May Day Greetings Cinco de Mayo Greetings
May Day Greetings and Cinco de Mayo Greetings have been published by CPUSA newspapers for decades. These are "greetings" from their members, supporters, and possible dupes for the marxist traditional labor holiday, May Day (May 1st) and later for Mexican Independence Day, Cinco de Mayo (May 5th).
The lists of May Day greetings are a valuable source for identifying CPUSA members, supporters, and some possible dupes, though anyone who allowed their name to be put into a "greeting" notice/ad in a CPUSA newspaper would have been well aware of who they were assocating with.
No name should automatically be assumed to be a member of the CPUSA. Links may prove CPUSA identifications from other citations for that name in the database, but it would be unwise to automatically attribute membership to them on the basis of just their inclusion on a CPUSA newspaper notice/greeting/ad.
Greetings by State
The following is a list of pages with May Day Greetings listed by their year of publishing:
- Arizona
- California: Northern
- Illinois
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota and the Dakotas
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania: Eastern
- Wisconsin
1993
A full two-page list of greetings from CPUSA members and supporters appeared in a May 1993 Special Supplement to the People's Weekly World. This supplement was not given a specific date of issue but usually appeared in a late April or early May edition. The greeting text read as follows,
- "May Day Greetings to workers everywhere fighting for their unions and their jobs...Greyhound drivers who have won their three-year strike... Coal miners now on strike... and San Diego drywall strikers... Trinity Steel strikers in Bessemer, Alabama... And many others across the country.
- We, the undersigned, petition President Clinton and the 103rd Congress to achieve the following:
- Jobs for all job-seekers
- Stop the job-destroying North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA
- Affirmative Action to end race and sex discrimination
- A single-payer national health care system like Canada's
- A $150 billion 'peace dividend' and fair taxation of big business tax cheats
- Outlaw employers use of scabs."
The following sent their greetings:
- M. Vito - Miami, Florida - Magli Vito, head of the CPUSA's Jewish Cultural Center in Miami
- Henny Friedman - Miami, Florida and
- Izzy Friedman - Miami, Florida
- Adele Lapin - Miami, Florida
- Max Fishgold - Miami, Florida
- Dave Guterman - Miami, Florida
- Elaine Day - Miami, Florida
- Ann Schaefer - Miami, Florida
- Vera Anderson -- Miami, Florida
- Bertha Yogman - Miami, Florida
- Hy Hollis - Miami, Florida
- Chester L. Guinn - United Methodist Church, Des Moines, Iowa
- Thomas J. Walsh - Astoria, New York
- Charlie Carlson - Burlington,, Vermont
- Judi Ann Alberti - California
- Karl A. Grossenbacher - California
- Joelle Fishman - New Haven, Connecticut - CPUSA
- Art Perlo - New Haven, Connecticut
- Steve Montoya - Westminster, Colorado
- Steve Montoya - Westminster, Colorado
- Armando Ramirez - Detroit, Michigan - CPUSA
- Angelo Deitos - Detroit, Michigan
- Lasker Smith - Detroit, Michigan - CPUSA
- Wendell Addington - Detroit, Michigan - CPUSA
