Forgotten Radicals Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919-1950

by Howard, Walter T.

• ISBN13: 9780761830900
• ISBN10: 0761830901
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-28
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

This detailed investigation of Communists and their Party in the hard coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania, known as the Anthracite, draws on sources such as the central archives of the Communist Party of the United States to examine the origins, growth, and decline of the relatively small but active Marxist-Leninist organization that operated there during the first half of the 20th century.

Author Biography

Walter T. Howard is Associate Professor of History at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Anthracite Reds	p. 1
Communists and miners, 1922-1926	p. 17
Eve of the third period	p. 35
National Textile Workers Union	p. 47
The National Miners Union	p. 63
Communists organize the unemployed, 1930-1932	p. 83
Giving voice to the miners' discontent	p. 99
Communists and the unemployed, 1933-1934	p. 111
Toward the popular front	p. 127
The popular front	p. 143
The Workers Alliance and the CIO	p. 161
Antifascism and the Democratic Front	p. 173
World War II	p. 187
Epilogue : Cold War meltdown	p. 201
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