Benjamin Gitlow, the Glossary

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1. 81 relations: American Civil Liberties Union, American Legion, Anti-communism, Autobiography, Billy James Hargis, Blacklisting, Bridgman, Michigan, C. E. Ruthenberg, Chicago, Communist International, Communist Labor Party of America, Communist Party USA, Conservatism, Coram nobis, Criminal anarchy, Crompond, New York, Department store, Detroit, E. P. Dutton, Elizabeth, New Jersey, Fieldites, Fundamentalism, Gitlow v. New York, Gitlowites, Governor of New York, Hoover Institution, House Un-American Activities Committee, Jay Lovestone, Jews, John Reed (journalist), Joint Committee Against Communism, Joseph Stalin, Joseph Zack Kornfeder, Journalist, Left Wing Manifesto, Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party, Louis C. Fraina, Lovestoneites, Martin Dies Jr., Max Shachtman, Maximilian Cohen, McCarthyism, Morgen Freiheit, Mosinee, Wisconsin, New Jersey, New York (state), New York City, New York State Assembly, Newark, New Jersey, Nikolai Bukharin, ... Expand index (31 more) »

2. 1924 United States vice-presidential candidates
3. 1928 United States vice-presidential candidates
4. Communist Party USA politicians
5. Inmates of Sing Sing
6. Retail Clerks International Union leaders
7. Retail clerks
8. Right Opposition

American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit human rights organization founded in 1920.

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American Legion

The American Legion, commonly known as the Legion, is an organization of U.S. war veterans headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Anti-communism

Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals.

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Autobiography

An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life.

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Billy James Hargis

Billy James Hargis (August 3, 1925 – November 27, 2004) was an American Christian evangelist.

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Blacklisting

Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority compiling a blacklist of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as being deemed unacceptable to those making the list; if people are on a blacklist, then they are considered to have done something wrong, or they are considered to be untrustworthy.

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Bridgman, Michigan

Bridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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C. E. Ruthenberg

Charles Emil Ruthenberg (July 9, 1882 – March 1, 1927) was an American Marxist politician who was the founder and first head of the American Communist Party (CPUSA). Benjamin Gitlow and C. E. Ruthenberg are communist Party USA politicians.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Communist International

The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was an international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism, and which was led and controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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Communist Labor Party of America

The Communist Labor Party of America (CLPA) was one of the organizational predecessors of the Communist Party USA.

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Communist Party USA

The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.

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Conservatism

Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values.

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Coram nobis

A writ of coram nobis (also writ of error coram nobis, writ of coram vobis, or writ of error coram vobis) is a legal order allowing a court to correct its original judgment upon discovery of a fundamental error that did not appear in the records of the original judgment's proceedings and that would have prevented the judgment from being pronounced.

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Criminal anarchy

In the United States, criminal anarchy is the crime of conspiracy to overthrow the government by force or violence, or by assassination of the executive head or of any of the executive officials of government, or by any unlawful means.

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Crompond, New York

Crompond is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located in the town of Yorktown in Westchester County, New York, United States.

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Department store

A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area ("department") specializing in a product category.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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E. P. Dutton

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Elizabeth, New Jersey

Elizabeth is a city in and the county seat of Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Fieldites

The Fieldites were a small leftist sect that split from the Communist League of America in 1934 and known officially as the Organization Committee for a Revolutionary Workers Party and then the League for a Revolutionary Workers Party.

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Fundamentalism

Fundamentalism is a tendency among certain groups and individuals that is characterized by the application of a strict literal interpretation to scriptures, dogmas, or ideologies, along with a strong belief in the importance of distinguishing one's ingroup and outgroup, which leads to an emphasis on some conception of "purity", and a desire to return to a previous ideal from which advocates believe members have strayed.

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Gitlow v. New York

Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court holding that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution had extended the First Amendment's provisions protecting freedom of speech and freedom of the press to apply to the governments of U.S.

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Gitlowites

The Workers Communist League or Gitlowites were a Right Opposition Communist group that split from the main group of the American Right Opposition, the Communist Party of the USA (Opposition) in 1933. Benjamin Gitlow and Gitlowites are right Opposition.

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Governor of New York

The governor of New York is the head of government of the U.S. state of New York.

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Hoover Institution

The Hoover Institution (officially The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace) is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government.

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House Un-American Activities Committee

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties.

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Jay Lovestone

Jay Lovestone (15 December 1897 – 7 March 1990) was an American activist. Benjamin Gitlow and Jay Lovestone are communist Party USA politicians, former Marxists, right Opposition and socialist Party of America politicians from New York (state).

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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John Reed (journalist)

John Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist.

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Joint Committee Against Communism

The Joint Committee Against Communism, also known as the Joint Committee Against Communism in New York, was an anti-communist organization during the 1950s.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

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Joseph Zack Kornfeder

Joseph Zack Kornfeder (1898–1963), sometimes surnamed "Kornfedder" in the press, was an Austro-Hungarian-born American who was a founding member and top leader of the Communist Party of America in 1919, Communist Party USA leader, and Comintern representative to South America (1930–1931) before quitting the Party in 1934.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public.

