William Z. Foster
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican labor organizer and Communist politician (1881-1961)
William Z. Foster was a radical American labor organizer and Communist politician, whose career included serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1945 to 1957.
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Foster as a railroad worker before the First World War
Foster, undated
Foster gives a speech to packinghouse workers
Foster (right) during the Steel Strike of 1919
Foster (in box, right, behind soldier's shoulder), Philip Murray, James H. Maurer and Mother Jones surrounded by steel workers and unionists in uniform during the Steel Strike of 1919
Foster c. 1923
Presidential candidate William Z. Foster with Vice Presidential candidate Benjamin Gitlow at a Workers Party rally at Madison Square Garden, 1924 or 1928Politicians from United States 6
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William Z. Foster was a radical American labor organizer and Communist politician, whose career included serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1945 to 1957. He was previously a member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, leading the drive to organize packinghouse industry workers during World War I and the steel strike of 1919.
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