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Len De Caux, the Glossary

Len De Caux (aka Leonard De Caux) (1899–1991) was a 20th-century labor activist in the United States of America who served as publicity director for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and worked to stop passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947.^[1]

67 relations: Abraham George Silverman, Alger Hiss, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, American entry into World War I, American Federation of Labor, Bessarabia, Brookwood Labor College, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, Carl Haessler, Charles Kramer (economist), CIO-PAC, Communism, Communist Party of Great Britain, Communist Party USA, Congress of Industrial Organizations, Donald E. Montgomery, Donald Hiss, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federated Press, Fellow traveller, Harold Ware, Harrow School, Henry A. Wallace, Henry Collins (official), Henry Kraus, Hope Hale Davis, House Un-American Activities Committee, Industrial Workers of the World, Institute of Pacific Relations, J. Peters, Jacob Golos, Jessica Smith (editor), John Abt, John L. Lewis, John Q. Public, Lee Pressman, Linotype machine, Marc Blitzstein, Marion Bachrach, Maritime transport, Mary Heaton Vorse, Mary van Kleeck, McCarthyism, Millard Lampell, Milwaukee, Nathan Witt, National Association of Manufacturers, Oscar Ameringer, Philip Murray, Progressive Party (United States, 1948–1955), ... Expand index (17 more) »
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Abraham George Silverman

Abraham George Silverman (1900 — 1973) was a mathematician and statistician who was a member of the Soviet Ware Group.

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Alger Hiss

Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) was a United States labor union known for its support for "social unionism" and progressive political causes.

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American entry into World War I

The United States entered into World War I in April 1917, more than two and a half years after the war began in Europe.

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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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Bessarabia

Bessarabia is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west.

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Brookwood Labor College

Brookwood Labor College (1921 to 1937) was a labor college located at 109 Cedar Road in Katonah, New York, United States.

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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) is a labor union founded in Marshall, Michigan, on 8 May 1863 as the Brotherhood of the Footboard.

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Carl Haessler

Carl Haessler (1888–1972) was an American political activist, conscription resister, newspaper editor, and trade union organizer.

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Charles Kramer (economist)

Charles Kramer, originally Charles Krevisky (December 14, 1907 – September 27, 1992) was a 20th-Century American economist who worked for U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his brain trust.

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CIO-PAC

The first-ever "political action committee" in the United States of America was the Congress of Industrial Organizations – Political Action Committee or CIO-PAC (1943–1955).

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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.

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Communist Party of Great Britain

The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups.

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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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Congress of Industrial Organizations

The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955.

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Donald E. Montgomery

Donald Ewan Montgomery (1896–1957) was an American economist who served in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) during the New Deal, and later was a labor activist for the United Automobile Workers (UAW).

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Donald Hiss

Donald Hiss (December 15, 1906 – May 18, 1989), also known as "Donie" and "Donnie", was the younger brother of Alger Hiss.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Federated Press

This is not to be confused with the independent, research-based organization of Toronto, Canada, also called "" that targets executives, lawyers, professionals. The Federated Press was a left wing news service, established in 1920, that provided daily content to the radical and labor press in America, characterized widely from a mere "labor wire service".

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Fellow traveller

A fellow traveller (also fellow traveler) is a person who is intellectually sympathetic to the ideology of a political organization, and who co-operates in the organization's politics, without being a formal member.

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Harold Ware

Harold or "Hal" Ware (August 19, 1889 – August 14, 1935) was an American Marxist, regarded as one of the Communist Party's top experts on agriculture. Len De Caux and Harold Ware are members of the Communist Party USA.

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Harrow School

Harrow School is a public school (English boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England.

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Henry A. Wallace

Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American politician, journalist, farmer, and businessman who served as the 33rd vice president of the United States, from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Henry Collins (official)

Henry Hill Collins Jr. (1905–1961), also known as Henry H. Collins, Jr., and Henry Collins, was an American citizen employed in the New Deal National Recovery Administration in the 1930s and later the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Len De Caux and Henry Collins (official) are members of the Communist Party USA.

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Henry Kraus

Henry Kraus (November 13, 1905 in Knoxville, Tennessee – January 27, 1995 in Paris) was an American labor historian, and European art historian.

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Hope Hale Davis

Hope Hale Davis (née Frances Hope Hale; November 2, 1903 – October 2, 2004) was an American feminist (or "proto-feminist") and communist, later a writer and writing teacher. Len De Caux and Hope Hale Davis are members of the Communist Party USA.

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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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Institute of Pacific Relations

The Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) was an international NGO established in 1925 to provide a forum for discussion of problems and relations between nations of the Pacific Rim.

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J. Peters

J. Len De Caux and J. Peters are members of the Communist Party USA.

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Jacob Golos

Jacob Golos (born Yakov Naumovich Reizen, Russian: Яков Наумович Рейзен; April 24, 1889 - November 27, 1943) was a Ukrainian-born Bolshevik revolutionary who became an intelligence operative in the United States on behalf of the USSR. Len De Caux and Jacob Golos are members of the Communist Party USA.

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Jessica Smith (editor)

Jessica Smith (November 29, 1895–October 17, 1983) was an American editor and activist and was the wife of Harold Ware and subsequently John Abt, both members of the Ware Group run by Whittaker Chambers and whose members also included Alger Hiss. Len De Caux and Jessica Smith (editor) are members of the Communist Party USA.

