I spotted this copy of an American Labor Party political flyer from days gone by on a Canadian blog:
Congressman Marcantonio was first elected as a Republican in 1934 from Harlem. He lost the next election, then switched to the American Labor party and won six more terms. He ran for mayor of NYC in 1949, lost, and in 1952 the Dims, Repugnants and Libs backed a single candidate to beat him and succeeded in voting him out. The American Labor Party, lacking any representation in Congress died shortly after Vito (d. 1954).
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