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Left Wing Manifesto

The Left Wing Manifesto is the name bestowed upon two distinct programmatic documents of the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party during the factional war in the Socialist Party of America of 1919.

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The Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party was an organized faction within the Socialist Party of America in 1919 which served as the core of the dual communist parties which emerged in the fall of that year—the Communist Party of America and the Communist Labor Party of America.

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Louis C. Fraina

Louis C. Fraina (October 7, 1892 – September 15, 1953) was a founding member of the Communist Party USA in 1919.

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Lovestoneites

The Lovestoneites, led by former General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) Jay Lovestone, were a small American oppositionist communist movement of the 1930s. Benjamin Gitlow and Lovestoneites are right Opposition.

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Martin Dies Jr.

Martin Dies Jr. (November 5, 1900 – November 14, 1972), also known as Martin Dies Sr., was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. Benjamin Gitlow and Martin Dies Jr. are American anti-communists.

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Max Shachtman

Max Shachtman (September 10, 1904 – November 4, 1972) was an American Marxist theorist.

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Maximilian Cohen

Maximilian "Max" Cohen was an American socialist politician of the early 20th century.

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McCarthyism

McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.

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Morgen Freiheit

Morgen Freiheit (original title: מאָרגן־פרײהײט; English: Morning Freedom) was a New York City-based daily Yiddish language newspaper affiliated with the Communist Party, USA, founded by Moissaye Olgin in 1922.

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Mosinee, Wisconsin

Mosinee is a city in Marathon County, Wisconsin.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York State Assembly

The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house.

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Newark, New Jersey

Newark is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, the county seat of Essex County, and a principal city of the New York metropolitan area.

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Nikolai Bukharin

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (p; – 15 March 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and Marxist theorist. Benjamin Gitlow and Nikolai Bukharin are right Opposition.

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Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League

The Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights (originally the American League for the Defense of Jewish Rights) was an American anti-Nazi and anti-fascist organization founded in 1933 by Samuel Untermyer to promote an economic boycott against Nazi Germany.

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Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto (Spanish for) is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.

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Piece work

Piece work or piecework is any type of employment in which a worker is paid a fixed piece rate for each unit produced or action performed, regardless of time.

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Politician

A politician is a person who has political power in the government of a state, a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government.

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Potboiler

A potboiler or pot-boiler is a novel, play, opera, film, or other creative work of dubious literary or artistic merit, whose main purpose was to pay for the creator's daily expenses—thus the imagery of "boil the pot", which means "to provide one's livelihood." Authors who create potboiler novels or screenplays are sometimes called hack writers or hacks.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Retail clerk

A retail clerk, also known as a sales clerk, shop clerk, retail associate, or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) shop assistant, sales assistant or customer service assistant, is a service role in a retail business. Benjamin Gitlow and retail clerk are retail clerks.

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Retail Clerks International Union

The Retail Clerks International Union (RCIU) was a North American labor union that represented retail employees. Benjamin Gitlow and retail Clerks International Union are retail clerks.

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Revolutionary socialism is a political philosophy, doctrine, and tradition within socialism that stresses the idea that a social revolution is necessary to bring about structural changes in society.

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Robert Minor

Robert Berkeley "Bob" Minor (15 July 1884 – 26 January 1952), alternatively known as "Fighting Bob", was a political cartoonist, a radical journalist, and, beginning in 1920, a leading member of the Communist Party USA.

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Robert S. Mullen

Robert Stephen Mullen (October 1, 1884 – September 23, 1959) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Benjamin Gitlow and Robert S. Mullen are politicians from the Bronx.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Sensationalism

In journalism and mass media, sensationalism is a type of editorial tactic.

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Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment is a type of harassment involving the use of explicit or implicit sexual overtones, including the unwelcome and inappropriate promises of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.

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Sing Sing

Sing Sing Correctional Facility, formerly Ossining Correctional Facility, is a maximum-security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, New York, United States.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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The Socialist Party of America (SPA) was a socialist political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America who had split from the main organization in 1899.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Superior, Wisconsin

Superior (Gete-oodenaang) is a city in, and the county seat of, Douglas County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States.

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University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte, or simply Charlotte) is a public research university in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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War correspondent

A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories first-hand from a war zone.

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Will Herberg

William Herberg (June 30, 1901 – March 26, 1977) was an American writer, intellectual, and scholar. Benjamin Gitlow and Will Herberg are right Opposition.

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William Z. Foster

William Z. Foster (February 25, 1881 – September 1, 1961) was a radical American labor organizer and Communist politician, whose career included serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1945 to 1957. Benjamin Gitlow and William Z. Foster are communist Party USA politicians.

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Workers Party of America

The Workers Party of America (WPA) was the name of the legal party organization used by the Communist Party USA from the last days of 1921 until the middle of 1929.

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Yiddish

Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish,,; ייִדיש-טײַטש, historically also Yidish-Taytsh) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.

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141st New York State Legislature

The 141st New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 2 to April 13, 1918, during the fourth year of Charles S. Whitman's governorship, in Albany.

