| ||| By MIKE DAVIDOW Who are the financial backers of George Wallace’s well-heeled Presidential race? Who picked up the tab for Wallace’s Sept. 3 half-hour professionally filmed documentary of his campaign that appeared on New York’s Channel 4 and 200 other Na- tional Broadcasting Company stations throughout the country during prime time and cost $250,000 to produce? Who are the money men who are raising the $15 million to $20 million that Wallace men casually say they'll spend on the Presidential race. Who are the Krupps and Thyssens of this would-be Am- erican Hitler? A good place to start is Ala- Robert Regualy, Toronto Star staff writer, discovered last week in an_ interview with George Wallace, U.S. presi- dential candidate that he feels Canada should send troops to Vietnam. Other gems include: e Non-recognition of the People’s Republic of China, by Canada. e No trade with China and Cuba, by Canada. e Military victory in Viet- nam, through escalation. bama, which served as the initial base of operations and supplied the cadre and forces for Wal- lace’s two-year Presidential cam- paign. With his wife, Lurleen, since deceased, in the Governor’s seat, Wallace not only milked the Alabama treasury but shook down every big corporation which did business with the state. The Southern Committee on Political Ethics, SCOPE, organ- -ized by a group of liberal edi- tors like Hoddings Carter Jr. and Ralph McGill, noted that while Wallace poses as a “friend of the workingman” he “draws his support from some of the biggest union-haters in the coun- +ry.” Many of these have been thus far able to conceal their identity since a shakedown is hardly “public.” Most corporations took the shakedown as “norma!” busi- ness practice. But those sympa- thetic to Wallace’s anti-labor, racist and ultra-rightist views were comforted by the knowl- edge their contribution would not appear on the books and if PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 27, 1968— ba ar x y " discovered could be explained as having been made under duress. At any rate, there is no evidence of any public protest by any of the large corporations doing business with Alabama. In or- der to impress these business- men with the idea that their contributions were expected to be generous, Wallace chose as one of his top aides Alabama Finance Director Seymore Tram- mell. Trammell supervised more than $30-$40 million a year in state purchases. One of Wallace’s main back- ers hardly needed to be shook down. He is H. L. Hunt, the Labor opposition By TIM WHEELER WASHINGTON Alarmed by a Gallup Poll showing inroads of George C. Wallace among blue collar work- ers, unions across the nation have launched a campaign to ex- pose him as a union-busting ra- cist. Special- concern is displayed by the United Auto Workers, one of whose Michigan locals endorsed Wallace. Frank Wal- lick, editor of the UAW Wash- ington Report, said UAW locals are distributing leaflets based upon an anti-Wallace pamphlet produced by the Southern Com- mittee on Political Education. The SCOPE pamphlet titled “The Wallace Labor Record” states: himself a friend of the working man. . . . He has loaded Ala- bama’s tax structure against the working man and in favor of the rich and well-to-do, and the corporations. He has denied the working man any real improve- ment in unemployment compen- sation law . .. he draws his financial support from some of the biggest union haters in the country. George Wallace has lied to the working man, cheat- ed the working man and double crossed the working man...” Wallick said the endorsement of Wallace by Local 326, Flint, Michigan, ‘in no way reflects the sentiment of the local. The Wallace supporters packed that meeting,” Wallick declared. “Only 200 attended that meeting out of a total membership of 4,500. A meeting is scheduled to reverse the endorsement. Page 6 “George Wallace calls’ He's hacked big alias y Texas oil billionaire and one of the richest men in the U.S., who has a long and consistent record of financing fascist-like causes. Hunt was one of the principal backers of Senator Joe McCar- thy in the witchhunts of* the ’50’s. Hunt incidentally has con- siderable experience in the art of propagandizing reaction and racism. His Facts Forum, which . has been operating tax-free for years, promoted views similar to those now being expounded by Wallace over hundreds of radio stations all over the country. Hunt helped prepare