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    Israel Amter (March 26, 1881 — November 24, 1954) was an American Marxist politician and founding member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Amter is best...
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    delegates. This Unemployment Conference of Greater New York elected Israel Amter, a member of the underground United Communist Party of America (UCP)...
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    nominating petition for their candidates on August 28. They nominated Israel Amter for governor; Frank Herron, of Buffalo, for lieutenant governor; Benjamin...
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  • the Communist Party USA started joining the American Labor Party and Israel Amter, chair of the Communist Party, called for the "building of the American...
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    was arrested together with Communist Party leaders Robert Minor, and Israel Amter on the steps of City Hall. The group ultimately received sentences and...
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    events, together with his Communist Party comrades William Z. Foster, Israel Amter, and Harry Felton. The four were sentenced to 3 year terms in the New...
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  • secretariat of the New York State Communist Party along with Si Gerson and Israel Amter, and the National Committee of the "Communist Political Association."...
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    Brooklyn. Members of the Communist Party USA started joining the party and Israel Amter, chair of the Communist Party, called for the "building of the American...
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    Senate. The Communist State Committee met on August 28, and nominated Israel Amter for governor. The Socialist state convention met on July 1 at New York...
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    of State § Abdulrahman al-Awlaki (1995–2011), son of Anwar al-Awlaki Israel Amter (1881–1954), Communist Party USA founding member, activist Jim Bates...
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    Workers Library Publishers, 1941. Speed the Second Front (with Browder, Israel Amter and Max Weiss), New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1942. America at...
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    state convention met on June 19 at Schenectady, New York, and nominated Israel Amter for governor; and Henry Shepard, a "Harlem Negro", for Lieutenant Governor...
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  • Browder, Roger Baldwin, Paul Reid, William Spofford, H. W. L. Dana, Israel Amter, A. J. Muste, Dorothy Detzer, William Pickens, Oscar Ameringer, William...
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    1,501,039 36.40 American Labor Dean Alfange 403,626 9.79 Communist Israel Amter 45,220 1.10 Socialist Coleman B. Cheney 21,911 0.53 Industrial Government...
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  • William Z. Foster, Jack Stachel, Alexander Bittelman, Max Bedacht, Israel Amter, Gil Green, Harry Haywood, and James S. Allen among others at the "National...
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  • Name Life dates Party Candidate Term(s) of service Israel Amter     1928s   Donald E. Babcock   American 1976   George H. Bender 1869-1961 Republican 1954s...
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    of his application, Morrow was advised by New York District Organizer Israel Amter that he would be of greater service to the party as a "secret" member...
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    023,131 Richard B. Scandrett Jr. 1,980,352 Matthew J. Merritt 329,029 Israel Amter 105,681 Brendan Sexton 24,990 Richard B. Scandrett 10,103 Jeremiah D...
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  • 1951, in New York —Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Claudia Jones, Pettis Perry, Israel Amter, Betty Gannett, Alexander Bittelman, Alexander Trachtenberg, Simon W...
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  • (chairman), Robert Minor (secretary), James W. Ford, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Israel Amter, Rose Wortis, Ray Hansbrough, Steve Nelson, Louis Todd, Sam Don, Alexander...
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    ▌George M. Fayles (Republican) 19.7% ▌Samuel Orr (Socialist) 11.9% ▌Israel Amter (Communist) 1.3% New York 24 James M. Fitzpatrick Democratic 1926 Incumbent...
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    429,554 62.43% Democratic Graham P. Hunt 856,807 37.42% Independent Israel Amter 2,062 0.09% Independent Anna K. Storck 1,389 0.06% Majority 572,747 25...
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    Indust. Un.") During the same period, he supported the candidacy of Israel Amter for governor of New York on the Communist Party ticket. In 1943, he served...
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  • unemployment demonstration alongside adult Communist leaders William Z. Foster, Israel Amter, and Robert Minor. This time he was sentenced to almost six years in...
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    2. They nominated Party State Chairman Robert Thompson for Governor; Israel Amter for Lieutenant Governor; Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., of New York City, for...
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    show principal correspondents as: William F. Dunne, William Z. Foster, Israel Amter, Roger Baldwin, Max Bedacht, Cedric Belfrage, Earl Browder, Eugene Dennis...
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  • Russell Thayer, Regina Rakoczy, Sophia Pressman (wife of Lee Pressman, Israel Amter, Malcolm Cowley, Robert W. Kenny, Harry C. Lamberton, Prof. Oliver Larkin...
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    Rodgers (Republican) 22.6% ▌Richard B. Scandrett, Jr. (Republican) 22.3% ▌Israel Amter (Communist) 1.2% ▌Edna Mitchell Blue (Socialist) 0.3% ▌Brendan Sexton...
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    the Communist Party USA started joining the American Labor Party and Israel Amter, chair of the Communist Party, called for the "building of the American...
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  • International Conference of IRA, held in Moscow on July 14–16, 1924, Israel Amter (1881–1954, co-founder of the CPUSA) "stated unequivocally" that the...
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