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How to cast a bullet vote
The bullet vote can do it!
Bullet votes on the Near North side and
bullet votes on the West Side can put two
fighting candidates in the Springfield assem
bly.
Those candidates are war-widow Doro
thea S. Allen in the 29th Senatorial Dis
trict and trade-union leader Sylvia
§§ Woods in the 21st Senatorial District.
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jj BOTH ARE running for the office of
jj state representative and both can win with
g the bullet vote.
1 The bullet vote works this way. Each
M voter has three votes to make for state rep
-3 resentative in their district.
1 By marking X before the names of Al
gf len and Woods and only Allen and
m Woods — for state representatives in the
M 29th and 21st, those candidates get three
8 votes each.
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THE BULLET vote for Allen and Woods
g means concentrating your power behind the
jj two candidates who are responsible not to
H the Big Party machines but to the people
j of their communities.
I
Cracks party lines:
Woods wins wide support in 21st
By FRANK SHERMAN
The meat trusts are worrying “about their profits” but Sylvia Woods is worried “about
the people."
Sylvia Woods, independent can
didate for State Representative
in the 21st Senatorial District,
has spurred her campaign with a
fighting platform that has roused
wide enthusiasm in the District.
When the packers hoarded the
meat in order to break price con
trol, Sylvia Woods demanded,
“let the government seize the
packing industry and run it in
the public interest.”
# * #
WHEN the President took to
the air to tell the people that he
was forced by the greed of the
packers to lift controls on meat,
Mrs. Woods pointed out, “Mr.
Truman is right about the greed
of the packers, but surrendering
to them will not satisfy their
greed.”
W r hether it has been on the
question of playgrounds for chil-
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Open Door Policy
THE CHICAGO STAR, NOVEMBER 8, 191,9
Year after year the party bosses have com- jj
bined to put up three candidates for the gj
three offices—just so there won’t be any jj
competition from the people.
I’ear after year people in the 21st and 291 i jj
District have had no choice in voting for g
state representatives. It was take it or leave- jj
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BUT THIS year people “Back of the Gold g
Coast'’ and the voters on the West Side have jj
a fourth candidate—their own candidate.
Sylvia Woods and “Dot” A lieu are |
backed in their communities by voters jj
of all nationalities, by Negro and white, jj
labor, civic and veteran leaders who jj
have united to put over a progressive jj
platform.
That’s why only the bullet vote for Allen jj
and Woods can beat the Big Party machines jj
and put in independents who’ll represent the jj
people.
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THE BULLET vote is the one way to kill jj
three birds with one stone. The one way to jj
make your vote count—triple for “Dot” Al- gj
len and Sylvia Woods. ■
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SYLVIA WOODS
dren, high cost of living, Jim
Crow, anti-Semitism or old age
pensions, Mrs. Woods has taken
the lead in organizing the peo-
pie to speak up for their demands
in a clear and united voice.
A militant trade unionist, Syl
via Woods is the financial secre
tary of Local 330, United Auto
Workers of America, (CIO) and
campaigns with the endorsement
of the CIO-PAC. She has strong
support'’ from the Fur, Leather
and Luggage Workers; Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers; Food
and Tobacco Workers; Long
shoremen and Warehouse Work
ers Workers Union; United Auto
Workers and the United Office
and Professional Workers.
• • •
A NEGRO woman and a work
er Mrs. Woods is backed by Slo
vak, Italian, Polish, Russian and
Jewish Fraternal organization.
The Slovak group has taken oVer
14 precincts and pledged they
would go all-out for Sylvia Woods
on Nov. 5
One old timer In the 21st put
it this way. “For years, the politi
cal machines have come to us
with their hand-picked candidates.
Two Democrats and one Republi
can. It was take it or leave it.
This year we have a candidate
with guts enough to go out and
get enough support, to collect
enough signatures, to get a place
on the ballot.
SIX VIA WOOD’S platform'is
straight-forward and direct. “It’s
up to the people of this country
to get the Administration- back
on the path followed by Franklin
Delano Roosevelt both in domes
tic and foreign policy.
