Fred Beal
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title:
Fred Beal
text:
Fred Erwin Beal (1896–1954) was an American labor-union organizer whose critical reflections on his work and travel in the Soviet Union divided left-wing and liberal opinion. In 1929 he had been a cause célèbre when, in Gastonia, North Carolina, he was convicted in an irregular trial of conspiracy in the strike-related killing of a local police chief. But having escaped to the Soviet Union, his decision in 1933 to return and bear witness to the costs of Stalin's collectivist policies, including
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American labor-union organizer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Beal
date created:
2022-01-02T07:58:24Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T07:49:29Z
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