Bert, Erik.

BIOGHIST REQUIRED Erik Bert was the pseudonym of Herbert Joseph Putz, -1981, (Columbia B.A., 1926, M.A., 1927), Marxist scholar and editor of "The Producers News" and the "Farmers National Weekly" for 40 years. He served on the editorial board of "The Daily Worker" and "The Daily World." He contributed many articles to "Political Affairs," the theoretical journal of the U.S. Communist Party, on agrarian reform, communism and Communist Party conferences, Czechoslovakia in 1968, civil rights, capitalism, and on other economic subjects.

From the guide to the Erik Bert Papers, 1924-1980., (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, )