Abstract

Cleveland's City Manager Survives

Cleveland's industries, heavy, light, medium, metal and textile are amazingly diversified and so is its population. Its more than a million people are in the main the second and third generation of good immigrant stock, much of it from the now dismembered empires of Central Europe. All the political experiments in Cleveland are more or less based on the ideologies of Tom L. Johnson, Cleveland's famous mayor twenty years ago. It is opined that no one can understand the incurable penchant for progress in this city without going back to the opening decade of this century when Tom Johnson-- ardent single taxer, advocate of public ownership, uncompromising foe of "predatory privilege"-- was creating a new kind of political atmosphere for an American city. Something of his influence still persists.