Lovell, Frank

Frank Lovell was born on July 24, 1913, in Ipava, Illinois. Drawn into the socialist movement after the San Francisco general strike, he joined the Workers Party of the United States in 1935. He became a seaman and an organizer for the Sailor's Union of the Pacific. In 1938 Lovell was a founding member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), and over the next five decades served on national leadership and wrote extensively for its publications on labor issues and other matters. Under the pen name Frederick Lang he authored a study of seamen's unionism Maritime! (Pioneer Publishers, 1943). In Portland, Oregon, in the late 1940s he edited The Defender, a rank-and-file paper for the maritime industry. In the early 1950s Lovell moved to Detroit where he ran for Governor of Michigan on the SWP ticket in 1954, 1958 and 1964. In the late 1960s Lovell moved to New York City, and served as the SWP's trade union director. In 1981 Lovell was expelled from the SWP. In December 1983 Lovell initiated the Bulletin in Defense of Marxism. Lovell was a leading figure of the Fourth Internationalist Tendency (1983-1992). In his final years he gave his attention to the Thomas Giunta Living Trust, named after a veteran Trotskyist seaman. Lovell died on May 1, 1998.

From the description of Papers, 1953-1997 (bulk 1970-1997). (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58759217

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