- Lee Cain - Detroit, Michigan - CPUSA
- Steve Noffke - Detroit, Michigan - CPUSA
- Jim Pita - Detroit, Michigan
- Asata Msalii-Tigrai - Providence, Rhode Island (RI)
- Andrew Kashyap - Martin Luther King Coalition Against Racism - Providence, RI
- Henry Shelton - George Wiley Center - Pawtucket, RI
- Jim Tull - R.I. Right to Housing Coalition - Providence, RI
- Raymond Neirinckx - Communist Party of Rhode Island - Providence, RI - CPUSA
- Paul Carlin - Green Party GP - South Bend, Indiana (IND)
- Jimmy Boyd - Green Party GP - South Bend, IND
- Pat Ruff - Green Party - South Bend, IND
- Gino Dalessi - Green Party - South Bend, IND
- Ernie Zeno - Green Party - South Bend, IND
- Larry Hampshire - Green Party - South Bend, IND
- Gene Roy - Green Party - South Bend, IND
- Walter West - Green Party - South Bend, IND
- Wes Hilligos - Green Party - South Bend, IND
- Jamie Williams - Green Party - South Bend, IND
- Harrison Fisher - Green Party - South Bend, IND
- Pete Harstad - Green Party - South Bend, IND
- Don Kemp - Green Party - South Bend, IND
- Don Crickmore - Green Party - South Bend, IND
- James Hagerty - Green Party - South Bend, IND
- Larry McGurty - Chicago, ILL - CPUSA
- Millie McGurty - Chicago, ILL
- Gertrude Berger - Chicago, ILL
- Lance Cohn - Chicago, ILL
- Evangeline Swan - Chicago, ILL
- Ruth Shriman - Chicago, ILL - Chicago Peace Council, etc
- Friend of the PWW - Chicago, ILL
- Frank Lumpkin - Wisconsin Steelworkers - Chicago, Ill - CPUSA
- Scott Marshall - Chicago, ILL - CPUSA leader in Chicago and Illinois
- Ken Appelhans - SEIU, 1199 SEIU, 1199 aka Local 1199, Chicago, ILL - CPUSA
- Paul Parten - SEIU, 1199, Chicago, ILL
- Bill Mackovich - SEIU, 1199, Chicago, ILL
- Alex Patrick - Minneapolis, Minnesota MN
- Sigrid Sharp - Minneapolis, MN
- Herbert Clements - Minneapolis, MN
- Helvi Savola - Minneapolis, MN - CPUSA
- Jim Brown - Minneapolis, MN
- Jane Kennedy - Minneapolis, MN
- Fred Gaboury - World Federation of Trade Unions WFTU, a Soviet international labor front - Labor Today, a CPUSA paper for its front, TUAD Trade Unionists for Action and Democracy - CPUSA
- Toini Mackie - Minneapolis, MN
- Mark Dunmire - Minneapolis, MN
- Susan Shifrin - New York City (NYC) New York (NY)
- K. Paul Ebert - Duluth MN
- Lydia Karhu - Cosmopolis Washington - a veteran financial contributor to the CPUSA and its publications
- John Stanford - San Antonio Texas (TX)
- Frank Witte - War Resisters League WRL Phoenix Arizona (AZ)
- Joe Oliver - Los Angeles California (CA)
- Steve Regalado - Los Angeles, CA
- Flo Regalado - Los Angeles, CA
- Jarvis Tyner - New York City, New York - longtime leader of the CPUSA
- Betty Duimovich - Great Falls, Montana (MT) - longtime CPUSA
- Selma Novick - Philadelphia Pennsylvania (PA)
- Joseph F. Hancock - UFCW local 770 UFCW - Los Angeles, CA
- Steve Otto - Witchita Kansas (KS)
- Carolyn Rummel - Newspaper Guild Local 3 [{New Jersey]] NJ - an editor of the PWW, CPUSA member
- Jim West - Hunger March Veteran (i.e. 1930's), Jersey City, NJ - CPUSA
- Audrey West - Jersey City Chapter, U.S. Peace Council USPC, NJ - CPUSA
- Lee Broughton - Newark Delaware (DE)
- Lee Beardsley - Washington
- Ellie B. Belew - Washington
- Russell V. Brodine - Washington - CPUSA
