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MS-140

 

SOCIAL JUSTICE NEWSPAPER COLLECTION –

FOUNDED BY FATHER COUGHLIN

 

INTRODUCTION

 

The Social Justice Newspaper Collection was accessioned into the Library Archives and Special Collections on 3 January 1989.  It was donated to the Library by Mr. James Hemmert of Piqua, Ohio.  The newspapers reflect the political, economic, and social views of Father Charles Coughlin, the “Radio Priest” of the 1930s.  The newspaper articles are strongly anti-communist, anti-New Deal and anti-Franklin Roosevelt, pro-worker but anti-union, anti-war (but not pacifist), anti-immigrant, and anti-semitic.   The newspapers are important in the history of the National Union for Social Justice which ran William Lepke for President in 1936 and in the creation of the Christian Front.  The newspapers are also a valuable source of information on social protest in the 1930s.

 

The newspapers in the collection date from 22 June 1936 to 23 February 1942.  The collection is housed in one Gaylord 31x18x6” box and includes 129 files (each issue comprises one file).  There are no restrictions on the use of the materials in this collection.

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

The Social Justice Newspaper Collection is divided into seven series by years of publication:

 

SERIES I:  1936 – The collection contains issues from June to October 1936.

 

SERIES II:  1937 – The collection contains the December 1937 issues only.

 

SERIES III:  1938 – The collection contains three issues in January 1938 and the issues from May to October 1938.

 

SERIES IV:  1939 – The collection contains the issues from November to December 1939.

 

SERIES V:  1940 – The collection the issues from January to April and from September through December 1940.

 

SERIES VI:  1941 – The collection contains forty-six issues from 1941.

 

SERIES VII:  1942 – The collection contains the January and February issues for 1942.

 

SERIES VIII: Books by Father Coughlin – The collection contains two collections of Fr. Coughlin’s radio broadcasts, one in 1935 and one in 1936.

 

MISSING ISSUES:

 

HISTORY

 

Charles Edward Coughlin, the son of third generation Irish immigrants, was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on 25 October 1891.  After graduating from St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto, he studied for the priesthood at St. Basil’s Seminary and was ordained in 1916. 

 

During his training Coughlin was deeply influenced by the encyclical On the Condition of the Working Class, published by Pope Leo XIII in 1891.  In this document the pope called for far-reaching reforms to create a more just society in order to counter the growing support for Socialism in the world.

 

After assisting in several parishes in the Detroit area, Coughlin was assigned to the new Shrine of the Little Flower Church in Royal Oak, Michigan in 1926.  On 3 October 1926 he started a weekly broadcast over the local radio station, WJR.  Initially, the broadcast was intended for children but it gradually changed to adult topics and Coughlin began expressing his views on the need for social reform.  Within four years CBS was broadcasting Coughlin’s radio program throughout the United States.

 

Coughlin was highly critical of the government in the Soviet Union.  Coughlin warned of the dangers of “socialism, communism, and kindred fallacious social and economic theories.”  Coughlin believed the best way of combating the appeal of these ideologies was the introduction of reforms that would make America a more equal society.  This included industrialists paying their workers a “just and living wage” and “providing old age compensation insurance.”  He also denounced the greed and corruption of America’s industrialists and warned about the dangers of the “concentration of wealth in the hands of the few.”

 

Late in 1930 Coughlin began to criticize the government of President Herbert Hoover.  CBS warned him to “tone down” his broadcasts, When Coughlin refused, CBS decided not to renew his contract when it expired in April 1931.  Coughlin responded by organizing his own radio network which eventually grew to over 30 stations.

 

During the 1932 presidential election, Coughlin advocated that his listeners should vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt.  He coined the phrase “Roosevelt or ruin” during the 1932 campaign.

 

Coughlin gradually grew disillusioned with Roosevelt and on 11 November 1934, he announced the formation of the National Union of Social Justice.  It was estimated that Coughlin’s radio broadcasts were getting an audience of 30 million people.  He was also having to employ twenty-six secretaries to deal with the between 80,000 and 400,000 letters a week (sources disagree on the number) he was receiving from his listeners.  As well as his radio broadcasts, Coughlin also began publishing Social Justice Weekly, a journal which soon achieved a circulation of over one million copies.

 

In May 1935 Coughlin began having talks with Huey Long, Francis Townsend, Gerald L.K. Smith, Milo Reno, and Floyd B. Olson about a joint campaign to take on President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 presidential elections.  Long was expected to be the candidate but he was assassinated on 8 September 1935.  The following year Coughlin joined with Francis Townsend, Gerald L.K. Smith and followers of the late Huey Long to take on Roosevelt in the 1936 presidential election.  The National Union of Social Justice selected William Lepke (or Lemke, sources differ on spelling) from North Dakota, as the party’s candidate, but he won only 882,479 votes compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 27,751,597 votes and Alfred Landon’s 16,679,583 votes.

