Brode, Fred, d. 1982

The Fred and Laura Brode dedicated their lives to politics from an early age. Fred Brode left Germany, his birthplace, as an economic refugee in 1929 to find work in the United States. He arrived in New York City juse in time to witness the collapse of the Stock Market. For the next decade, like millions of thers, he was unable to find a steady job. He did, however, find a Canadian-born wife, and both became members of a new, anti-Stalinist communist organization, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).

In 1939, still searching for secure employment, the Brodes moved to Houston. Fred subsequently was hired by the Southern Pacific Rainroad, a job he held until his retirement in the mid-1970's.

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