Fred Beal, the Glossary
Fred Erwin Beal (1896–1954) was an American labor-union organizer whose critical reflections on his work and travel in the Soviet Union divided left-wing and liberal opinion.[1]
Table of Contents
85 relations: American Civil Liberties Union, American Federation of Labor, American Legion, Bill Haywood, Calvin Coolidge, Central Prison, Clarence Miller (activist), Clyde R. Hoey, Communism, Communist Party of Canada, Communist Party USA, David Dubinsky, Death in vain, Democratic Party (United States), Democratic socialism, Dorothy Kenyon, Douglas Tottle, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Ella May Wiggins, Emily Greene Balch, Eugene V. Debs, First Red Scare, Five-year plans of the Soviet Union, Free love, Gareth Jones (journalist), Gastonia, North Carolina, Grigory Petrovsky, Harry Golden, Hearst Communications, Holodomor, Homer Martin (labor leader), House Un-American Activities Committee, Industrial Workers of the World, International Labor Defense, International Ladies Garment Workers Union, J. Melville Broughton, Jerry Voorhis, Joseph Stalin, Kharkiv Tractor Plant, Latvia, Lawrence, Massachusetts, Left Book Club, Leon Josephson, Leon Trotsky, Loray Mill strike, Louis Fischer, Mary Heaton Vorse, Massachusetts, Max Bedacht, Max Shachtman, ... Expand index (35 more) »
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 Federation of Labor
The American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO.
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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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Bill Haywood
William Dudley Haywood (February 4, 1869 – May 18, 1928), nicknamed "Big Bill", was an American labor organizer and founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and a member of the executive committee of the Socialist Party of America. Fred Beal and Bill Haywood are American communists.
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Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.;; July 4, 1872January 5, 1933) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929.
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Central Prison
Central Prison is a prison operated by the North Carolina Department of Public Safety in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Clarence Miller (activist)
Clarence Miller (born 1906) was a 20th-century American labor activist who, as a member of the Young Communist League USA, participated in the 1926 Passaic textile strike (January 25, 1926 – March 1, 1927) and the 1929 Loray Mill strike (AKA Gastonia Strike) (March 30, 1929 – June 7, 1929), in which he and six other labor leaders were found guilty of murder.
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Clyde R. Hoey
Clyde Roark Hoey (December 11, 1877May 12, 1954) was an American Democratic politician from North Carolina.
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Communism
Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.
Communist Party of Canada
The Communist Party of Canada (Parti communiste du Canada) is a federal political party in Canada.
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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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David Dubinsky
David Dubinsky (born David Isaac Dobnievski; February 22, 1892 – September 17, 1982) was a Belarusian-born American labor leader and politician.
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Death in vain
In the Sinosphere, a death in vain (枉死, 冤死, 屈死) is a death that is not a death of natural causes, such as a suicide, homicide, or an accident, which is an unjust death.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Democratic socialism is a centre-left to left-wing set of political philosophies that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and workers' self-management within a market socialist, decentralised planned, or democratic centrally planned socialist economy.
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Dorothy Kenyon
Dorothy Kenyon (February 17, 1888 – February 12, 1972) was a New York attorney, judge, feminist and political activist in support of civil liberties.
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Douglas Tottle
Douglas Tottle (born 1944) is a Canadian trade union activist and journalist, most notable for being the author of the book Fraud, Famine, and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard, which is classified as Holodomor denial literature by the United States Library of Congress.
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (August 7, 1890 – September 5, 1964) was an American labor leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Fred Beal and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn are American communists.
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Ella May Wiggins
Ella May Wiggins (ca. March 1900 – September 14, 1929) was a union organizer and balladeer who was killed during the Loray Mill Strike in Gastonia, North Carolina. Fred Beal and Ella May Wiggins are American trade unionists.
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Emily Greene Balch
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist.
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Eugene V. Debs
Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Fred Beal and Eugene V. Debs are American socialists.
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First Red Scare
The first Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution, German Revolution of 1918–1919, and anarchist bombings in the U.S.
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Five-year plans of the Soviet Union
The five-year plans for the development of the national economy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Пятилетние планы развития народного хозяйства СССР, Pyatiletniye plany razvitiya narodnogo khozyaystva SSSR) consisted of a series of nationwide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union, beginning in the late 1920s.
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Free love
Free love is a social movement that accepts all forms of love.
Gareth Jones (journalist)
Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones (13 August 1905 – 12 August 1935) was a Welsh journalist who in March 1933 first reported in the Western world, without equivocation and under his own name, the existence of the Soviet famine of 1930–1933, including the Holodomor.
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Gastonia, North Carolina
Gastonia is the most populous city in and the county seat of Gaston County, North Carolina, United States.
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Grigory Petrovsky
Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky (Григо́рий Ива́нович Петро́вский, translit; 4 February 1878 – 9 January 1958) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician and Old Bolshevik.
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Harry Golden
Harry Lewis Golden (May 6, 1902 – October 2, 1981) was an American writer and newspaper publisher.
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Hearst Communications
Hearst Communications, Inc. (often referred to simply as Hearst and formerly known as Hearst Corporation) is an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate based in Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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Holodomor
The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine, was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union. While scholars are in consensus that the cause of the famine was man-made, it remains in dispute whether the Holodomor was directed at Ukrainians and whether it constitutes a genocide.
Homer Martin (labor leader)
Homer Martin (September 16, 1901 in Illinois – January 22, 1968) was an American trade unionist, socialist, and the second president of the United Auto Workers (UAW).