 

After this defeat Coughlin replaced the national Union of Social Justice with the Christian Front and concentrated on the dangers of communism.  Coughlin also became an isolationist.

 

In the late 1930s Coughlin moved sharply to the right and accused Franklin D. Roosevelt of “leaning toward international socialism or sovietism.”  He also praised the actions of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in the fight against communism in Europe.  On 20 November 1938, Coughlin defended the activities of the Nazi Government as a necessary defense against the Soviet Union. 

 

Coughlin claimed that Marxist atheism in Europe was a Jewish plot.  Coughlin also attacked the influence of Jews in America and this resulted in him being described as a fascist.  In April 1941, Coughlin endorsed the America first committee.  However, his now open Anti-Semitism made this endorsement a mixed blessing for the organization.  In September 1940 he described President Roosevelt as “the world’s chief war-monger.”

 

When the United States entered the Second World War the national Association of Broadcasters arranged for Coughlin’s radio broadcasts to be brought to an end.  The Post Office also banned his weekly newspaper, Social Justice, from the mail.  On 1 May 1942, Archbishop Francis Mooney ordered Coughlin to bring an end to his political activities.  He was warned that if he refused he would be defrocked.  Publication of Social Justice ceased on 4 May 1942.  Father Coughlin continued to pastor the congregation of the Shrine of the Little Flower Church until his retirement in 1966.  He continued to write pamphlets denouncing Communism until his death on 27 October 1979.

 

 

Information for this history was taken from THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES LEARNING CURVE located on the internet at www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcoughlinE.htm.

 

 

BOX INVENTORY

 

BOX 1

 

 

FILE #

DESCRIPTION

 

SERIES I: 1936

*

Volume 1, Numbers 1-14 – From the first issue to 15 June 1936 are not part of the collection.

1

Volume 1, Number 15 – 22 June 1936 – Headlines – “Coughlin’s Challenge: Radio Blast Hits F.D.R., G.O.P.,” “New Party Upsets ’36 Campaign,” and “Lemke Candidate for President.”

*

Volume 1, Numbers 16 & 17 – 29 June and 6 July 1936 are not part of the collection.

2

Volume 1, Number 18 – 13 July 1936 – Headline – G.O.P. Concedes N. Dak. To Lemke.”

3

Volume 2, Number 1 – 27 July 1936 – Headline – “Forces United!” union of Dr. Townsend (Old Age Revolving Pension Plan), Rev. Gerald L.K. Smith (Share Our Wealth), and Father Coughlin.

4

Volume 2, Number 2 – 3 August 1936 – Headline – “Fr. Coughlin Target Of Hearst Press Plot.”

5

Volume 2, Number 3 – 10 August 1936 – Headline – “NUSJ [National Union for Social Justice] Convention Cleveland Aug. 14-16.”

6

Volume 2, Number 4 – 17 August 1936 – Headline – NUSJ Delegates Are Welcomed To Cleveland.”

*

Volume 2, Numbers 5 & 6 – 24 and 31 August 1936 are not part of the collection

7

Volume 2, Number 7 – 7 September 1936 – Headline – “Recovery A Failure Despite ‘New Deal’.”

8

Volume 2, Number 8 – 14 September 1936 – Headline – “150,000 Throng Park For Chicago Rally.”

*

Volume 2, Number 9 – 21 September 1936 is not part of the collection.

9

Volume 2, Number 10 – 28 September 1936 – Headline – “National Union Victor in Primary Elections.”

*

Volume 2, Number 11 – 5 October 1936 is not part of the collection.

10

Volume 2, Number 12 – 12 October 1936 – Headline – “Unionists On Ballot In Massachusetts.”

*

Volume 2, Number 13-23, 19 October-28 December 1936 are not part of the collection.

 

 

SERIES II: 1937

*

All of Volume 3 and Volume 4 Numbers 1-15 – 4 January-29 November 1937 are not part of the collection.

11

Volume 4, Number 16 – 6 December 1937 – Headline – “Annual Wage Taken Up By The Administration!”

12

Volume 4, Number 17 – 13 December 1937 – Headline – “Father Coughlin Returns to Air!”

13

Volume 4, Number 18 – 20 December 1937 – Headline – “U.S. Debt Unpayable; Government Borrows.”

14

Volume 4, Number 19 – 27 December 1937 – Headline – “Defeat of Wage Bill Is Blow To New Deal.”

 

 

SERIES III: 1938

15

Volume 5, Number 1 – 3 January 1938 – Headline – “Father Coughlin On 60 Stations!”

