Chapter 1 List of Tables Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Anthracite Reds Chapter 5 Communists and Miners, 1922-1926 Chapter 6 Eve of the Third Period Chapter 7 National Textile Workers Union Chapter 8 The National Miners Union Chapter 9 Communists Organize the Unemployed, 1930-1932 Chapter 10 Giving Voice to the Miners' Discontent Chapter 11 Communists and the Unemployed, 1933-1934 Chapter 12 Toward the Popular Front Chapter 13 The Popular Front Chapter 14 The Workers Alliance and the CIO Chapter 15 Antifascism and the Democratic Front Chapter 16 World War II Chapter 17 Cold War Meltdown Chapter 18 Notes Chapter 19 Bibliography Chapter 20 About the Author Chapter 21 Index
Walter T. Howard is Associate Professor of History at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. Professor Howard holds a Ph.D. in History from Florida State University.
Exhaustively mining archival, newspaper, and secondary sources as
well as over a dozen interviews, Howard has written a
solid....study surely destined to be the last word on his
subject.Summing Up: RECOMMENDED. Graduate students and faculty.
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Howard investigates the "Anthracite Reds," who operated in the home
ground of the Molly Maguires and the Lattimer massacre. He shows
how conditions were ripe for members of the Communist Parts there
to attempt to organize resistance to the overwhelming power of the
mine owners, sustain unemployed miners in the Depression, support
labor unions, and lead opposition to local fascist organizations
before World War II. He also shows how the Cold War made it nearly
impossible for a miner to declare himself a communist and remain in
the anthracite.
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Howard carefully tells the story of how the indigenous leaders and
members of the anthracite party struggled to build their
organization from 1919. Howard's narrative does not support either
the traditional view of the party's subservience to the
Cominternnor revisionist views of the part as a genuine form of
American radicalism. Instead, Howard documents the rather stormy
history of party line changes, as well as local issues championed
by the largely immigrant workers who led the party in the
anthracite region....As such,Forgotten Radicals makes a significant
contribution to the literature on local Communist Party history and
gives much to historians of the anthracite region, historians of
the Communist Party, and labor historians in general.
*Samuel W. White, Assistant Professor, Labor Education Program,
University of Missouri*
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