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Gus Hall (1910 - 2000 RIP) April 1985 Air date You Tube CompressionThis forum post is dated 08/07/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. Oklahoma - Socialist Workers Party
| Gus Hall (1910 - 2000 RIP) April 1985 Air date You Tube Compression Gus Hall (October 8, 1910 October 13, 2000) was a leader of the Communist Party USA and its four-time US presidential candidate.[1] As a labor leader, Hall was closely associated with the so-called "Little Steel" Strike of 1937, an effort to unionize the nation's smaller, regional steel manufacturers.[2] Hall was born Arvo Gustav Halberg to Finnish parents in Cherry, a rural community on Northern Minnesota's Iron Range. Hall's parents had been involved in the Industrial Workers of the World and were founding members of the Communist Party.[1] At 15, Hall left school and went to work in the North Woods lumber camps, where he spent much time studying Marxism. At 17, he joined the Communist Party and became an organizer for the Young Communist League. In 1931, Hall travelled to the Soviet Union spending two years at the Lenin Institute in Moscow.[1] Hall volunteered for the US Navy when World War II broke out, serving as a machinist in Guam. He was honorably discharged March 6, 1946.[1] After his return, he was elected to the National Executive board of the American Communist Party.Indictment during the 'Red Scare' On July 22, 1948 Hall and 11 other Communist Party leaders were indicted under the Smith Act on charges of "conspiracy to teach and advocate the overthrow of the US government by force and violence." Hall spent eight years in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.[1] The US Supreme Court later struck down the Smith Act as unconstitutional. After his release, Hall <b>...</b> |
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