16

Volume 5, Number 2 – 10 January 1938 – Headline – “America, Awake!  Time For Action: Nation Demands Congress Rout Bankers who Made Depression; The Time For ‘Alibis’ Has Passed.”

17

Volume 5, Number 3 – 17 January 1938 – Headline – “Together We Stand To Remake America.”

*

Volume 5, Numbers 4-9 – 24 January-28February 1938 are not in the collection.

*

Volume 1A, Numbers 1-10 – 2 March-4 May 1938 are not in the collection.

18

Volume 1A, Number 11 – 16 May 1938 – Headline – “Plowing Under The G-Men.”

19

Volume 1A, Number 12 – 23 May 1938 – Headline – “The Mother of ‘All’.”  An attack on Labor Secretary Frances Perkins and a call for immigration restriction.

20

Volume 1A, Number 13 – 30 May 1938 – Front Page – “Memorial Day.”  An attack on Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau.

21

Volume 1A, Number 14 – 6 June 1938 – Front Page – “LaGuardia’s Kite” concerning New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

22

Volume 1A, Number 15 – 13 June 1938 – Front Page – An attack on Earl Browder and the Communist Convention in New York City.

23

Volume 1A, Number 16 – 20 June 1938 – Front Page – “The Christian Front” with a picture of Pope Pius XI.

24

Volume 1A, Number 17 – 27 June 1938 – Front Page – “The Brazen Serpent” an attack on John L. Lewis and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (C.I.O.).

25

Volume 2A, Number 1 – 4 July 1938 – Front Page – “The Spirit of Independence.”

26

Volume 2A, Number 2 – 11 July 1938 – Front Page – “The First lady Likes Pink” an attack on the leftist liberalism of Mrs. Roosevelt.

27

Volume 2A, Number 3 – 18 July 1938 – Front Page – “Crown Prince Jimmy” accuses James Roosevelt of profiting from New Deal programs.

28

Volume 2A, Number 4 – 25 July 1938 – Front Page – “He Teaches Congress” on the financial reform proposals of Congressman Charles G. Binderup of Nebraska.

29

Volume 2A, Number 1 – 4 July 1938 – Front Page – A statement of the editorial policy of Social Justice.

30

Volume 2A, Number 6 – 8 August 1938 – Front Page – “The Most Reverend John Francis Noll” and “Bishop Noll Appeals for Christian Front.”

31

Volume 2A, Number 7 – 15 August 1938 – Front Page – “No Politician Is Worth $1.75” concerning the campaign of W. Lee O’Daniel for Governor of Texas.

32

Volume 2A, Number 8 – 22 August 1938 – Front Page – Picture and article praising Sen. Bennett Champ Clark (son of former Sen. Champ Clark) of Missouri.

33

Volume 2A, Number 9 – 29 August 1938 – Front Page – “Take Tax Off Food.”

34

Volume 2A, Number 10 – 5 September 1938 – Front Page – “Put The Building Trades To Work!”

35

Volume 2A, Number 11 – 12 September 1938 – Front Page – “John J. O’Connor, New Deal Heckler.”

36

Volume 2A, Number 12 – 19 September 1938 – Front Page – “Constitution Day September 17, 1787-1938!”

37

Volume 2A, Number “14” [13] – 26 September 1938 – Front Page – “Garner To Oppose Hull For President.”

38

Volume 2A, Number 14 – 3 October 1938 – Front Page – “The Peacemakers” article and pictures of Chancellor Adolph Hitler of Germany and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain.

39

Volume 2A, Number 15 – 10 October 1938 – Front Page – “Do Workers Want A Red labor Deal?” With a photo of Vincente Toledano of Mexico, Leon Jouhaux of France, and John L. Lewis of C.I.O. United States.

40

Volume 2A, Number 16 – 17 October 1938 – Front Page – “His Masters’ Voice!”  A defense of the Munich Pact as the savior of world peace and an attack on Dr. Eduard Benes, President of Czechoslovakia.  Benes is portrayed as the tool of Joseph Stalin and Maxim Litvinov of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics.

41

Volume 2A, Number 17 – 24 October 1938 – Front Page – “Birthday Edition, Father Coughlin October 24, 1938.”

*

Volume 2A, Numbers 18-26 – 31 October-26 December 1938 are not part of the collection.

 

 

SERIES IV: 1939

*

Volume 3A and Volume 4A Numbers 1-19 – 2 January-6 November 1939 are not part of the collection.

42

Volume 4A, Number 20 – 13 November 1939 – Front Page – “Red Communism’s Rule in New York’s Colleges” and “Armistice Day, 1939.”

43

Volume 4A, Number 21 – 20 November 1939 – Front Page – “World Revolution Ordered By Stalin!”