“I’m running as an independ
ent candidate because I want to
fight for the needs of my peo
ple, the working people both Ne
gro and white. Hunger and cold
know no color lines. Depressions
hit both Negro and white. Only
by welding a solid unity of all
people regardless of race, color,
creed or political affiliation can
we maintain and raise the living
standards of all people.”
Voters in the 21st are holding
block meetings in their homes
and Inviting their friends and
neighbors to meet Sylvia Woods.
Allen backers plan
post-election drive
People who live on the Gold
Coast and people who live be
hind the Gold Coast have joined
to elect Dorothea S. Allen as
their representative in the 29th
Senatorial District.
There is a new Citizens’ Com
mitee to elect Dorothea Allen,
and to maintain the drive for a
progressive program inspired by
the war Widow.
It is a committee composed of
Italians, Germans, Jews, Poles,
Negroes—in fact, every national
ity grouping in the mixed dis
trict. It is a committee on which
are represented factory and pro
fessional workers, store-owners
and housewives.
# * •
POST-ELECTION plans of the
committe call for the formation
of a Peoples’ Legislative Confer
ence for the purpose of submit
ting legislation to the State as
sembly and another conference
to check upon the results.
The fighting community spirit
of “Dot” Allen made it possible
for citizens of all nationalities to
agree to unite to back the inde
pendent's program.
“Dot” Allen, the widow of Wil
liam Allen, infantryman killed in
action with the 34th Division in
Italy, formed the Back of the
Gold Coast Citizens, Inc., to
tackle community problems such
as housing, recreation, sanitation
and street lighting.
* * *
Co-Chairmen of the Comrfiittee
to Elect Dorothea Allen are Ed
ward Rosenheim and Sally Green
of the Independent Voters of Il
linois, Inc. The Rev. James Roy
ston, pastor of Union 'Baptist
church and Harry Freed of the
United Electrical Workers (CIO)
are vice-chairmen.
Lightfoot write - in
campaign in sth
War-veteran Claude M. Lightfoot is running for State Senator
in the South Side’s sth District-
Although more than 10,000
voters signed petitions to place
the name of Lightfoot on the
Nov. 5 hallot, a Democratic-Re
publican gang-up banned the
name of the popular south sider
from being printed on the ballot.
BUT A mixed Peoples Commit
tee of white and Negro citizens
and leaders have sponsored a
special wsite-in campaign to
place the name of Lightfoot on
the ballot.
A write-in vote for Lightfoot
means support of this clear-cut
12-point program;
1. For world peace and close
cooperation between America,
Russia and Great Britain.
2. For a veterans’ bonus and
more funds for immediate vet
erans’ housing.
3. For a permanent state fair
employment practice committee.
4. For a bill to outlaw restric
tive covenants.
5. For an increase of unem
ployment and old age benefits by
the State.
6. Against lynching and for an
anti-lynch bill.
7. For maximum state funds
to push through as rapidly as
possible a large-scale housing
program; requisition of all avail
able buildings to meet immediate
housing needs.
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DOROTHEA S. ALLEN
PRECINCT workers of the
committee declare that the drive
to get pledges from voters to
mark a bullet vote for Allen has
gained momentum.
“It’s as simple as this,” ex
plained a woman worker, “Just
talk to voters like Dot Allen does.
Dot says, ‘Well, I’m a war wi
dow, so I know what that was
about.
# * *
“ ‘I’M A mother and I know
what it costs to raise children,
what it costs to live. And as a
mother too, I don’t want my
kids to grow up hating anybody,
Negroes, Jews, or anybody else.
“ ‘lt would be bad for the Ne
groes and the Jews, and worse
for my own children.’
“Talk that way and people will
vote for Dot Allen for state rep
resentative and give her the
eighteen thousand votes we need
on November sth.”
CLAUDE M. LIGHTFOOT
8. Against anti-labor legislation
and for an Illinois Wagner Labor
Relations Act.
9. Against anti-Semitism, the
heritage of Hitlerism.
10. For the immediate elimina
tion of sales tax on groceries and
essential clothing.
11. For the election of judges
by Congressional Districts to
make them more responsive to
the local electorate and to give
the local electorate representation
in judicial administration and
procedure.
12 For a bill to investigate and
legislate to correct administra
tive practices of State and Local
governments in the matter of law;
enforcements involving civil]
rights of labor and minority}
groups.