THIRD PARTIES: Chevrolet Campaign

Among all the third-party candidates destined to be defeated and forgotten in next week's Presidential election, Socialist Laborite John W. Aiken of Chelsea, Mass. has the distinction of expecting the fewest votes from the U. S. electorate. Though it claims to be the oldest established radical party in the land and has had a ticket in every Presidential campaign since 1892, the Socialist Labor party polled only 33,276 votes in 1932.

Son of a shoemaker, John Aiken left school at 14 to enter a furniture factory. Today, at 40, he is an expert...

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