- Virginia W. Brodine - Washington - CPUSA leader
- Margaret Bryant - Washington
- Cordy D. Cooke RN - Washington
- Lillian Feist - Washington
- Cindy Gregory - Washington
- Rose Harris - Washington
- Irene B. Hull - Washington - CPUSA
- Essie M. Johnson - Washington
- Doug Kilgore- Washington
- B. J. Mangaoang - Washington - CPUSA leader
- Hellen Nelson - Washington
- Lonnie Nelson - Washington
- Thorun Robel - Washington - CPUSA
- Vi Russell - Washington
- Roger Scales - Washington
- Harriet Walden - Washington
- Donald N. Wheeler - Washington - CPUSA
- Chris Williams - Washington
- Ed Williams - Washington
- Susan Willis-Johnson - Washington
- Elizabeth Yates - Washington
- B. Ellison - Washington
- Hilja Wamsley - East Point Michigan
- Dave Kolodoff - RI
- Rose Goldberg - Brooklyn NY
- Jose Palacios - Editor, Nuestro Mundo the Spanish section of the PWW - CPUSA
- Joe Grinnell - Iowa - writer of letters to the editor, CP newspapers
- Tom Mohan - Iowa
- Marshall Kerr - Iowa
- Ed Bryant - Iowa
- Ray Teeple - Iowa - writer of letters to the editor, CPUSA newspapers
- Klaudia Larson - Iowa
- Joe Henderson - Baltimore Maryland (MD) - CP leader in Baltimore
- Margaret Baldridge - Baltimore, MD - CPUSA
- Jim Baldridge - Baltimore, MD - CPUSA
- Les Bayless - Baltimore, MD - Baltimore CPUSA leader (1990's-2000's)
- Tim Wheeler - Baltimore, Md - Baltimore CPUSA leader, writer and later editor of the People's Weekly World
- Joyce P. Wheeler - Baltimore, MD - CPUSA, wife of Tim Wheeler, retired teacher
- Susan Wheeler - Baltimore, MD - CPUSA who became a CPUSA leader in Oregon. A sister of Tim Wheeler. See her page for family lineages.
- Nick Wheeler - Baltimore, MD, poss. YCL or CPUSA, probable son of Tim Wheeler
- Morgan P. Wheeler - Baltimore, MD, possible YCL or CPUSA, probable son of Tim Wheeler (CITATIONS NEEDED)
- Fred Marks - Baltimore, MD
- Carl Lewis - Baltimore, MD
- Jacob Green - Baltimore, MD, once chairman of the Baltimore/MD CP
- Howard Silverberg - Baltimore, MD., longtime leader of the CPUSA in Baltimore (see his KW page for full details)
- Gus Hall -Chair, Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
- John Bachtell - Chair, Communist Party of New York New York CP
- Terrie Albano - Young Communist League USA YCL - Also CPUSA
- George Meyers - (Baltimore) MD - CPUSA leader
- Lew Moroze - Bergenfield, NJ - CPUSA, Jewish Commission, CPUSA Jewish Affairs magazine
- Daisy Maddox - Bronx NY
- Sam Webb - Secretary, Labor Commission, CPUSA - Labor Commission - CPUSA, later chairman of the CPUSA
- Rose Goldberg - New York, NY
- Bob Beachman - Brooklyn, NY
- William T. Harvey - Costa Mesta CA
- Martha Acevedo - San Francisco, CA
- Juan Lopez - San Francisco, CA
- Richard Fullenbaum - San Francisco, CA
- Louise Koszalka - PFT, East Lansdowne, PA
- Dorothy Ferebee - Philadelphia PA
- Anthony Monteiro - Philadelphia, PA - CPUSA leader
- Cozette Ferron - Philadelphia, PA
- Bob Bamble - Glenolden, PA
- Kennieth Melvin Heard (sic) Kenneth Melvin Heard - PA
- Barbara Jean Hope - PA - contributing columnist to CPUSA papers for many year; June 26, 1999 listed as "Contributors" to the PWW, P. 12, PWW staff box. Also a writer for the CPUSA's theoretical journal "Political Affairs", 1999.
