Critics of the New Deal

1. Liberty League = Financiers, industrialists, corporation lawyers, conservative        Democrats

Liberty League

Attacked the New Deal as a dangerous departure and actively opposed measures like the national Labor Relations.

American Socialist Movement

Grows to about 10,000 members

Dr. Francis Townsend

1.        – Old Age Revolving Pension Plan2. $200 per month to people over 603. Must be spent within the month

Rev. Charles Coughlin

the National Union For Social Justice

NEW Deal didn’t go Far Enough

Radio ProgrammingAnti-Semitic & Pro-Fascist

Senator Huey P. Long

1.        Share our Wealth Movement = Everyman a KingGuarantee every family an annual income of $2,000.

And the Kingfisher promised

and a homestead or $6000 to build a home, radio

To pay for this,

the govt. would nationalize all banks, and allow no one to be over a “ten millionaire”