Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ( born August 7, 1890 in Concord, New Hampshire; † September 5, 1964 in Moscow) was an American activist in the labor movement and communist politician.

At seventeen Gurley Flynn joined the 1905 founded the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW).

After it was in 1937 after years of commitment occurred for the trade union movement in the Communist party, began a time of exclusion, persecution and imprisonment.

In 1961 she was elected the first female chairman of the National Committee of the Communist Party of the USA. When in 1964 a 14 -year period of litigation was won by the refusal of the issuing of passports, Flynn traveled to the Soviet Union. She died on 5 September 1964; She received a state funeral in Red Square.

Works

The rebel girl

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn of literature

  • "Sabotage - the conscious withdrawal of the workers ' industrial efficiency", Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the IWW Publishing Bureau, Chicago, 1916.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn literature on

  • Rosalyn Baxandall Fraad (eds.): Words on Fire: The Life and Writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1987 )
  • Helen C. Camp: Iron in Her Soul (1995 )

While he was in Salt Lake City in prison wrote Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Joe Hill for the song "The Rebel Girl"

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