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American politician (1891–1965)
Benjamin Gitlow (December 22, 1891 – July 19, 1965) was a prominent American socialist politician of the early 20th century and a founding member of the
Benjamin_Gitlow
1925 United States Supreme Court case
conviction under New York state law of Socialist politician and journalist Benjamin Gitlow for the publication of a "left-wing manifesto" in 1919. In a majority
Gitlow_v._New_York
Surname list
Gitlow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Benjamin Gitlow (1891–1965), American politician and author Stuart Gitlow (born 1962), American
Gitlow
Foster was named as the party's candidate for the presidency while Benjamin Gitlow, a former opponent of Foster's within the party, was named as its candidate
1928 United States presidential election
1928_United_States_presidential_election
American political party
presidential or vice presidential candidates on the party ticket. Others like Benjamin J. Davis, William L. Patterson, Harry Haywood, James Jackson, Henry Winston
Communist_Party_USA
American civil liberties lawyer (1887–1940)
known cases involved the defense before the Supreme Court of Communist Benjamin Gitlow and the Scottsboro Boys. Walter Heilprin Pollak was born on June 4
Walter_Pollak
American labor organizer and Communist politician (1881–1961)
voted decisively to install Foster as chairman over his opponent, Benjamin Gitlow. However, on the final day, a telegram from the Comintern indicated
William_Z._Foster
American politician (1873–1944)
87%) Charles E. Manierre Ella McCarthy Prohibition 21,285 (0.73%) Benjamin Gitlow Franklin P. Brill Workers 5,507 (0.19%) Jeremiah D. Crowley John E
Al_Smith
American individualist anarchist (1854–1939)
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (/ˈtʌkər/; April 17, 1854 – June 22, 1939) was an American individualist anarchist and self-identified socialist. Tucker was
Benjamin_Tucker
1930s US veterans' protest movement
"ex-convicts and Communists." In his memoir The Whole of Their Lives (1948) Benjamin Gitlow of the Communist Party USA claimed that a number of communists had
Bonus_Army
electoral votes. All popular votes were originally for Horace Greeley and Benjamin Gratz Brown. The used sources had insufficient data to determine the pairings
United States presidential election
United_States_presidential_election
American journalist, poet, and activist (1887–1920)
with reluctance. Years after abandoning communism himself, his friend Benjamin Gitlow asserted that Reed became bitterly disillusioned with the communist
John_Reed_(journalist)
Communist Party USA, nominated William Z. Foster for president and Benjamin Gitlow for vice president. This was the same ticket that it had also nominated
1928 Workers (Communist) National Convention
1928_Workers_(Communist)_National_Convention
US political organization
Bois Albert Einstein James W. Ford William Z. Foster Luigi Galleani Benjamin Gitlow Emma Goldman William Batchelder Greene Gus Hall Michael Harrington
Democratic Socialists of America
Democratic_Socialists_of_America
American activist (1897–1990)
organizing committee, the Committee of 15, with Wolfe, John Reed and Benjamin Gitlow. That June he attended the National Conference of the Left Wing. When
Jay_Lovestone
American socialist magazine
Bois Albert Einstein James W. Ford William Z. Foster Luigi Galleani Benjamin Gitlow Emma Goldman William Batchelder Greene Gus Hall Michael Harrington
Jacobin_(magazine)
1901–1972 United States political party
Wingers without delegate credentials, including Reed and his sidekick Benjamin Gitlow, made an effort to occupy chairs on the convention floor before the
Socialist_Party_of_America
Co-founder of International Publishers and director of the Soviet Bureau
looked like a private business, according to ex-communist witness Benjamin Gitlow. Trachtenberg claimed that Heller and he split ownership 50-50. Trachtenberg
Abraham_A._Heller
Political party in the United States
Lovestone and including such former CPUSA stalwarts as Ellen Dawson, Benjamin Gitlow, William Kruse, Bertram D. Wolfe, and Charles S. Zimmerman. The new
Lovestoneites
Faction of the Socialist Party of America in 1919