44

Volume 4A, Number 22 – 27 November 1939 – Front Page – “Father Coughlin’s Message To Labor” and “Bowder Tell Public What Communists Are About To Do To U.S.”

45

Volume 4A, Number 23 – 4 December 1939 – Front Page – “Russian Ambassador Too Big To Be Purged: Oumansky Is Returned To Useful U.S. Post Despite His Failures.”

*

Volume 4A, Number 24 – 11 December 1939 is not part of the collection.

46

Volume 4A, Number 25 – 18 December 1939 – Front Page – “Modern War Is won In Advance By Agents” and “Mothers of America Seeking Law Against Foreign Conscription.”

47

Volume 4A, Number 26 – 25 December 1939 – Front Page – “How Roosevelt Can Be Third Term President.”

 

 

SERIES V: 1940

48

Volume 5A, Number 1 – 1 January 1940 – Headline – “Communism In C.I.O. – Labor’s 1940 Challenge: Must Halt Excesses of Red Leaders To Stem Reaction Tide.”

49

Volume 5A, Number 2 – 8 January 1940 – Headlines – “What Is Soviet Russia Aiming To Do In India?” and “Liberals’ of New Deal Approve LaGuardia As Presidential Candidate.”

50

Volume 5A, Number 3 – 15 January 1940 – Headline – “Alien [Harry] Bridges Seeks American Citizenship.”

51

Volume 5A, Number 4 – 22 January 1940 – Headline – “Administration Holds Key To Dictatorship: Labor Leader Warns Nation’s Workers On Perils of War Powers.”

52

Volume 5A, Number 5 – 29 January 1940 – Headline – “Christian Front Is No Foe Of U.S.”

53

Volume 5A, Number 6 – 5 February 1940 – Headline – “Who Are The Enemies Of Christianity In U.S.?” and “Senator Borah: His Life A Challenge To Statesmen of Today.”

54

Volume 5A, Number 7 – 12 February 1940 – Headlines – “U.S. Government Owns 117 Big Corporations” and “Coughlin Investigation Echo of Spivak Smear: No Sedition Plot Link.”

55

Volume 5A, Number 8 – 19 February 1940 – Headlines – “Catholic Bishops Urge Social Justice” and “Inquiry By F.B.I. Into ‘Red’ Jewish People’s Committee To Be Asked.”

56

Volume 5A, Number 9 – 26 February 1940 – Headlines – “U.S. Price Fixing Skips Farmer, City Worker” and “Youth Congress Reds, White House Guests, ‘Boo’ The President.”

57

Volume 5A, Number 10 – 4 March 1940 – Headline – “Is Mayor LaGuardia Hunting Christians?: Storm Over Quizzing of N.Y. Police Is Not Ended With Report.”

58

Volume 5A, Number 11 – 11 March 1940 – Headline – “G.O.P. 1940 Platform Challenges New Deal.”

59

Volume 5A, Number 12 – 18 March 1940 – Headline – “U.S. Neutrality Periled By Export-Import Bank: Founded to Finance Surplus Crop Export, Big Business Profits.”

*

Volume 5A, Number 13 – 25 March 1940 is not a part of the collection.

60

Volume 5A, Number 14 – 1 April 1940 – Headline – “Peace Efforts Fail, Total War Imminent” concerns the failed peace mission to Europe of U.S. Under-Secretary of State Sumner Wells.

61

Volume 5A, Number 15 – 8 April 1940 – Headline – “Plane Deal Endangers United States Peace: Expect sale of Planes To Accelerate Bombing of Industrial England.”

62

Volume 5A, Number 16 – 15 April 1940 – Headline – “Senate Seeks End To Diplomatic Dangers: Charges In White Book Provoke Suggestion On Abolition of Diplomats.”

*

Volume 5A, Numbers 17-26 – 22 April-24 June 1940 are not part of the collection.

*

Volume 6, Numbers 1-12 – 1 July-16 September 1940 are not part of the collection.

63

Volume 6, Number 13 – 23 September 1940 – Headlines – “Deny Radio Time To Fr. Coughlin” and “Toll in Total War Hits London, Berlin, Plant in New Jersey.”

64

Volume 6, Number 14 – 30 September 1940 – Headlines – “U.S. Joins Britain for War In Orient,” “Daladier Indicted by France: Is Omen for future of New Deal,” and “How Empire of Finance Replaced Great Britain.”

65

Volume 6, Number 15 – 7 October 1940 – Headlines – “’Inside Story’ Of Plan To Put U.S. In War,” “Churchill Blunder in Defeat at Dakar New Blow to Empire,” and “Senate Votes to Keep U.S. Bonds Tax-Exempt.”

66

Volume 6, Number 16 – 14 October 1940 – Headlines – “Nazi Blitzkrieg Turns English To Red Leaders,” “Law Permits sending Guard and Draftees to England, Africa,” and “Profits Tax Gets neither Revenue Nor Regulation.”

