The Washington Commonwealth Federation was a political pressure group established in the American state of Washington in 1934 as "Commonwealth Builders, Incorporated". The organization changed its nam
The front page of the Washington New Dealer, the WCF's official newspaper, after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
The argument in favor of a production for use ballot initiative put forward by the WCF, 1936
Hugh DeLacy, President of the WCF in the late 1930s, was elected to Congress in 1944.
Washington State Democratic Party standard-bearers, 1934. (L-R): Marion Zioncheck, Lewis Schwellenbach, Warren Magnuson.
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End Poverty in California was a political campaign started in 1934 by socialist writer Upton Sinclair. The movement formed the basis for Sinclair's campaign for governor of California in 1934. The pla
Washington Commonwealth Federation
…in its own name but rather functioned as an organized faction in the Washington State Democratic Party. Originating out of an interest to expand the End Poverty in California movement to Washington state as a means of alleviating the misery of the Great Depression, the WCF came to be dominated by the Communist Party USA beginning in…
The EPIC Plan, published in The Lie Factory Starts, 1934
Front page of EPIC News following Sinclair's primary victory, August 29, 1934
Sinclair on the cover of Time magazine, October 22, 1934
Democratic headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles during the campaign, October 1934