Gerald L. K. Smith, Unamerican, Union-Smashing, New-Deal Hater, Outcast of the Lunatic Fringe of "Isms" is in Flint to Smash the Auto Union

n.p.: n.p.. First Printing. Broadside / Poster. Poster, issued when Gerald L K Smith came to Flint, Michiganm, to speak out against the auto workers union, illustrated with a drawing of the "Four Birds with a Single Song," "We disrupt the CIO, the CIO must go, you know." Smith was a preacher and shared Father Coughin's fondness for anti-Semitism For a short tiime (c. 1929), he became an organizer for Huey P. Long. Long's followers joined Coughlin and Francis Townsend in forming the Union Party (1936) whose presidential candidate for 1936 was William Lemke. [Elsewhere, we also offer two pieces of sheet music from the Lemke campaign, one authored by Dave Peyton, long-time music critic of the Chicago Defender.] Very good with light soiling and old folds. A rare piece of regional ephemera. ; 9 x 16½"; 1 pp . (Inventory #: 31452)