67

Volume 6, Number 17 – 21 October 1940 – Headlines – “Roosevelt’s War Aid Defies Congress, Voters,” “British Suppressing News Before Election; Want U.S. In Orient,” and “Peace Talks Forecast Outlines of New Europe.

68

Volume 6, Number 18 – 28 October 1940 – Headlines – “Republic Or Dictator? Next Week Will Tell,” “France Blames Jews for War; Bars Them from Press, Offices,” and “English Know U.S. Plans Better Than Congressmen.”

*

Volume 6, Number 19 – 4 November 1940 is not part of the collection.

69

Volume 6, Number 20 – 11 November 1940 – Headlines – “Our Next War Deal Due In The Pacific,” “A Plane To Ottawa, Secret Bomb Sights; ‘Behind the Scenes’,” and “If Constitution Goes, What Have We Left?”

70

Volume 6, Number 21 – 18 November 1940 – Headlines – “U.S. Leaders Plead For National Unity,” “Can We Keep War Out of America Now?” and “All of Europe Facing Winter of Starvation.”

71

Volume 6, Number 22 – 25 November 1940 – Headlines – “Hitler and Molotov Decide War Trend,” “Secret Money Power Behind Scene Forced British War Choice,” and “Let’s Now Get Down To National Defense.”

72

Volume 6, Number 23 – 2 December 1940 – Headlines – “C.I.O. Puts Hopes In New Leadership,” “Germany’s Financial Gains as Important as War Blitzkrieg,” and “National Guard Troops Cold-Storaged in Camp.”

73

Volume 6, Number 24 – 9 December 1940 – Headlines – “Neutrality Patrol Guarding Caribbean,” “Pall of Propaganda Issued to Conceal Plight of Britain,” and “Election Victory Paraders Mock Christian Religion.”

74

Volume 6, Number 25 – 16 December 1940 – Headlines – Probe Finds Reds In N.Y. Schools,” “White Shocks Press with Inside Story of Destroyer Deal,” and “Two Factions Vie For Control in Congress.”

75

Volume 6, Number 26 – 23 December 1940 – Headlines – “White Committee Probe Is Demanded,” “British and French Set Trap for Forces of Italy in Greece,” and “The ‘Inside’ Story of the Late Lord Lothian.”

76

Volume 6, Number 27 – 30 December 1940 – Headlines – “British Want U.S. Fleet In Far East,” “Have We the Ships to Spare From Forces for our Own Defense?” and “President’s Pledges of Peace and Aid Conflict.”

 

 

SERIES VI:  1941

77

Volume 7, Number 1 – 6 January 1941 – Headlines – “England Is Faced With Revolution,” “’No Foreign War’ Committee Formed to Work for Peace,” “Royal Group in Italy Plans Reorganization,” and “Hong Kong Magazine Praises Father Coughlin.”

*

Volume 7, Number 2 – 13 January 1941 is not part of the collection.

78

Volume 7, Number 3 – 20 January 1941 – Headlines – “Senate Investigation To Air War ‘Deals’,” “Will 77th Congress Surrender On Orders of federal Reserve?” “Won’t Permit President to Keep Peace Promise,” and “They Silenced Fr. Coughlin:  How About Kennedy?”

79

Volume 7, Number 4 – 27 January 1941 – Headlines – “New War Drive Due Soon On Two Fronts,” “Gibraltar, Suez and Singapore Target of Next Attack by Axis,” “Kennedy Radio Talk Lets Country Down,” and “Story of British Default Warns U.S. Now.”

80

Volume 7, Number 5 – 3 February 1941 – Headlines – “U.S. Aid To Nazis Through U.S.S.R.,” “Aid-to-Britain Is Screen for Moves to Regiment America,” and “Loan Refused to Lift Depression in Cuba.”

81

Volume 7, Number 6 – 10 February 1941 – Headlines – “Peace Now Demand Of Sassoon Group,” “Capitalists Fear revolt of English More Than Nazis,” and “Is There Any Future for U.S. Political Parties?”

82

Volume 7, Number 7 – 17 February 1941 – Headlines  – “American Mothers To March On Washington,” “British Communists glad of a Chance to Flee Soviet Russia,” and “2,000 in N.Y. Cheer Christian Front Boys.”

83

Volume 7, Number 8 – 24 February 1941 – Headlines – “How Aliens Control Defense Materials,” “State Socialism in England forecast of Confiscation in U.S.,” and “Mystery Death Silences Another Critic of Stalin.”

84

Volume 7, Number 9 – 3 March 1941 – Headlines – “Finance Co-Operates While Peoples Fight,” “British-Nazi Trade Pact, Aimed At U.S., Postponed by War,” and “Cost-of-Production Plan Finds Favor in Capital.”

