Lot 266
U.S. Socialists and Communists: Thomas, Browder, Gitlow, and Foster. Norman Thomas (1884-1968) American Presbyterian minister who was a socialist, a pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. Typed letter signed, 1 page, on League For Industrial, New York, Democracy letterhead, Nov. 13, 1930. To Vernon Smith in Indianapolis, telling him how he might obtain autographs of other Socialists, including Eugene Debs (who died in 1926) and Max Easton. Earl Browder (1891-1973) American political activist; General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) during the 1930s and first half of the 1940s. Typed letter signed, 1 page, 11 x 8½ in., New York, Mar. 26, 1946. Less than two months after being expelled from the Communist Party, he writes the editor of The World Publishing Company about his projected autobiography and includes a three-page memorandum and a four-page carbon copy of a prospective letter to a literary agent giving a very detailed description of what he would include in the book. Ben Gitlow (1891-1965) Founding member of the Communist Party USA. who turned against it and wrote two sensational exposés. Typed letter signed as Secretary of the Organization Committee for a Revolutionary Workers party, 1 page, 11 x 8½ in., on official letterhead, New York, May 21, 1934. To six different groups inviting them to discuss launching a revolutionary party in the U.S. Marginal stains. William Z. Foster (1881-1961) Radical American labor organizer who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1945 to 1957. Typed letter signed ("Wm Z Foster"), 1 page, 11 x 8½ in., no place, Dec. 30, 1941. After Pearl Harbor, to Art Young: "What a storm the world is passing through. But I am convinced it is the darkness before the dawn….I am sure that both you and I will live to see a world so vastly changed for the better that it will be hard to realize that society was once so insane as it is now."
Estimated Value $300 - 400.
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