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John Abt

John Jacob Abt (May 1, 1904 – August 10, 1991) was an American lawyer and politician, who spent most of his career as chief counsel to the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and was a member of the Communist Party and the Soviet spy network "Ware Group" as alleged by Whittaker Chambers. Len De Caux and John Abt are members of the Communist Party USA.

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John L. Lewis

John Llewellyn Lewis (February 12, 1880 – June 11, 1969) was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960. Len De Caux and John L. Lewis are Congress of Industrial Organizations people.

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John Q. Public

John Q. Public (and several similar names; see the Variations section below) is a generic name and placeholder name, especially in American English, to denote a hypothetical member of society, deemed a "common man", who is presumed to represent the randomly selected "man on the street".

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Lee Pressman

Lee Pressman (July 1, 1906 – November 20, 1969) was a labor attorney and earlier a US government functionary, publicly alleged in 1948 to have been a spy for Soviet intelligence during the mid-1930s (as a member of the Ware Group), following his recent departure from Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) as a result of its purge of Communist Party members and fellow travelers. Len De Caux and Lee Pressman are members of the Communist Party USA.

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Linotype machine

The Linotype machine is a "line casting" machine used in printing which is manufactured and sold by the former Mergenthaler Linotype Company and related It was a hot metal typesetting system that cast lines of metal type for one-time use.

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Marc Blitzstein

Marcus Samuel Blitzstein (March 2, 1905January 22, 1964), was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist. Len De Caux and Marc Blitzstein are members of the Communist Party USA.

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Marion Bachrach

Marion Bachrach (Abt; 1898–1957) was a member of the Ware group, a group of government employees in the New Deal administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt who were also members of the secret apparatus of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) in the 1930s.

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Maritime transport

Maritime transport (or ocean transport) or more generally waterborne transport, is the transport of people (passengers) or goods (cargo) via waterways.

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Mary Heaton Vorse

Mary Heaton Vorse (October 11, 1874 – June 14, 1966) was an American journalist and novelist.

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Mary van Kleeck

Mary Abby van Kleeck (June 26, 1883June 8, 1972) was an American social scientist of the 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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Millard Lampell

Millard Lampell (born Milton Lampell, January 23, 1919 – October 3, 1997) was an American movie and television screenwriter who first became publicly known as a member of the Almanac Singers in the 1940s.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Milwaukee County.

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Nathan Witt

Nathan Witt (February 11, 1903 – February 16, 1982), born Nathan Wittowsky, was an American lawyer who is best known as being the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from 1937 to 1940.

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National Association of Manufacturers

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) is an advocacy group headquartered in Washington, D.C., with additional offices across the United States.

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Oscar Ameringer

Oscar Ameringer (August 4, 1870 – November 5, 1943) was a German-American Socialist editor, author, and organizer from the late 1890s until his death in 1943.

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Philip Murray

Philip Murray (May 25, 1886 – November 9, 1952) was a Scottish-born steelworker and an American labor leader. Len De Caux and Philip Murray are Congress of Industrial Organizations people.

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Progressive Party (United States, 1948–1955)

The Progressive Party was a left-wing political party in the United States that served as a vehicle for the campaign of Henry A. Wallace, a former vice president, to become President of the United States in 1948.

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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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Taft–Hartley Act

The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, better known as the Taft–Hartley Act, is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions.

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The Almanac Singers

The Almanac Singers was an American New York City-based folk music group, active between 1940 and 1943, founded by Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and were joined by Woody Guthrie.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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United Mine Workers of America

The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and production, works to assure food safety, protects natural resources, fosters rural communities and works to end hunger in the United States and internationally.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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Victor Perlo

Victor Perlo (May 15, 1912December 1, 1999) was an American Marxist economist, government functionary, and a longtime member of the governing National Committee of the Communist Party USA. Len De Caux and Victor Perlo are members of the Communist Party USA.

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Walter Reuther

Walter Philip Reuther (September 1, 1907 – May 9, 1970) was an American leader of organized labor and civil rights activist who built the United Automobile Workers (UAW) into one of the most progressive labor unions in American history. Len De Caux and Walter Reuther are American trade union leaders, Brookwood Labor College alumni and Congress of Industrial Organizations people.

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Ware Group

The Ware Group was a covert organization of Communist Party USA operatives within the United States government in the 1930s, run first by Harold Ware (1889–1935) and then by Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961) after Ware's accidental death on August 13, 1935. Len De Caux and Ware Group are members of the Communist Party USA.

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The Young People's Socialist League (YPSL), founded in 1907, was the official youth arm of the Socialist Party of America.

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References

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

Also known as Len DeCaux.

, Socialist Party of America, Taft–Hartley Act, The Almanac Singers, Time (magazine), United Mine Workers of America, United States Department of Agriculture, University of Oxford, Victor Perlo, Walter Reuther, Ware Group, Wayne State University, We the People (American TV series), Westport, New Zealand, William Green (U.S. labor leader), Woody Guthrie, World War II, Young People's Socialist League (1907).

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Brookwood Labor College alumni

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen people

Congress of Industrial Organizations people

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