85

Volume 7, Number 10 – 10 March 1941 – Headlines – “Senate Patriots Fight War Bill,” “Communism Is Real Fifth Column Peril: Nobody Speaks Out,” and “Mexico Goes ‘New Deal’; Gets Chance to Be Like Us.”

86

Volume 7, Number 11 – 17 March 1941 – Headlines  – “Red Strikes Tie Up 25 Defense Plants,” “Do Jews In U.S. Want Christians to Abandon Lent?” and “Sweden is Next in Path of Conquest by U.S.S.R.”

87

Volume 7, Number 12 – 24 March 1941 – Headlines – “U.S.A. Apologizes To Russian Soviet!” “Seek Navy Convoys As Next Move in All Aid to Britain,” and “DeValera and Aids Tell Struggle of the Irish.”

88

Volume 7, Number 13 – 31 March 1941 – Headline – “Social Justice Banned By Army.”

89

Volume 7, Number 14 – 7 April 1941 – Headlines – “International Finance governs Great Britain,” “U.S.A. vs. C.I.O. – Strikers Prepare Reds ‘Revolution’,” and “Catholic Extremists or Christian Compromisers.”

90

Volume 7, Number 15 – 14 April 1941 – Headlines – “Government May Take Over Plants,” “Hitler Calls Ship Grab ‘Gangsterism’; Eludes War Bait,” and “Discuss Economic Parity Between Canada and U.S.”

91

Volume 7, Number 16 – 21 April 1941 – Headlines – “Knox Wants To Hide War News From People,” “75 Congressmen in Fight to Keep U.S. From Britain’s War,” and “Lillian Gish Tells How Hollywood Creates Hate.”

92

Volume 7, Number 17 – 28 April 1941 – Headlines – “Administration Puts U.S. ‘In The Middle’,” “Msgr. Ryan Writes a Letter; Implies Fr. Coughlin Is ‘Faker’,” and “Monopoly Committee Hits Concentration of Wealth.”

93

Volume 7, Number 18 – 5 May 1941 – Headlines – “Hull, Knox Point Way Toward War And Chaos,” “Soviet Doublecross May Put U.S. Into Asiatic Conflict,” and “Lindberg Assails War Mongers at Peace Rally.”

94

Volume 7, Number 19 – 12 May 1941 – Headlines – “British Invasion of United States!” “Wily Turkey Plays a ‘Waiting Game’ – Holds Key to Suez,” and “Radio Forecast Hit It: M-Day [Mobilization-Day] Is already Here!”

95

Volume 7, Number 20 – 19 May 1941 – Headlines – “Navy Convoys Mean Shooting And War!” “Soviet Russia to Get Empire in East as German Partner,” and “Reds Now Work Behind the Pro-War committees.”

96

Volume 7, Number 21 – 26 May 1941 – Headlines – “France And Spain To Join The Axis,” “Hess peace flight Defers F.D.R. Talk; Halts Convoy Deal,” and “U.A.W.-C.I.O. Wins Wage Raise at G.M.”

97

Volume 7, Number 22 – 2 June 1941 – Headlines  – “Europe talks Peace, Terms Include Union,” “Gold Backers Seek To Get America In If England Falls,” and “C.I.O. Victory at Ford’s Sets Pace for New Drives.”

98

Volume 7, Number 23 – 9 June 1941 – Headlines – “F.D.R. Proclaims ‘Full Emergency’,” “Revolt In Desert Shifts War Zone To the Near East,” and “Fr. Coughlin Told You: What Did You Expect?”

99

Volume 7, Number 24 – 16 June 1941 – Headlines – “C.I.O. Threatens General Strike,” “Dies Warns of How Reds in government Plot to ‘Take Over’,” and “President Declares War; Seizes Private Property.”

100

Volume 7, Number 25 – 23 June 1941 – Headlines – “Low Wages Aid reds To Stir Up Strikes,” “American Diplomacy – Coddle Stalin, But Fight ‘Aggressors’,” and “America’s New Army Is Obsolete, Says Expert.”

101

Volume 7, Number 26 – 30 June 1941 – Headlines – “Father Coughlin Jubilee edition,” “Russo-German Clash Shatters Britain’s ‘Holy War’ Slogan,” and “C.I.O. Agreement With Ford Ushers in New Era.”

102

Volume 8, Number 1 – 7 July 1941 – Headlines – “Christians Will Not Support New Red Deal.”

103

Volume 8, Number 2 – 14 July 1941 – Headlines  – “An Answer To Bishop Hurley,” “New Deal Internationalism ‘Through’ If Soviet Falls,” and “America Can Avert Threatened Chaos By Legal ‘Purge’.”