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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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Industrial Workers of the World
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago in 1905.
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International Labor Defense
The International Labor Defense (ILD) (1925–1947) was a legal advocacy organization established in 1925 in the United States as the American section of the Comintern's International Red Aid network.
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International Ladies Garment Workers Union
The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), whose members were employed in the women's clothing industry, was once one of the largest labor unions in the United States, one of the first US unions to have a primarily female membership, and a key player in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s.
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J. Melville Broughton
Joseph Melville Broughton Jr. (November 17, 1888March 6, 1949) was an American politician who served as the 60th governor of North Carolina from 1941 to 1945.
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Jerry Voorhis
Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis (April 6, 1901 – September 11, 1984) was a Democratic politician and educator from California who served five terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947, representing the 12th congressional district in Los Angeles County.
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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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Kharkiv Tractor Plant
Kharkiv Tractor Plant (KhTZ or HTZ) (translit) is an agricultural machinery manufacturer in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
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Latvia
Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.
Lawrence, Massachusetts
Lawrence is a city located in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, on the Merrimack River.
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Left Book Club
The Left Book Club is a publishing group that exerted a strong left-wing influence in Great Britain, during its initial run, from 1936 to 1948.
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Leon Josephson
Leon Josephson (June 17, 1898 – February 1966) was an American Communist labor lawyer for International Labor Defense and a Soviet spy. Fred Beal and Leon Josephson are American communists.
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Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein (– 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist.
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Loray Mill strike
The Loray Mill strike of 1929 in Gastonia, North Carolina, was a notable strike action in the labor history of the United States.
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Louis Fischer
Louis Fischer (29 February 1896 – 15 January 1970) was an American journalist.
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Mary Heaton Vorse
Mary Heaton Vorse (October 11, 1874 – June 14, 1966) was an American journalist and novelist. Fred Beal and Mary Heaton Vorse are activists from Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Max Bedacht
Max Bedacht Sr. (October 13, 1883 – July 4, 1972) was a German-born American revolutionary socialist political activist, journalist, and functionary who helped establish the Communist Party of America.
Max Shachtman
Max Shachtman (September 10, 1904 – November 4, 1972) was an American Marxist theorist.
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Myra Page
Dorothy Markey (born Dorothy Page Gary, 1897–1993), known by the pen name Myra Page, was a 20th-century American communist writer, journalist, union activist, and teacher. | first. Fred Beal and Myra Page are American communists.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
New Bedford (Massachusett) is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Norman Thomas
Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968) was an American Presbyterian minister and political activist. Fred Beal and Norman Thomas are American socialists.
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Odesa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.
Olive Tilford Dargan
Olive Tilford Dargan (January 11, 1869 – January 22, 1968) was a writer and a poet.
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Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.
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Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh is the capital city of the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County.
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Recession
In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction that occurs when there is a general decline in economic activity.
Red-baiting
Red-baiting, also known as reductio ad Stalinum and red-tagging (in the Philippines), is an intention to discredit the validity of a political opponent and the opponent's logical argument by accusing, denouncing, attacking, or persecuting the target individual or group as anarchist, communist, Marxist, socialist, Stalinist, or fellow travelers towards these ideologies.
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974. Fred Beal and Richard Nixon are American anti-communists.
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Right Book Club
The Right Book Club was an English book club founded in 1937 by Christina and William Foyle to counter the influential Left Book Club, established in 1936 by Victor Gollancz.
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Robert M. La Follette
Robert Marion La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855June 18, 1925), was an American lawyer and politician.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were Italian immigrants and anarchists who were controversially convicted of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the April 15, 1920, armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States.
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Sara Bard Field
Sara Bard Field (September 1, 1882 – June 15, 1974) was an American poet, suffragist, free love advocate, Georgist, and Christian socialist.
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Socialist Appeal was a newspaper published by American Trotskyists from 1935 to 1941.
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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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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Syndicalism
Syndicalism is a revolutionary current within the labour movement that, through industrial unionism, seeks to unionize workers according to industry and advance their demands through strikes, with the eventual goal of gaining control over the means of production and the economy at large through social ownership.
The Forward
The Forward (Forverts), formerly known as The Jewish Daily Forward, is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Nation
The Nation is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Thomas Ryum Amlie
Thomas Ryum Amlie (April 17, 1897 – August 22, 1973) was a U.S. representative from Wisconsin, elected to Congress as a member of the Republican Party from 1931 to 1933 and again from 1935 to 1939 as a member of the Wisconsin Progressive Party.
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Trotskyism
Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International.
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika; Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991.
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United Auto Workers
The United Auto Workers (UAW), fully named International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, is an American labor union that represents workers in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and southern Ontario, Canada.
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Vera Buch
Vera Wilhelmine Buch Weisbord (Forestville, Connecticut 19 August 1895 – Chicago 6 September 1987) was an American political activist and union organizer. Fred Beal and Vera Buch are American communists.
Walter Duranty
Walter Duranty (25 May 1884 – 3 October 1957) was an Anglo-American journalist who served as Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times for fourteen years (1922–1936) following the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1917–1923).
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William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst Sr. (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper publisher and politician who developed the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications.
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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. Fred Beal and William Z. Foster are American trade unionists.
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Wisconsin Progressive Party
The Wisconsin Progressive Party (1934–1946) was a political party that briefly held a dominant role in Wisconsin politics.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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.
Young Communist League USA
The Young Communist League USA (YCLUSA) is a communist youth organization in the United States.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Beal
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