Cammer, Harold

Harold Cammer, 86, Champion of Labor And Rights Lawyer By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER Published: October 25, 1995 Harold I. Cammer, a lawyer who championed the rights of workers, labor unions, accused Communists and victims of racial bigotry, died on Saturday at his home in Mamaroneck, N.Y. He was 86.

In a career that began in 1932 when Mr. Cammer graduated from Harvard Law School and ended some 40 years later with his retirement, Mr. Cammer numbered among his clients major unions like the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the brewery workers', the New York teachers', the furriers', the leather workers' and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters. During the widespread Communist hunts of the 1950's, he defended union officers and teachers, especially in connection with their appearances before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and its counterparts in New York State.

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