George Hardy letters to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 1954

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George Hardy letters to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 1954

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In 1954 British labor activist and Communist organizer George Hardy wrote to his American colleague Elizabeth Gurley Flynn to renew their acquaintance, express support for her testimony at her recent trial, and discuss the labor struggles in the United States and Great Britain.

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Hardy, George, 1884-1966

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"George Hardy," Dictionary of Labour Biography, volume XI (New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2003). pp. 98-109. Obituary. Labour Monthly, July 1966, http://www.unz.org/Pub/LabourMonthly-1966jul-00343a02 (accessed November 9, 2012). "Elizabeth Gurley Flynn." Gale Biography in Context. http://ic.galegroup.com (accessed November 9, 2012). Labor activist and communist organizer George Hardy was born on July 26, 1884, in Cottingham, Yorkshire, Great Britain. ...

Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 1890-1964

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was an agitator and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and a Communist Party (CP) official. Flynn was an organizer in major strikes in Lawrence, Massachusetts and Paterson and Passaic, New Jersey. She saw labor court trials as important extensions of organizing, and participated in trials in Missoula, Montana (1908), and Spokane, Washington (1909-1910). As part of her defense work she created the Workers’ Defense League, an organization to fight for th...