Shall Union Square Overshadow United States? America's Other 60 Families, the Real Rulers of America... Wake Up America - Repel the Grave Diggers of Capitalism!
- Title:
- Shall Union Square Overshadow United States? America's Other 60 Families, the Real Rulers of America... Wake Up America - Repel the Grave Diggers of Capitalism!
- Alternate Title:
- Shall Union Square Overshadow United States?
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Gill, A. Cloyd
- Other Creators:
- League for Constitutional Government, distributor
- Date:
- 1939
- Posted Date:
- 2015-08-25
- ID Number:
- 1279.01
- File Name:
- PJM_1279_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1920 - 1939
- Materials/Techniques:
- color printing
- Subject:
- New York City
Bias
Communism & Cold War
Pictorial - Measurement:
- 44 x 57 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- In 1937, Ferdinand Lundberg published a widely-read portrayal of "America's Sixty Families," arguing that a small group of immensely wealthy Americans controlled not only the nation's economy, but its press and government as well. This anti-Communist poster by A. Cloyd Gill asserts that "The Real Rulers of America" are 60 left-wing organizations with offices located within a few blocks of Union Square in New York City: "Radical Union Square is the fountainhead of the propaganda of discontent."
Gill shows the Union Square area as a skyscraper casting a shadow across the country, and lists the names and addresses of the 60 offending "Grave Diggers of Capitalism." In addition to a handful of expected Communist and Socialist organizations, the list includes a number of labor groups (Amalgamated Clothing Workers, AFT, CIO, Ladies Garment Workers, Transport Workers) and some other familiar names (ACLU, Consumers Union, the New School, the Urban League).
Gill was long-time editor and associate of William Randolph Hearst; he was fervently anti-labor and anti-Communist. (Not coincidentally, Lundberg had previously published an extremely unflattering biography: "Imperial Hearst.") In 1936, Gill promised extensive favorable coverage by Hearst papers and radio stations nationwide if the American Legion decided to suppress an "Americanism" pamphlet prepared by one its Commanders, on the ground that it gave excessive emphasis to freedom of speech. Seldes 1938, 121-24. He was also one of the organizers of the Asheville Conference, "Christian Americanism against Atheistic Communism," which collapsed in the summer of 1936 amid charges of anti-semitism. Walsh 1936, 14-16. In 1941, the Anti-Defamation League reported that Gill had been fired from the Hearst organization for "extreme bigotry" and was writing pro-German, pro-Japanese, anti-democratic propaganda. Finder 1941, 16.
For another anti-Communist map produced by Cloyd Gill, see ID # 2294.01, “The Fifth Column Menaces America on a Thousand Fronts" (1941).
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- New York: Self-published, 1939
- Repository:
- Private Collection of PJ Mode
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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