- Elsie Dickerson - PA - leader of the Eastern Pennsylvania/Delaware CPUSA
- Irving C. Jones - PA
- Shirlie Hall - PA
- George Edwards - Pittsburgh, PA - CPUSA
- Denise Winebrenner - Pittsburgh, PA - married George Edwards - CPUSA
- Anita Torrez - ILGWU Local 277 ILGWU, Arizona (AZ)- CPUSA
- Robert G. Camwell - AFGE Local 495, AZ; Camwell, Tucson AZ, had a letter in the People's Weekly World, 9/24/94, Page 16, entitled "Fightback vs. baseball owners"
- Steve Valencia - IBEW, AZ
- Philip Gentry - TCU Local 2506, AZ
- Lorenzo Torrez - Soar District 39, AZ - CPUSA leader
- Wally Carpenter - Cleveland, Ohio
- Jeff Avery - Elyria, Ohio
- Norbert Ward - Columbus, Ohio
- Olaf Prufer - Kent, Ohio
- Roz Sims - Youngstown, Ohio
- Bruce Bostick - Lorain, Ohio - CPUSA
- Frank Colon - Cleveland, Ohio
- Daisy Colon - Cleveland, Ohio
- Ann Pallotta - Cleveland, Ohio
- Rick Nagin - Cleveland, Ohio - Ohio CPUSA organizer
- Richard Giovanoni - Newspaper Guild Local 3, NY - CPUSA, PWW writer
- Clyde Appleton - AZ
- Cathy Beecher - AZ
- Joe Bernick - CPUSA
- Marcus Bloom - AZ
- Linda Bohlke - AZ
- Chuck Booker - AZ
- Anne Brenner - AZ
- Rebeca Cartes Rebecca Cartes - AZ
- Doreen Fish - AZ
- Brian Flagg - AZ
- Henry Heinz - AZ
- Inez Heinz - AZ
- James Jordan - AZ
- Kansas - AZ
- Jim Kincaid - AZ
- Michael Komorowski - AZ
- Dorothy Livingston - AZ
- Mary MacEwan - AZ
- Eduardo Medina - AZ
- Jon Miles - AZ
- Helen Moloney - AZ
- Debbie Neufeldt - AZ
- David Scott Penn - AZ
- Debbie Pettit - AZ
- George Pettit - AZ
- Nancy Pontius - AZ
- Judy Rosen - AZ
- Jeanne Scanlon - AZ
- Andy Silverman - AZ
- Elizabeth Siqueiros - AZ
- Rosemary Solarez - AZ
- Carl Stelman - AZ
- Vera Terrell - AZ
- Carolyn Trowbridge - AZ
- Ilaann White - AZ
- Jean Witte - AZ
- Ray Siqueiros - AZ, and
- Sandra Siqueiros - AZ, and
- Humberto Siqueiros - AZ
- Martina Gangl Curl - Oregon
- william H. Curl - Ore
- Everett Anttila - Ore
- Marina Anttila - Ore
- Mercedes Anttila - Ore
- Susan Wheeler - Ore - leader of the Oregon CP
- John Bouiss - Ore
- Mike Klopfenstein - Ore
- Garth Johnston - Ore
- Ann Chess Campbell - Ore
- Charles Cisco - Ore
- Julie Fox - Ore
- E. May - Ore
- Alan K. Buck - Ore
- Paul Orr - Ore, CPUSA
- Henry Millstein - Ore
- Frank Soifer - Ore, CPUSA leader in Oregon
- John Bankcroft - Ore
- Helen Sinclair - Ore, and
- F.B. Sinclair - Ore
- - Organizations listed for identification purposes only END OF LIST
Miscellaneous names listed:
- Carole Collier - Greetings from, open CPUSA leader from Florida
- People's Weekly World - Staff - greetings to Prompt Press, Camden, NJ
- Bonnie Lee Burnham - San Mateo, CA
- Ellen Perlo - wife of id. Soviet spy Victor Perlo
- Vic - longtime CPUSA member and id. member of a Soviet spy ring during WW2
- Hope - "In Memory of Charles Dewey and the following four names
- Ray Haskell
- Cass Novak
- Angelo Deitos
- Tom Pollard
- Helen Winter - "In Loving Memory of Carl Winter - her husband and CPUSA writer, and
- Michele Artt - wife of Steve Artt - CPUSA
- Steve Artt
- Natalie Newhoff - re "Andrew Newhoff, "organizing People's Publishing Association
- Sophie Gerson - CPUSA
- Si Gerson - CPUSA
1998
The following sent greetings with the following message,
- "May Day 1998 People's Weekly World Special Supplement: Solidarity greetings to workers everywhere from the readers and staff of the World. Onward to building a stronger labor and people's movement that will be victorious over the right wing in the '98 elections."
