Industrial Workers of the World, National Textile Workers Union
Notable work
Proletarian Journey: New England, Gastonia, Moscow (1938)
Political party
Socialist Party of America, Communist Party of the USA
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.[1] 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 famine in Ukraine, was disparaged and resisted by many of his erstwhile supporters.[2]
The New York Times remained committed to what it has since acknowledged was the "tendentious" reporting of Soviet achievements by its Pulitzer Prize-winning Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty.[3] It was left first to Forverts, the Yiddish-language version of a New York socialist daily, and then, nationwide, to the right-wing Hearst Press to publish Beal's accounts.
In his later memoirs, Beal's disillusion with communism extended to his experience as a labor organizer with the Communist Party in the United States and with what he concluded had been the party's calculated sacrifice of his, and his co-defendants', interests in their Gastonia trial.
^"Gastonia Strikers Get Long Terms," Salem Statesman-Journal, Nov. 5, 1929, p. 3.
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...
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more than 50 people witnessed it. Meanwhile, her fellow NTWU organizer FredBeal and six other comrades were tried and convicted of conspiracy in the unsolved...
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worked, unified piece of work." The American Communist and labor organizer FredBeal described Gold in Moscow in the early thirties as "sentimental revolutionist"...
holds Beal on old score, Gastonia strike leader menaced" (PDF). Socialist Appeal. January 29, 1938. p. 1. Retrieved January 4, 2021. Beal, Fred Erwin...
1938, Amelie served on a committee for the defense of FredBeal. Returned from the Soviet Union, Beal was facing recommittal in North Carolina where in 1929...
August; Sophie Melvin (future wife of Simon Gerson) traveled there to join FredBeal in organizing strikers on behalf of the Communist Party controlled National...
to Beal and five co-defendants being convicted of second-degree murder in the death of the local police chief. In the novel (completed before Beal and...
flee to the Soviet Union. Beal saw Josephson in Moscow several times and knew him to be a GPU agent. After some years, Beal returned to the States, although...
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