Ruthenberg, I. E. Ferguson, John Ballam, James Larkin, Eamon MacAlpine, Benjamin Gitlow, Maximilian Cohen, and Bertram Wolfe. Ferguson was named national secretary
Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party
Left_Wing_Section_of_the_Socialist_Party
American political party
Bois Albert Einstein James W. Ford William Z. Foster Luigi Galleani Benjamin Gitlow Emma Goldman William Batchelder Greene Gus Hall Michael Harrington
Revolutionary Communists of America
Revolutionary_Communists_of_America
American activist (1891–1973)
Bert Miller ignited the 1926 Passaic textile strike, as related by Benjamin Gitlow in his 1939 memoir: The man who started the ball rolling was Bert Miller
Benjamin_Mandel
List of Communist Party USA members who have held public office
Montana The Magazine of Western History. 67 (2): 43–61. JSTOR 26322816. Gitlow, Benjamin (1940). I Confess: The Truth About American Communism. E. P. Dutton
List of Communist Party USA members who have held office in the United States
List_of_Communist_Party_USA_members_who_have_held_office_in_the_United_States
California 0 William Z. Foster Communist Massachusetts 38,669 0.13% 0 Benjamin Gitlow New York 0 Frank T. Johns Socialist Labor Oregon 28,633 0.10% 0 Verne
1924 United States presidential election
1924_United_States_presidential_election
Highest decision-making body and quadrennial event of the Communist Party USA
to create a new party at a convention in Chicago. A minority, led by Ben Gitlow and John Reed, split with the majority and attempted to infiltrate the Socialist
National conventions of the Communist Party USA
National_conventions_of_the_Communist_Party_USA
meeting selected William Z. Foster as its presidential nominee and Benjamin Gitlow as its vice presidential nominee. After the nomination proceedings
1924 Workers National Convention
1924_Workers_National_Convention
1791 amendment limiting government restriction of civil liberties
the First Amendment more broadly. In Gitlow v. New York (1925), the Court upheld the conviction of Benjamin Gitlow, who had been convicted after distributing
First Amendment to the United States Constitution
First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Aspect of U.S. political history
convention on September 1, 1919. Meanwhile, plans led by John Reed and Benjamin Gitlow to crash the Socialist Party Convention went ahead. Tipped off, the
History of the Communist Party USA
History_of_the_Communist_Party_USA
American politician (1882–1954)
Left, 1890–1928. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007; pg. 142. Benjamin Gitlow, I Confess: The Truth About American Communism. New York: E.P. Dutton
John_J._Ballam
American anti-communist organization
(chair), Benjamin Schultz (executive director), Harry Pasternak (treasurer) as well as Bern Dibner, Lawrence Fertig, Theodore Fine, Benjamin Gitlow, Walter
Joint Committee Against Communism
Joint_Committee_Against_Communism
American scholar and left-wing activist (1896–1977)
headed by William Z. Foster and Alexander Bittelman. According to Benjamin Gitlow's 1940 memoir, I Confess, Wolfe was directed by the Comintern in April
Bertram_Wolfe
Communist Party USA training center
breakaway Communist Party (Majority Group) headed by Jay Lovestone and Benjamin Gitlow (supported by Bertram D. Wolfe and Ben Davidson) after they left the
New_York_Workers_School
American variant of Marxism–Leninism
Mitchell (1968) Gus Hall (1972; 1976; 1980; 1984) Vice Presidential Benjamin Gitlow (1924; 1928) James W. Ford (1932; 1936; 1940) Mike Zagarell (1968)
Browderism
Political party in the United States
Workers Party campaign poster featuring James P. Cannon, William Z. Foster, Benjamin Gitlow, and Harry Winitsky, 1924
Workers_Party_of_America
Secretary of the Communist Party USA for California
Mitchell (1968) Gus Hall (1972; 1976; 1980; 1984) Vice Presidential Benjamin Gitlow (1924; 1928) James W. Ford (1932; 1936; 1940) Mike Zagarell (1968)
William_Schneiderman
sixty IWW leaders were charged under the acts. In 1919, John Reed, Benjamin Gitlow and other Socialists formed the Communist Labor Party of America, while
History of left-wing politics in the United States
History_of_left-wing_politics_in_the_United_States
Legal advocacy organization in the United States