the way for the man he apparently views “Wallace sentiment is rising because he has not been taken on frontally,” he continued. “He has had a free ride. He is talk- ing about the issues on people’s minds, appealing to fear and hate. The last UAW convention vot- ed not to endorse a presidential candidate but mandated the holding of special regional con- ventions for that purpose. The coup staged by the Wallace forces in Flint Michigan was a campaign tactic within the union to place Wallace’s name in nomination when these con- DANGER From the Right as Joe McCarthy’s successor. The. man whom the President invites to the White House for regular briefings and who has thus far been treated by press and TV as the leader of a “‘third party” has assembled a coalition of the nation’s racists, reaction- aries, anti-Semites, anti-labor and fascist-like elements. A re- port issued Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith disclosed that 37 of Wallace’s electors are members of the John Birch Society, White Citizens’ Councils, KKK, Min- utemen and other ultra-rightist groups. grows ventions meet some of them this Saturday, Wallick said. Tens of thousands of leaflets exposing Wallace have been distributed in Baltimore working class areas where Wallace received a sub- stantial vote in the 1964 prim- aries. Similar distributions have been made by workers throughout Pennsylvania, of a leaflet titled “Letter From Alabama . . . The Crime Center of the United States.” The letter from an Ala- bama worker addressed to work- ers in Pennsylvania declares: “We know the harm Wallace has ‘plain Wallace’s GEORGE WALLACE Latest Gallup Poll figures 0” the U.S. Presidential electiot show Nixon with 43 percent of the vote, Humphrey with 3 percent, Wallace with 19 per cent and 7 percent still unde cided. In a New York Times surveys Nixon is shown as carrying states with a combined electoral college total of 346 votes. (A presidential candidate must T& ceive 270 electoral college votes for election.) Wallace is report ed leading in eight states with an electoral college total vote of 77 while Humphrey is favot- ed in six states and the District of Columbia with 42 electoral college votes. : With this strength showing in the Wallace campaign, the Tribune feels that the two art icles reprinted here from the U.S. Daily World will help &* support an some of the reaction of labor to his right-wing, racist appeal. —— _ George Wallace wants ¢ | “running mate on his Ameri: can Independent Party who would be like J. Edgar Hoo- | ver, the director of the FBI. During an interview -@board a plane en route | from Montgomery, he said ‘he was not suggesting that he was thinking of Mr. Hoo- ver for the job, but merely | ‘that he wanted a man of his qualities. = | Too bad George Lincoln Rockwell is dead. sais done to Alabama and we shud- der to think he can bamboozle people in other states, particu- larly you Yankees who are SUP posed to be so much better edu- cated: =e : But while the rank and file 15 moving to counter Wallace, 3 is business-as-usual at AFL-Cl headquarters in Washington. There is evidence that Wallacé is gaining support among work- ing guys,” said an AFL-CIO spokesman. : Another union official here 19 Washington echoed this est rnate: He said, “I don’t think there is any more support for Wallace among working people than any other economic group in the country. . . . Our Prest dent has not made any state ment on the issue. We have made crystal clear our support of Humphrey in past issues 0 our paper. There’s no need t0 blow this thing out of propor tion.” The labor leadership thus waits hopefully for Humphrey to stage for them a “frontal assault on Wallace all the while minimizing the fascist danger he poses, with bland assurances that Wallace “enjoys no more support among workers” than he does among other sectors of the population. Humphrey, meanwhile, shows no inclination whatever to “fron- tal” assaults against the racists. His “frontal” assaults are led by his lieutenant, Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, against peace- ful anti-war demonstraors. Hum- phrey is confident that he has labor’s vote in his pocket any- way because, he reasons, they have no place else to go. There- fore, his strategy is to make all the concessions in the other di- rection, appease the racists, de- fend Mayor Daley, flatter the Pentagon and support continued bombing. en) oc tes anne Th ust .