Advertisement for the California League Against Sinclairism, formed by business groups when Upton Sinclair ran for the governorship of California. It was an ugly, emotional, red-baiting campaign, aimed at voters at the depth of the Depression. This is an excellent example of political advertisements that appeared before the 1934 general election.

A Challenge to Action!
A Call to Arms!!
In Defense of

C a l i f o r n i a !

Sinclairism – the program of Upton Sinclair and his radical associates – is Communism, cleverly disguised, but deliberately designed to Russianize California state government.

Its rooted in class hatred, fostered and fomented by radicals who boast of their hatred of American ideals and American principles of government.

IF IT IS SUCCESSFUL, IT WILL DESTROY CALIFORNIA'S BUSINESS STRUCTURE, BANKRUPT OUR FAMILIES, OVERTHROW OUR ORGANIZED LABOR, CONFISCATE OUR HOMES, WRECK OUR INDUSTRIES, AND ROB OUR EMPLOYED WORKERS OF THEIR EMPLOYMENT.

Your personal security is at issue – the welfare of your home and family; your American citizenship, your rights of self-rule and freedom of worship – your job and your independence.