104

Volume 8, Number 3 – 21 July 1941 – Headlines – “Britain Wants U.S. Expeditionary Force,” “Allied Strategists Planning Military Invasion of Europe,” and “Christianity Under a ‘Controlled’ Democracy.”

*

Volume 8, Number 4 – 28 July 1941 is not part of the collection.

105

Volume 8, Number 5 – 4 August 1941 – Headlines – “U.S. Takes Lead For War Against Japan,” “C.I.O. Goon Squads, Bases in Ireland, All in 1933 Novel!” and “Halifax helped to Make Versailles Terms Harsh.”

106

Volume 8, Number 6 – 11 August 1941 – Headlines – “Ask U.S. Probe Of Movies And Radio,” “Secy. Stimson Offers Apology to Wheeler; After ‘Smear’ What?” and “Stalin Puts Red Spies Back in Soviet Army.”

*

Volume 8, Numbers 7-9 – 18 August-1 September 1941 are not part of the collection.

107

Volume 8, Number 10 – 8 September 1941 – Headlines – “U.S. Aviation Curbed To Help Foreign Lines,” “Plenty of Tin Ore Found in America, Trusts Prevent Use,” and “Not All Europeans Want Our Kind of ‘Liberation’.”

108

Volume 8, Number 11 – 15 September 1941 – Headlines – “Are Nazis Losing? – Wishes Vs. Facts,” “New Deal Exempts Corporation Taxes – Little Man Pays!” and “Irish Terror Testifies To Britain’s Hypocrisy.”

109

Volume 8, Number 12 – 22 September 1941 – Headlines – “U.S. War Makers Invite An Incident,” “Civilian Pilots to Deliver Bombers via Ocean Ferry,” and “Read: ‘Death at Dakar’ – Key Port to Africa.”

110

Volume 8, Number 13 – 29 September 1941 – Headlines – “Fewer Jobs In Sight: Bigger Taxes For All,” “British in Iran Fear Double-cross From Red Allies,” and “Is Lindbergh a Liar? Critics Do Not Say So.”

111

Volume 8, Number 14 – 6 October 1941 – Headlines – “Poverty In U.S.A. Price of War Aid,” “Imprisoned English Held Without Trial in ‘Island Paradise’,” and “People Are Masters, President Is Servant.”

112

Volume 8, Number 15 – 13 October 1941 – Headlines – “Loyalty To Nation Ahead of President,” “Roosevelt Wrong About Religion in Soviet Russia,” and “Bishop Hurley and the Brooklyn-Royal Oak Axis.”

113

Volume 8, Number 16 – 20 October 1941 – Headlines – “Fall Of Reds Leaves New Deal Stranded,” “European Invasion, Not U.S. Defense, Is Real War Plan,” and “Housing Project Fruit of Coughlin Broadcast.”

114

Volume 8, Number 17 – 27 October 1941 – Headlines – “10-Million Boys for Foreign War!” “British Hit, Run; Nazi Subs Attack U.S. Destroyers,” and “Iowa Petitions Demand Lease-Lend for Farmers.”

115

Volume 8, Number 18 – 3 November 1941 – Headlines – “Will Labor Reds Take Over U.S.A.?” “Invasion of Europe Off If Soviet Falls, ‘Allies’ Now Admit,” and “Christianity in U.S. More Vital Than War.”

116

Volume 8, Number 19 – 10 November 1941 – Headlines – “Peace By Spring Is Forecast Now,” “New Deal War Aim to Take Over Empire, Not to Help Britain,” and “Lease-Lend Billions Total Loss to U.S.A.”

117

Volume 8, Number 20 – 17 November 1941 – Headlines – “Invasion of Italy To Offer New Front,” “Mon on the Street To Pay $5 a Week for War Tax Bill,” and “Christian Leaders Split Over All-Aid-to-Russia.”

118

Volume 8, Number 21 – 24 November 1941 – Headlines – “American Labor, Stand By Lewis!” “Britain and U.S.A. Want Finland for a New Battle Front,” and “What Is Ahead of Us? – Not Social Justice.”

119

Volume 8, Number 22 – 1 December 1941 – Headlines – “America Against Aid To U.S.S.R.!” “Speaking of Maps, How About Stalin’s? That’s Secret, Too!” and “C.I.O. Convention Backs both Lewis and F.D.R.”

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Volume 8, Number 23 – 8 December 1941 is not part of the collection.

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Volume 8, Number 24 – 15 December 1941 – Headlines  – “It’s All-Out War; May Last 8 Years,” “10-Million Army, 5-Million A.E.F. Revealed as Plan,” and “Germany Lays Plans For Winter War in Africa.”

