Mario Manzardo
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Illinois Communist Party
In 1976 Mario Manzardo was nominated as a candidate for the Illinois Communist Party USA as an elector for the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates of the Communist Party USA, Gus Hall and Jarvis Tyner.[1]
Chicago communist
Born in 1914 in Brooklyn, of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, Harry Gaynor’s family moved to Chicago when he was a child. His father was a tailor and furrier and a member of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union.
Gaynor attended Finger High School in Roseland on Chicago’s South Side. When the Great Depression struck, he had to leave school to help support the family, While working, he met Communist Party USA member Mario Manzardo, who gave him pamphlets and the Daily Worker.
References
- ↑ 1976 Communist Party Electoral Petition.