newspaper. The most important ACLU case of the 1920s was Gitlow v. New York, in which Benjamin Gitlow was arrested for violating a state law against inciting
American Civil Liberties Union
American_Civil_Liberties_Union
only moderates left, at one third of its original size. John Reed, Benjamin Gitlow and other socialists were among those who formed the Communist Labor
Socialism in the United States
Socialism_in_the_United_States
created a new group. The origin of the group goes back to a resolution Benjamin Gitlow submitted to the Second National Conference of the Lovestone group
Gitlowites
American politician (1882–1927)
California". Sup. Ct. Rev. 2005: 333. Johnson, The Day is Coming, pg. 18. Benjamin Gitlow, I Confess: The Truth About American Communism. New York: E.P. Dutton
C._E._Ruthenberg
Russian-born anarchist (1869–1940)
Bois Albert Einstein James W. Ford William Z. Foster Luigi Galleani Benjamin Gitlow Emma Goldman William Batchelder Greene Gus Hall Michael Harrington
Emma_Goldman
American national youth organization
Mitchell (1968) Gus Hall (1972; 1976; 1980; 1984) Vice Presidential Benjamin Gitlow (1924; 1928) James W. Ford (1932; 1936; 1940) Mike Zagarell (1968)
W. E. B. Du Bois Clubs of America
W._E._B._Du_Bois_Clubs_of_America
Period of the US Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930
court upheld the conviction of the defendant, socialist Benjamin Gitlow, on the basis that Gitlow's speech represented a danger to the country under the
Taft_Court
US legal advocacy organization
William Mollenhauer Henry Corbishley Mandell Schuchter Dan Stevens Benjamin Gitlow Robert Whitaker Cora Meyers David Rhys Williams Fred Mann John Edenstrom
International_Labor_Defense
American spy for the Soviet Union
the Soviet OGPU during the "Third Period". According to a book by Benjamin Gitlow, a founding member of the CPUSA, Poyntz was a delegate to several consecutive
Juliet_Stuart_Poyntz
Phenomenon of US political rhetoric after WWII
Kantorowicz, historian Danny Kaye, comedian, singer[full citation needed] Benjamin Keen, historian Otto Klemperer, conductor and composer Gypsy Rose Lee,
McCarthyism
List of Communist Party USA members who have run for public office
2026. Retrieved May 12, 2026. "First of the City and Last of the State: Benjamin Nichols and Ithaca's Flirtations with Socialism". Cosmonaut. Archived from
List of Communist Party USA election results
List_of_Communist_Party_USA_election_results
American labor organizer (1869–1928)
Bois Albert Einstein James W. Ford William Z. Foster Luigi Galleani Benjamin Gitlow Emma Goldman William Batchelder Greene Gus Hall Michael Harrington
Bill_Haywood
Political parties in New York, United States
Assemblyman (1918) Charles B. Garfinkel, New York State Assemblyman (1918) Benjamin Gitlow, New York State Assemblyman (1918) William Karlin, New York State Assemblyman
Socialist_Party_of_New_York
American political party
California, March 23-April 23, 1920. Oakland, CA: James H. Dolsen, 1920. Benjamin Gitlow, The "Red Ruby" Address to the Jury: Also, Darrow; the Judge Giovanitti
Communist Labor Party of America
Communist_Labor_Party_of_America
American far-left political group
Bois Albert Einstein James W. Ford William Z. Foster Luigi Galleani Benjamin Gitlow Emma Goldman William Batchelder Greene Gus Hall Michael Harrington
Redneck_Revolt
Co-founder of the Communist Party of America (1919)
Mitchell (1968) Gus Hall (1972; 1976; 1980; 1984) Vice Presidential Benjamin Gitlow (1924; 1928) James W. Ford (1932; 1936; 1940) Mike Zagarell (1968)
Charles_Dirba
Lithuanian-American political activist
pg. 94. Benjamin Gitlow, I Confess: The Truth About American Communism. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1940; pp. 142-143. The accuracy of Gitlow's testimony
Anthony_Bimba
American socialist gun rights organization
Bois Albert Einstein James W. Ford William Z. Foster Luigi Galleani Benjamin Gitlow Emma Goldman William Batchelder Greene Gus Hall Michael Harrington
Socialist_Rifle_Association
American journalist and politician (1889–1956)
of the CPUSA Benjamin Gitlow asserted that "H.M. Wicks went on special missions to Germany and Central America." This assertion by Gitlow is unconfirmed
H._M._Wicks
Book series published by John Birch Society