- Lydia S. Karhu - WA
- Earl Harju - CA
- Ms. Beatrice Ellison - NY
- Dave Kay - RI (KW: Dave Kay also had a greeting box in the Sept. 4, 1999 Labor Day Supplement of PWW, Pg. E)
- Kevin Lindemann - IL Illinois (Lindemann, Winfield Illinois, had a letter in the PWW, 1/22/2000, P. 12 "Ask and it's done" requesting more articles by Bill Meyer on films, including for Political Affairs, the theoretical journal of the CPUSA
- Cathleen Campo - IL Illinois
- The Mohney-Vagos - PA
- Diane Mohney - PA
- John Vago - PA
- John Stanford - TX
- Hilja Wamsley - MI
- Bill McIntyre - RI
- Bill Hogan - IL Illinois - by 1999, an open member of the CPUSA
- Mike Giocondo - IL, Illinois, open CPUSA leader, PWW writer
- Eve Swan - IL, Illinois
- Jo - IL, Illinois
- Lance Cohn - IL Illinois
- Shelby Richardson - IL, Illinois
- Jim Lange - IL, Illinois
- Al Ellis - IL, Illinois
- Pat Ellis - IL, Illinois
- Scott Marshall - IL, Illinois, open leader of the Illinois CP
- Roberta Wood - IL, Illinois, id. CPUSA member; wife of Scott Marshall
- Megan Marshall - IL, Illinois
- Art & Eva - IL, Illinois
- Josh Wishinsky - ILL, Illinois
- Milly McGurty - IL, Illinois
- Larry McGurty - IL, Illinois, id. CPUSA
- Barbara Russum - IL, Illinois
- Lonnie Brigham - IL, Illinois
- Arlene Brigham - IL, Illinois
- Cliff Howard - IL, Illinois
- Willie Kitchen - IL, Illinois
- Henry Garcia - IL, Illinois
- Frank Lumpkin - IL, Illinois, open Illinois CP leader
- Beatrice Lumpkin - open Ill. CPUSA member
- M. Engelberg - CT
- Sid Taylor - FL, Florida open CPUSA leader
- Anne Taylor - FL
- Edward Clinch - PA, Pennsylvania
- Earl W. Keihl, Sr - PA [KW: A Earl Keihl - Director, District 4, United Furniture Workers of America, showed up as an "endorser" of the Hector Marroquin Appeal for Asylum in the late 1970's. It is not known at present if they are the same individual or even related. See "SWP Fronts" for this list).
- Marty Sawma - NY New York
- Carole Collier - FL
- John Reed Club - St. Petersburg FL
- Michael Shepler - CA California
- Bernard Brown - MD Maryland
- Jacob Green - MD , longtime open Chairman of the Maryland CP
- Ted Gilbert - MD, veteran CPUSA supporter
- Sam Schmerler - MD, id. CPUSA member since the 1950's (HCUA hearings on CP and Baltimore/Md, 1950s')
- Howard Silverberg - MD - longtime CPUSA supporter
- George Meyers - A.C.T.O.R, MD, longtime Maryland and national CPUSA leader, esp. in their Labor Commission (former president of the Maryland CIO. A long article on Meyers and identified Soviet spy Victor Perlo appeared in the PWW, Jan. 22, 2000 edition, PP. 10-11, "In honor of George Meyers and Victor Perlo".
- Helen Winter - MI, Michigan. longtime CPUSA member and newspaper administrator (PWW, Labor Day Supplement 9/04/99)
- Carl Reinstein - MI
- Stella Reinstein - MI (both Reinsteins names appeared in the Sept. 4, 1999, Labor Day Supplement to the PWW, P. F)
- Philip Van Gelder - MD
2002
The following greetings were published in the May 4, 2002 Issue of the Peoples Weekly World:
Arizona
"Arizona's progressive community extends May Day and Cinco de Mayo greetings to all our friends across the country. We commit ouselves to resist the Bush administration's drive for ever-increaing military spending and a neverending state of war. We must redouble our efforts to build a broad people's coalition that will drive the ultra-right out of Congress next November".