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1922 Bridgman Convention

The 1922 Bridgman Convention was a secret conclave of the underground Communist Party of America (CPA) held in August 1922 near the small town of Bridgman, Michigan, about outside of the city of Chicago on the banks of Lake Michigan.

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1926 New York state election

The 1926 New York state election was held on November 2, 1926, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the state comptroller, the attorney general, a U.S. Senator, the chief judge and an associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.

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See also

1924 United States vice-presidential candidates

• Alben W. Barkley
• Benjamin Gitlow
• Burton K. Wheeler
• Charles G. Dawes
• Charles Hiram Randall
• Charles W. Bryan
• Lena Springs
• Marie C. Brehm

1928 United States vice-presidential candidates

• Benjamin Gitlow
• Charles Curtis
• James A. Edgerton
• James H. Maurer
• Jeremiah D. Crowley
• Joseph T. Robinson

Communist Party USA politicians

• Abraham Markoff
• Abram Jakira
• Albert Blumberg
• Alfred Wagenknecht
• Angela Davis
• August Henkel
• B. D. Amis
• Benjamin Gitlow
• Bernard Ades
• C. E. Ruthenberg
• Caleb Harrison
• Charlene Mitchell
• Charles Dirba
• Charles E. Taylor (politician)
• Earl Browder
• Ella Reeve Bloor
• Erwin Marquit
• Eugene Dennis
• Gil Green (communist)
• Gus Hall
• Isaac Edward Ferguson
• James P. Cannon
• James W. Ford
• Jarvis Tyner
• Jay Lovestone
• Joe Sims (politician)
• John Bachtell
• John Bernard (American politician)
• John J. Ballam
• Karl Emil Nygard
• L. E. Katterfeld
• Louis Shapiro (communist)
• Manning Johnson
• Paul Novick
• Peter Cacchione
• Roy Hudson
• Sam Webb (communist)
• Wahsayah Whitebird
• William Albertson
• William Schneiderman
• William Weinstone
• William Z. Foster

Inmates of Sing Sing

• Albert Fish
• Albert T. Patrick
• Benjamin Gitlow
• Carl Panzram
• Charles Becker
• Charles Chapin
• Ellwood M. Rabenold
• Ferdinand Ward
• Frank Abbandando
• Fritz Julius Kuhn
• George Appo
• George C. Parker
• Harry Strauss
• James Larkin
• Joseph J. Cahill
• Joseph Valachi
• Lamor Whitehead
• Lepke Buchalter
• Lucky Luciano
• Maria Barbella
• Martin Goldstein
• Mary Frances Creighton
• Max Lynar Louden
• Miguel Piñero
• Monk Eastman
• Monroe Edwards
• Paul Geidel
• Peter Sewally
• Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck
• Red Rocks Farrell
• Richard Whitney (financier)
• Tony Sirico
• William Willett Jr.

Retail Clerks International Union leaders

• Benjamin Gitlow
• Clifford R. Evans
• James Housewright
• James Suffridge
• Max Morris (unionist)
• William H. Wynn

Retail clerks

• Benjamin Gitlow
• Betty Halbreich
• Black Dahlia
• Bruce Boston
• Jerry on the Job
• Leura Collins
• Moses Appaqaq
• Pat Nixon
• Peter Fagg
• Retail Clerks International Union
• Retail clerk
• UFCW Local 1776

Right Opposition

• Alex Bail
• Alexei Rykov
• Alsatian Workers and Peasants Party
• Andreu Nin
• Archeio-Marxism
• August Thalheimer
• Benjamin Gitlow
• Benjamin Mandel
• Bertram Wolfe
• Charles S. Zimmerman
• Communist Party Opposition (Switzerland)
• Communist Party of Germany (Opposition)
• Die Neue Welt
• Gitlowites
• Heinrich Brandler
• International Revolutionary Marxist Centre
• Jack MacDonald (communist)
• Jay Lovestone
• Joaquín Maurín
• Kalmen Kaplansky
• Left Group of Finnish Workers
• Lovestoneites
• M. N. Roy
• Martemyan Ryutin
• Marxist Workers Bloc of Mexico
• Mikhail Tomsky
• Moscow trials
• Mot Dag
• Nikolai Bukharin
• Nikolai Uglanov
• POUM
• Right Opposition
• Socialist Party (Sweden, 1929)
• Vladimir Tolmachyov (politician)
• Will Herberg
• William Moriarty
• Women in Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista
• Workers and Peasants Party (France)
• Workers and Peasants' Bloc
• Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party
• Young Communist League of Germany (Opposition)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Gitlow

Also known as Ben Gitlow, Gitlow, Benjamin.

, Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, Palo Alto, California, Piece work, Politician, Potboiler, Republican Party (United States), Retail clerk, Retail Clerks International Union, Revolutionary socialism, Robert Minor, Robert S. Mullen, Russian Empire, Sensationalism, Sexual harassment, Sing Sing, Socialism, Socialist Party of America, Stanford University, Superior, Wisconsin, Supreme Court of the United States, Texas, United States Department of Justice, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, War correspondent, Will Herberg, William Z. Foster, Workers Party of America, Yiddish, 141st New York State Legislature, 1922 Bridgman Convention, 1926 New York state election.