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William Z. Foster (February 25, 1881 – September 1, 1961) was a radical American labor organizer and Communist politician, whose career included serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1945 to 1957.
William Z. Foster. William Zebulon Foster (* 25. Februar 1881 in Taunton, Massachusetts; † 1. September 1961 in Moskau) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker (CPUSA) und Gewerkschafter. Von 1929 bis 1934 sowie von 1945 bis 1957 war er Vorsitzender der Kommunistischen Partei der USA (CPUSA).
A collection of writings by William Z. Foster (1881–1961), a prominent American labor leader and revolutionary syndicalist. The archive covers his journalistic reports on labor struggles in the US and abroad, his political views and activities, and his biography.
William Z. Foster was an American labour agitator and Communist Party leader who ran for the presidency in 1924, 1928, and 1932. A militant union organizer from 1894, Foster joined the Industrial Workers of the World (1909), which aimed at achieving socialism through industry-wide labour.
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25. Feb. 2021 · William Z. Foster addresses a rally of packinghouse workers in Chicago, 1919. | People’s World Archives In July 1917, Foster conceived a plan to bring the huge open-shop meatpacking industry...
William Z. Foster (1881-1961)."1 Growing up in the slums of Philadelphia, Foster became a transient wage-laborer early in life, spending several years criss-crossing the country. He landed in Spokane, Washington, where he joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and became active in the organization's 1909-1910 Spokane Free Speech Fight ...
LaborHistory,Vol.43,No.4,2002 RevolutionandPersonalCrisis:WilliamZ. Foster,PersonalNarrative,andthe SubjectiveintheHistoryofAmerican Communism1 JAMESR.BARRETT
