Critics of the New Deal

1. Critics of the New Deal • 1. Liberty League = Financiers, industrialists, corporation lawyers, conservative Democrats

2. Liberty League Attacked the New Deal as a dangerous departure and actively opposedmeasures like the national Labor Relations.

3. American Socialist Movement • Grows to about 10,000 members

4. Dr. Francis Townsend • 1.– Old Age Revolving Pension Plan • 2. $200 per month to people over 60 • 3. Must be spent within the month

5. Rev. Charles Coughlin • the National Union For Social Justice • NEW Deal didn’t go Far Enough • Radio Programming • Anti-Semitic & Pro-Fascist

6. Senator Huey P. Long • 1.Share our Wealth Movement = Everyman a King • Guarantee every family an annual income of $2,000.

7. And the Kingfisher promised • and a homestead or $6000 to build a home, radio

8. To pay for this, • the govt. would nationalize all banks, and allow no one to be over a “ten millionaire”