Nick Jones
Nick Jones was the director of the Boycott Department in the United Farm Workers union in the 1960s and 1970s. He and his wife, Virginia Jones, resigned in 1976 after Nick was accused of organizing a Communist takeover of the union.[1]
“I was flabbergasted,” said Jones. “It demoralized me more than anything else in my whole life.”[2]
Communist Party Affiliation
Quentin Young was close to the Communist Party USA at least until the early 1970s.
- In Chicago on October 27, 1971 - The Presidential Ballroom of the Midland Hotel was packed with more than 400 people last Friday to mark the 8Oth birthday of Wiliam L.Patterson, the man who rocked the world with his charge of genocide against the U.S. imperialists. Spokesmen for the committee sponsoring the banquet told the Daily World that many who had delayed in getting reservations had to be turned away. Veterans of the working class movement said they could not remember an occasion bringing together such a broad spectrum of workers, trade unionists and professionals, in a tribute to a Communist leader.[3]
Audience members included centenarian Jesse Hilton, Dr. Quentin Young, president of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, Sylvia Woods, chairman of the Chicago Committee to Free Angela Davis, Fr. William Hogan, chairman of the Clergy and Laity Concerned, and Obed Lopez, a leader of the Latin-American Defense Organization. Also present were Nick Jones and Virginia Jones, and Roberto Acuna of the United Farmworkers, and Sylvia Kushner, executive secretary of the Chicago Peace Council.
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References
- ↑ Letter of resignation
- ↑ LA Times, January 8, 2006
- ↑ Daily World October 28 1971