Victory Senator Joseph R. McCarthy 1951 4 The Whole of Their Lives Benjamin Gitlow 1948 5 Shanghai Conspiracy: The Sorge Spy Ring, Moscow, Shanghai, Tokyo
One_Dozen_Candles
American politician and lawyer
State Assembly in the Bronx County 3rd District. He lost to Socialist Benjamin Gitlow. In 1918, he ran again with the endorsement of both Democrats and Republicans
Robert_S._Mullen
Political party
files and subscription lists. According to a 1940 tell-all book by Benjamin Gitlow, the Communist Party's assistant organizational secretary Jack Stachel
Communist_League_of_America
American journalist, writer, translator and anticommunist
addition, his visitors in Paris included ex-CP members Jay Lovestone and Benjamin Gitlow, and he was also known to have visited the US Embassy in Paris weekly
Charles_Malamuth
Political party in Georgia (U.S. state)
Year President Vice President Votes Percent 1924 William Z. Foster Benjamin Gitlow 0 0.00% 1928 64 0.03% 1932 James W. Ford 23 0.01% 1936 Earl Browder
Communist Party of Georgia (U.S. state)
Communist_Party_of_Georgia_(U.S._state)
Italian-American union leader, socialist political activist and poet
2010-07-21 at the Wayback Machine in The Red Ruby: Address to the Jury by Benjamin Gitlow. [New York]: Communist Labor Party, n.d. [1920]; pp. 14–15. Eugenio
Arturo_Giovannitti
Ukrainian-born Jewish American labor organizer (1886-1982)
disdained the notion of consumer organizing, Lemlich and Kate Gitlow, mother of Benjamin Gitlow, attempted to organize a union of housewives that would address
Clara_Lemlich
Russian-American anarchist and writer (1870–1936)
and Lucy Parsons. Among those who criticized Berkman were Jo Labadie, Benjamin Tucker, and many other anarchists who believed the anarchist struggle should
Alexander_Berkman
1890s–1920s US political reform movement
of Rights so that those rights would apply to the states. In 1920, Benjamin Gitlow was convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 and the case went all
Progressive_Era
Left-wing politics in the United States
sixty IWW leaders were charged under the acts. In 1919, John Reed, Benjamin Gitlow and other Socialists formed the Communist Labor Party of America, while
American_Left
CPUSA leader and co-founder of Workers Schools
Mitchell (1968) Gus Hall (1972; 1976; 1980; 1984) Vice Presidential Benjamin Gitlow (1924; 1928) James W. Ford (1932; 1936; 1940) Mike Zagarell (1968)
Abraham_Markoff
454 votes for Joseph Miller on the Single Tax Line and 443 votes for Benjamin Gitlow on the Workers League Line Notes: The Single Tax on land values was
New York City mayoral elections
New_York_City_mayoral_elections
Jewish American labor leader, journalist and politician (1886-1938)
popularity made Cahan jealous. As early as 1914 or 1915, Cahan wrote to Jacob Benjamin Salutsky, Vladeck's colleague at the Jewish Socialist Federation, claiming
Baruch_Charney_Vladeck
American agricultural engineer and communist activist
botched illegal abortion, on September 27, 1923.[citation needed] Benjamin Gitlow luridly wrote of a love triangle between Cris, Party national secretary
Harold_Ware
resolution that would have expressed sympathy for James Larkin and Benjamin Gitlow, who were both serving unrelated prison sentences. The convention also
1920 Socialist National Convention
1920_Socialist_National_Convention
American Communist Party official (1900–1965)
The primary source of this information, former factional associate Benjamin Gitlow, notes that the burglary of James P. Cannon's residence was conducted
Jack_Stachel
L. Mills 1,276,137 Jacob Panken 83,481 Charles E. Manierre 21,285 Benjamin Gitlow 5,507 Jeremiah D. Crowley 3,553 Lieutenant Governor Edwin Corning 1
1926_New_York_state_election
Political party
their way into the party, including former Communist Party leader Benjamin Gitlow, youth leader and ex-Jay Lovestone supporter Herbert Zam and attorney
Socialist Workers Party (United States)
Socialist_Workers_Party_(United_States)
American lawyer and legal scholar and activist
co-founder Benjamin Gitlow for half a decade. In 1920, Nelles and Murray C. Bernay served of counsel to defend Gitlow in People vs. Gitlow on behalf of
Walter_Nelles
Louis Waldman, Joseph Whitehorn, Jacob Panken, Abraham Shiplacoff, William Karlin, Samuel Orr, Charles B. Garfinkel, Benjamin Gitlow, and Joseph A. Weil.
