau Hits
P. A. C.; Wingate
Asks Showdown
CARTERSVILLE. Ga., April 9.
—A bitter battle between the
Farm Bureau and the Political
Action Committee was foreseen
here Tuesday, after approximate
ly 200 Bartow County farmers
strongly expressed their dislike
To the People of the Seventh District:
I publish the foregoing statements, all substantiated by published articles which many of you have read, in order that you may review them be
fore voting next Wednesday. I have run this race on my record which I believe has your approval. I pointed out in last week’s papers some at
tempted misrepresentations. If others have been or may be made, you know what value to place on them. I have found it necessary or desirable in
any campaign to reflect upon the honesty or integrity of an opponent. I certainly shall not do so now. The forces seeking to 'purge’ me from Con
gress care nothing about my opponent. They simply desire my scalp because I have represented you and not them. I leave the case in your hands
with full confidence as to the result. I am particularly pleased that so many members of labor unions in our district have assured me that Sidney
Hillman will not vote them any more than he has voted me. They know labor has no better friend in Congress than I have been and shall always be.
Gratefully yours,
MALCOLM C. TARVER
From the Atlanta Constitution
March 25, 1945:
P.A.C. Spokesman
Declares Tarver
Anti-Labor in Rome
ROME, March 25.—Rep. Mal
colm Tarver, of the Seventh Dis
trict, apparently is anti-labor,
John W. Edelman, national leg
islative representative of the
TWUA, told delegates of an or
ganizational meeting of the dis
trict Political Action Committee;
a meeting which one CIO spokes
man said was anti-Tarver in de
sign.
From the Dallas New Era. March
28, 1946:
Judge M. C. Tarver
Attacked by C. I. O.
We note that the C. I. O. is
laying plans to defeat Judge
Malcolm C. Tarver for Congress
in the Seventh District. Who is
this C. I. O.? They claim to be
LABOR. They say that the Judge
is unfavorable to labor. The
Judge was reared on a farm in
one of our North Georgia coun
ties and is probably more ac
quainted with real labor than is
the political bosses of the C. .1.
0., and certainly he is a friend
to all who labor, and has always
been.
for plans to defeat Congressman
Malcolm Tarver in the fall elec
tion.
“I’m calling on you in this dis
trict to support Judge Tarver
even if you don’t like the ground
he walks on,” H. L. Wingate, of
Pelham, president of the Georgia
Farm Bureau Federation, told a
farm meeting in the gymnasium
here Monday night. “It’s time for
a showdown. If you want to see
those people come in here and
take over, just sit idly by.”
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Remember the statement
on March 21 as published
above that, “The P. A. C. will
scour the district for a can
didate,” and consider in con
nection therewith the state
ment in the advertisement ac
company by opponent’s an
nouncement that he was “un
willing to seek the office un
til urged by groups of
friends.” Were any of these
“groups” committees sent to
search for a P. A. C. candi
date?
The Press and People
Rally to Tarver
My opponent’s home-town
paper, the Rome News-Trib
une, has repeatedly endorsed
Tarver and said he should
have no opposition for re
election. The following is
noted from its issue of June
27, 1946:
“Congressman Malcolm C. Tar
ver is now third from the top on
the all-powerful House Appropri
ations Committee, through which
money for all purposes must be
obtained.
“By years of diligence and ex-
MALCOLM C. TARVER
perience he has become one of
the most powerful and highly, re
spected members of the House. It
is this condition that has en
abled him to obtain money for
such enterprises as the levee
system that protects Rome’s
Fourth Ward area; the cash with
which to start the great Alla
tocna development, and to have
incorporated in the Rivers and
Harbors bill an authorization of
$60,000,000 with which to start
work upon the task of opening
the Coosa-Alabama rivers for
navigation from Rome to Mobile.
Tarver’s Home-Town
Paper for Him Also
From the Dalton Newts, July 2,
1946:
“With this issue, the Dalton
News formally endorses the can
didacy of Rep. Malcolm C. Tar
ver, who is seeking re-election as
Congressman of the Seventh Dis
trict.
