Forgotten Radicals Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919-1950

by Howard, Walter T.

• ISBN13: 9780761830917
• ISBN10: 076183091X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-21
• 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.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	v
Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Chapter 1 Anthracite Reds	1	(16)
Chapter 2 Communists and Miners, 1922-1926	17	(18)
Chapter 3 Eve of the Third Period	35	(12)
Chapter 4 National Textile Workers Union	47	(16)
Chapter 5 The National Miners Union	63	(20)
Chapter 6 Communists Organize the Unemployed, 1930-1932	83	(16)
Chapter 7 Giving Voice to the Miners' Discontent	99	(12)
Chapter 8 Communists and the Unemployed, 1933-1934	111	(16)
Chapter 9 Toward the Popular Front	127	(16)
Chapter 10 The Popular Front	143	(18)
Chapter 11 The Workers Alliance and the CIO	161	(12)
Chapter 12 Antifascism and the Democratic Front	173	(14)
Chapter 13 World War II	187	(14)
Epilogue Cold War Meltdown	201	(14)
Notes	215	(34)
Bibliography	249	(10)
About the Author	259	(2)
Index	261