1917 New York City mayoral election
1917_New_York_City_mayoral_election
American artist
Vorse, pg. 183. Mickenberg and Nel, Tales for Little Rebels, pg. 26. Benjamin Gitlow, I Confess: The Truth About American Communism. New York: E.P. Dutton
Lydia_Gibson
American philosopher, inventor, musician, and author (1798–1874)
spectrum, influencing prominent intellectuals such as Herbert Spencer, Benjamin Tucker, Émile Armand, and John Stuart Mill. By the 20th century, he was
Josiah_Warren
Hungarian politician (1886–1938)
clutches of the police who raided the gathering. Future factional ally Benjamin Gitlow later recalled the initial impression which Pepper made upon him when
John_Pepper
nominated The Workers Party nominated William Z. Foster for president and Benjamin Gitlow for vice president. The provisional nominees of the Farmer–Labor Party
1924 Farmer–Labor National Convention
1924_Farmer–Labor_National_Convention
American anarchist activist (1946–1986)
Bois Albert Einstein James W. Ford William Z. Foster Luigi Galleani Benjamin Gitlow Emma Goldman William Batchelder Greene Gus Hall Michael Harrington
Kuwasi_Balagoon
Lovestoneites led by Benjamin Gitlow called the Workers Communist League. After being expelled the group around Field and Kaldis joined Gitlow's group, which
Fieldites
September 28, 1854 Google Books The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 32; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)] De Witt Clinton and the Rise
New York gubernatorial elections
New_York_gubernatorial_elections
Pioneering U.S. labor action
Bois Albert Einstein James W. Ford William Z. Foster Luigi Galleani Benjamin Gitlow Emma Goldman William Batchelder Greene Gus Hall Michael Harrington
1877_St._Louis_general_strike
American publisher
Executive Secretary. At the 6th National Convention of March 1929, when Benjamin Gitlow became executive secretary, Trachtenberg was elected as an alternate
Alexander_Trachtenberg
American communist politician and labor leader (1897–1985)
In the summer of 1929, following the removal of Jay Lovestone and Benjamin Gitlow from the leadership of the Communist Party, Weinstone was added to
William_Weinstone
American Communist leader
takeover to illustrate what life under Soviet conquest might be like. Benjamin Gitlow, twice CPUSA vice-presidential candidate (1924, 1928), played the role
Joseph_Zack_Kornfeder
American socialist politician (1894–1979)
Socialist World (Chicago), vol. 1, no. 5 (November 15, 1920), pp. 4–5. Benjamin Gitlow, founding member of the Communist Party USA "Young People's Socialist
William_F._Kruse
20th-century Communist Party USA national executive in charge of labor
Eugene Dennis, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, James W. Ford, Gilbert Green, Benjamin J. Davis Jr., Morris Childs, Robert G. Thompson, William Schneiderman,
Roy_Hudson
Defunct United States left wing organization
Ernst, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, William Z. Foster, Lewis Gannett, Benjamin Gitlow, Clinton S. Golden, James Weldon Johnson, Freda Kirchwey, Clarina Michelson
Garland_Fund
Labor lawyer and spy (1898–1966)
transcripts into the record that included 1938 testimony by Earl Browder, Benjamin Gitlow, and Jay Lovestone among others, all about Mink. Russell documented
Leon_Josephson
against Winitsky and his comrades charged under the New York law — Benjamin Gitlow, who preceded him, as well as James Larkin, Isaac Ferguson, and C.E
Harry_Winitsky
American anarchist (1812–1886)
Bois Albert Einstein James W. Ford William Z. Foster Luigi Galleani Benjamin Gitlow Emma Goldman William Batchelder Greene Gus Hall Michael Harrington
Stephen_Pearl_Andrews
Herbert Hoover & Charles Curtis Republican Party William Z. Foster & Benjamin Gitlow Communist Party Cassie J. Pomeroy Mrs. J. Andrew West Bradford Duncan
1928 United States presidential election in Arizona
1928_United_States_presidential_election_in_Arizona
New York 906 0.17% 0 0.00% Communist William Z. Foster of Massachusetts Benjamin Gitlow of New York 636 0.12% 0 0.00% Total 828,348 100.00% 8 100.00%
1928 United States presidential election in Maryland
1928_United_States_presidential_election_in_Maryland
Political organization in the United States
Bois Albert Einstein James W. Ford William Z. Foster Luigi Galleani Benjamin Gitlow Emma Goldman William Batchelder Greene Gus Hall Michael Harrington
Black_Socialists_in_America
American politician (1886–1949)
Feigenbaum was born on Christmas Day 1886, in Antwerp, Belgium, the son of Benjamin Feigenbaum and Matilda (Kaminsky) Feigenbaum, both originally from Warsaw
William_M._Feigenbaum
American politician (1910–1972)
Organizations (CIO) union. On October 17, 1939, former Party co-founder Benjamin Gitlow named Albertson as a Party leader. In 1942, he served a year as secretary
William_Albertson
Jacob Panken (Socialist) 2.87% Charles Manierre (Prohibition) 0.73% Benjamin Gitlow (Workers) 0.19% Jeremiah D. Crowley (Socialist Labor) 0.12% North Dakota
1926 United States gubernatorial elections
1926_United_States_gubernatorial_elections
1800s French-American utopian movement
two days later. The new leader became a thirty-two-year-old lawyer named Benjamin Mercadier. On February 15, 1858, a group of 151 Icarians took possession
Icarians
ticket for the 1928 Presidential Election of William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, Crouch toured the South but found little support except in North Carolina
Paul_Crouch_(activist)
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