Mr. Tarver is a veteran solon
on Capitol Hill. He is a well
known figure in Washington and
holds the respect of his colleagues
for his untiring fight for the
things he thinks are best for the
people.”
The Cobb County Times says:
Times for Tarver
The Times endorses 100 per
cent the candidacy of Judge Mal
colm C. Tarver for re-election as
member of Congress, represent
ing the Seventh District in the
House.
Judge Tarver’s experience and
his length of service in Congress
place him in position of seniori
ty with key committee posts
which give him influence and
power.
While loyal to the administra
tion and to his party, he has been
no “rubber stamp”, but has vot
ed his convictions on critical is
sues which have come before the
House.
He has represented well the in
terests of the district and was
very good to, Cobb County in the
emergency period when the coun
ty needed Federal aid to meet the
exigencies of a greatly increased
population.
Congressman Tarver has estab
lished a fine record as a Repre
sentative.
A legislator who has fulfilled
faithfully the duties of his office,
he deserves re-election. He’ll get
our vote in the primary of July
17th.
The Marietta Journal,
strong Cobb County daily pa
per, has also strongly en
dorsed Tarver, as have the
Cartersville Tribune News
and the Bartow Herald.
The Walker County Mes
senger said editorially on
March 21, 1946:
“Judge Tarver possesses a keen,
analytical mind, is a sincere,
thorough student of the problems
that face the nation, is able to
come to definite conclusions and
form convictions for which he
fearlessly stands, and in our
opinion there is no more able
representative in the Congress
than he, and he is regarded as
tops by his colleagues.”
A telegram just received
under date of July 3, 1946, is
one of many indicating the
strong support of Tarver by
educational authorities:
“The Seventh District appre
ciates what you are doing toward
the promotion of the Federal aid
bill for education as manifested
by your membership of the Bi
partisan Committee. Your con
tinued active support is greatly
appreciated.
/S/ DR. M. D. COLLINS,
State School Supt.
RUTH WILLIAMS
Delegate, N. E. A.”
Thursday, July 11,1946
The president of the Geor
gia Parent-Teacher Associa
tion recently wired Tarver
from its meeting in Athens:
“The Georgia Congress of Par
ents and Teachers appreciates
the interest you have shown in
children and yduth.”
The State Superintendent
of Schools wrote Tarver on
May 3Q, 1946:
“I remember with a great deal
of interest what Congressman
Vinson told me when I was in
Washington some weeks ago. He
said substantially as follows:
‘Congressman Tarver had more
to do with the passage of the
lunch room bill than did ”
(mentioning another member).
“In fact, more credit should go
to Congressman Tarver for the
passage of this measure than any
other Congressman’.”
Mr. R. B. Marston, Legis
lative representative, Nation
al Education Association of
the United States, wrote Tar
ver on June 3, 1946:
“We deeply appreciate your in
terest as a member of Congress
in strengthening public educa
tion through Congressional ac
tion for peace abroad and for
prosperity at home. Particularly
is your membership on the House
Bi-partisan Committee for the
support of Federal aid for Pub
lic Schools deeply appreciated.”
Hon. Clyde T. Ellis, who is
in charge of the offices of the
Rural Electrification Cooper
aatives in Washington, wrote
Tarver on June 12, 1946:
“Dear Judge:
“The purpose of this letter is
to express to you our apprecia
tion for what you did for the
Rural Electric Cooperatives of
the country last week as one of
the conferees on the Agricultur
al Appropriation Bill lor fiscal
’47.
“Your action in leading the
fight to remove the ‘bad con
tractor’ amendment and to re
store the half million dollars for
REA administrative expenses is
deeply appreciated—as indeed we
have always appreciated your go
ing to bat for the cause so many
times in the past.
“Yours sincerely,
“/S/ CLYDE T. ELLIS
“Executive Manager”
These statements are from
people and papers who know
something of Tarver’s record.
No paper in the Seventh
District has endorsed Tar
ver’s opponent except a small
weekly published in Rome
and managed in part by a
young man who is -also help
ing manage the campaign of
Tarver’s opponent.