- Frank M. Afflitto
- Betty Alpert
- Clyde Appleton
- Rolande Baker
- Cahty Beecher
- Leah Berger
- Joe Bernick - open CPUSA member and
- Cat Stelman
- Pat Birnie and
- Betty Schroeder
- Jack Blawis - open CPUSA member
- Anne Brenner and William Brenner
- David Brock - At this time, KW does not know if this is the same David Brock who is associated with the Soros-funded Media Matters for America
- Danika Brown and Curtiss Fessee
- Don Buchanan
- Rebeca Cartes
- Bob Camwell and Doreen Fish
- Wiliam Camwell
- Sandy Davenport
- Karl Dennis
- Andrew De Sousa
- Richard Dillon
- Howie Druan
- Janis Eisenstark
- Kristen Essex
- Armando Faustini
- Gregory Feesl
- Brian Flagg
- Chris Ford
- Sean Fowlkes
- Paul Gattone - writer of letters to the PWW CP newspaper
- Phil Gentry
- Edmond E. Gonzales, Sr.
- Michael Gray
- James Griffin
- James Hannley
- Rosemary Hallinan
- Andrew Hanson and Anne Echeverria
- Lem Harris - open CPUSA labor leader
- Stan Hemry
- David Higham
- Jeff Imig and Juliana Piccillo
- Frank Jents
- Mansur Johnson
- Herman Kammerman
- Michael Kreta
- Marie LeMae
- Deb Livingston
- Dorothy Livingston
- Suzannah Maclay
- Muriel McComiskey
- Rob McElwain
- Jon Miles
- Damon Miller
- Raquel Mogollon and James Jordan
- Laro Nicol
- Angie Ochoa
- Lyle Paulsen
- George Pettit
- Nancy Pontius
- Chris Rojas
- Charley Salaz
- Kyrsten Sinema - a member of the Arizona State legislature running for the U.S. Congress in 2012
- Rosemary Solarez and Billy Cummings
- Brian Stevens
- Olga Strickland
- Laura Tabili
- Susan Thorpe
- Lorenzo Torrez and Anita Torrez - Lorenzo is the CPUSA organizer for Arizona
- Carolyn Trowbridge and Keith Bagwell
- Steve Valencia
- Steve Wheaton
- Susan Willis
- Arizona Peace Council
- Casa Maria / Catholic Worker
- East Valley Club CPUSA
- Mano-a-Mano USA/Cuba
- Salt of the Earth Labor College - mainly a project of the CPUSA and supporters
- Southern Arizona People's Law Center
- Tucson Club CPUSA
- Jim Walsh
- Jane Martin and Bob Vint
"Si' se puede!"
Massachusetts
- "From friends and comrades of Massachusetts to workers of the world..."
- Laura Ross - longtime an open CPUSA leader in Massachusetts
- Gary Dotterman
- Anne Burlak Timpson - longtime CPUSA leader
- Jose Cruz - possibly the same as one of the PWW editors Jose A. Cruz
- Maja Johnson
- Al Sargis
- Tilly Teixeira
- Nicholas H. Burlak
- James Millard
- Ed Teixeira - open CPUSA leader
- Gary Hicks
- Wadi'h Halabi - writer for the CPUSA newspapers
- Rev. Eugene H. Adams
- The Boston Area Club - Boston
- Ron and Nell
Other Greetings
- Rogers Park Club - Chicago, greetings
- Northern Westchester Club - possibly Westchester County, New York
- The Center for Marxist Education, 550 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge Massachusetts.
- Washington Heights-Harlem Club - New York City
May Day and Cinco de Mayo greetings" - possibly from Pennsylvania:
- Frances Siegel
- John Vago - an old CPUSA member
- Diane Mohney - id. CPUSA
- Leo H. Werner
- Mark A. Luciano
- William Henry Curl
- Earl W. Keihl, Sr.
- Roy Tull
- Hubert Woodard
- Edith C. Woodard
- Young Communist League of Chicago - Chicago
In memory of Laura Weinstein 1911-2002:
In memory of Andrew R. Newhoff, who struggled all his life to give the working people a voice, the Newhoff family congratulates the PWW on May Day:
Many of these names also appeared in the May 1, 2009 May Day/Cinco de Mayo greetings that appeared in the Peoples Weekly World.
KeyWiki Note: Use John Vago's name as a link to this ad's signers until the ad can be transferred to this page.