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End Poverty in California (EPIC) was a political campaign started in 1934 by socialist writer Upton Sinclair (best known as author of The Jungle). The movement formed the basis for Sinclair's campaign for Governor of California in 1934. The plan called for a massive public works program, sweeping tax reform, and guaranteed pensions.
Interest in what Sinclair was soon calling his "EPIC Plan" was immediate. Within a few months he had a campaign organization and a weekly newspaper, Upton Sinclair's EPIC News, and a growing network of EPIC clubs around the state. By mid 1934 there were more than 800 Clubs and Sinclair was headed into the August primary election as a clear ...
EPIC was part of this explosion. It started as a lark, one of a limitless number of schemes and projects tested over the years by America's best known, if not always most respected, radical. Upton Sinclair was about to turn fifty-five years old in the summer of 1933 when the idea of EPIC began to take shape in his mind.
An EPIC platform. Sinclair’s platform was known as EPIC: End Poverty in California. ... his victory and his triumphant execution of the EPIC program,” Singer writes. His plan featured sweeping ...
Jan 22, 2016 · PREFACE. The purpose of this pamphlet is to discuss those steps of the Plan to End Poverty in California (EPIC) which have to be taken FIRST. The EPIC Plan was prepared in August, 1933. There was neither time nor money for research work, so many of the propositions were stated in general terms. In the thirteen months which have since elapsed ...
From Upton Sinclair, Immediate Epic: The Final Statement of the Plan (Los Angeles: End Poverty League, 1934). [Socialist author Sinclair won the Democratic nomination for governor of California in August 1934. He based his campaign on the "End Poverty in California" plan but lost by about 260,000 votes to a Republican campaign that labeled him ...
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Oct 11, 2012 · Sinclair’s EPIC plan called for the state to turn over land and factories to the unemployed, creating cooperatives that promoted “production for use, not for profit” and bartered goods and ...