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Volume 8, Number 25 – 22 December 1941 – Headlines – “Let’s Conscript All War Profits,” “Victory or Politics? F.D.R. Must Decide, Oust Knox from Navy,” and “Capitalism to be on The Spot After War.”

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Volume 8, Number 26 – 29 December 1941 – Headlines – “New Year Brings New Era – New Hope,” “Government Aware of Jap Attack Plan – Senator Tydings,” and “Marxian Influence Grows With British-Soviet Tie.”

 

 

SERIES VII: 1942

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Volume 9, Number 1 – 5 January 1942 – Headlines – “Read: We Can Win,” “Churchill’s Visit, ‘Second Chapter’ of Atlantic Charter,” and “The Birth of a Bond, Fr. Coughlin Broadcast.”

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Volume 9, Number 2 – 12 January 1942 – Headlines – “Reds Using War To Promote Communism,” “America’s Duty to Her Fighting Men – Conscript Profits,” and “Congress Gives Birth to ‘Statocracy’ Government.”

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Volume 9, Number 3 – 19 January 1942 – Headlines  – “’God Versus Hitler’ – Roosevelt’s Issue,” “Victory Imperiled by Muddling New Deal War Program,” and “Three-Million ‘Slaves’ Labor in Free America.”

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Volume 9, Number 4 – 26 January 1942 – Headlines – “British Rubber Racket Exposed,” “Jews Seek Funds to Build Separate International Army,” and “War Policies Endanger Free American System.”

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Volume 9, Number “4” [5] – 2 February 1942 – Headlines  – “Yellow-White Race War May Be Next,” “F.D.R. Whitewash Seen in Report of Truman Committee,” and “Dissension Threatens British Fighting Forces.”

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Volume 9, Number 6 – 9 February 1942 is not part of the collection.

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Volume 9, Number 7 – 16 February 1942 – Headlines – “Congress Asked To Investigate ‘Union Now’ Plot” and “O.C.D. [Office of Civilian Defense] Promotes Birth Control.”

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Volume 9, Number 8 – 23 February 1942 – Headlines – “We Nominate MacArthur For Supreme Command,” and “Churchill Flop Paves Way for Pro-Communist Stafford Cripps.

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Volume 9, Numbers 9-18 – 2 March-4 May 1942 are not part of the collection. Publication of Social Justice ended on 4 May 1942.

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END OF THE COLLECTION

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A Series of Lectures on Social Justice: as broadcast by Rev. Charles E. Coughlin over a National Network.  Published by The Radio League of the Little Flower, Royal Oak, Michigan.  March 1935.

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A Series of Lectures on Social Justice: Broadcast by Rev. Charles E. Coughlin over a National Network.  Published by The Radio League of the Little Flower. 1936.

 

 

ISSUES MISSING FROM THE COLLECTION

 

Volume 1, Numbers 1-14 – From the first issue to 15 June 1936 are not part of the collection.

 

Volume 1, Numbers 16 & 17 – 29 June and 6 July 1936 are not part of the collection.

 

Volume 2, Numbers 5 & 6 – 24 and 31 August 1936 are not part of the collection

 

Volume 2, Number 9 – 21 September 1936 is not part of the collection.

 

Volume 2, Number 11 – 5 October 1936 is not part of the collection.

 

Volume 2, Number 13-23, 19 October-28 December 1936 are not part of the collection.

 

All of Volume 3 and Volume 4 Numbers 1-15 – 4 January-29 November 1937 are not part of the collection.

 

Volume 5, Numbers 4-9 – 24 January-28February 1938 are not in the collection.

 

Volume 1A, Numbers 1-10 – 2 March-4 May 1938 are not in the collection.

 

Volume 2A, Numbers 18-26 – 31 October-26 December 1938 are not part of the collection.

 

Volume 3A and Volume 4A Numbers 1-19 – 2 January-6 November 1939 are not part of the collection.

 

Volume 4A, Number 24 – 11 December 1939 is not part of the collection.

Volume 5A, Number 13 – 25 March 1940 is not a part of the collection.

 

Volume 5A, Numbers 17-26 – 22 April-24 June 1940 are not part of the collection.

 

Volume 6, Numbers 1-12 – 1 July-16 September 1940 are not part of the collection.

 

Volume 6, Number 19 – 4 November 1940 is not part of the collection.

 

Volume 7, Number 2 – 13 January 1941 is not part of the collection.

 

Volume 8, Number 4 – 28 July 1941 is not part of the collection.

 

Volume 8, Numbers 7-9 – 18 August-1 September 1941 are not part of the collection.

 

Volume 8, Number 23 – 8 December 1941 is not part of the collection.

 

Volume 9, Number 6 – 9 February 1942 is not part of the collection.

 

Volume 9, Number 9 – 2 March 1942 and issues following are not part of the collection.