Earl Browder
Earl Russell Browder was an American political activist, functionary and leader of the Communist Party USA . Browder is best remembered as the General Secretary of the CPUSA during the 1930s and first half of the 1940s.
Earl Browder was born in Wichita, Kansas on May 20, 1891, the eighth child of an Americanborn father sympathetic to populism. He joined the Socialist Party of America in Wichita in 1907 at the age ofand remained in that organization until the party split of 1912, when many of the groups syndicalistically oriented members exited the organization in response to the addition of an antisabotage clause to the party constitution and the recall of National Executive Committeeman William Big Bill Haywood. Historian Theodore Draper notes that Browder was influenced by an offshoot of the syndicalist movement which believed in working in the AF of L . This ideological orientation brought the young Browder into contact with William Z. Foster, founder of an organization called the Syndicalist League of North America which was based upon similar policies and James P. Cannon, an IWW adherent from Kansas.
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