SCCWP - Communist Party Supporter Sponsors
Communist Party Supporters who were sponsors of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace as listed in the Review of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace which was published by the Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., on April 19, 1949.[1]
Contents
- 1 Supported by the Communist Party USA
- 2 Supported by Individual Communists
- 3 Communist Party Members
- 4 Supporters
- 5 Statement to the President defending the Communist Party
- 6 Statement defending Communist Party
- 7 "We Negro Americans..." Defending the Communist Party
- 8 Miscellaneous activities in support of CPUSA or Young Communist League
- 9 References
Supported by the Communist Party USA
The following sponsors of the SCCWP were supported by the Communist Party USA
- Herbert J. Biberman
- Lillian Hellman
- Lester Cole
- Robert W. Kenny
- W. E. B. DuBois
- Joshua Kunitz
- Albert Einstein
- Corliss Lamont
- Howard Fast
- Ring Lardner
- Arthur Gaeth
- John Howard Lawson
- Robert Gwathmey
- Albert Maltz
- Paul Robeson
- O. John Rogge
- Ben Shahn
- Agnes Smedley
- Dalton Trumbo
- Harry F. Ward
- Ella Winter
Supported by Individual Communists
The following sponsors of the SCCWP were supported by individual Communists
Communist Party Members
The following were either avowed members of the Communist Party USA or their membership cards or party affiliations have been made part of a sworn public record.
- Herbert J. Biberman
- Barbara Giles
- A. B. Magil
- Richard O. Boyer
- William Gropper
- Albert Maltz
- Edwin Berry Burgum
- Langston Hughes
- Carey McWilliams
- J. Edward Bromberg
- Albert E. Kahn
- Paul Robeson
- Allan Chase
- Alfred Kreymborg
- Howard Selsam
- Lester Cole
- Ring Lardner
- Samuel Sillen
- Howard Fast
- John Howard Lawson
- Dalton Trumbo
- Will Geer
The authors of the review observed:
- "In the light of the conspiratorial nature of the Communist Party, the current practice of concealing party membership in most cases, and the numerous front affiliations of some of these sponsors, it is reasonable to assume that many more are secret party members."[1]
Supporters
Signer of Communist Party nominating petition
League of Professional Groups, supporting Communist Party elections
Call for the support of the Communist Party national elections and its candidates
Open letter to President Roosevelt
The following were signatories to an open letter to President Roosevelt, protesting against an attack on the right of the Communist Party USA to use ballot.
Statement to the President defending the Communist Party
The following were signatories to the statement, dated March 5, 1941.
- Thomas Addis
- John A. Kingsbury
- Marc Blitzstein
- Philip Klein
- Antoinette Cannon
- Corliss Lamont
- Aaron Copland
- Donald G. Lothrop
- Henry Pratt Fairchild
- Albert Maltz
- Joseph Fletcher
- Elizabeth McCausland
- Georgia Harkness
- Jack R. McMichael
- Pearl Hart
- Clyde R. Miller
- Ernest R. Hilgard
- Clifford Odets
- W. A. Hunton
- John P. Peters
- Rockwell Kent
- Walter Rautenstrauch
- Bertha C. Reynolds
- Wallingford Riegger
- Paul Robeson
- Howard Selsam
- Herman Shumlin
- Bernhard J. Stern
- Dirk J. Struik
- Eda Lou Walton
- Harry F. Ward
- Colston E. Warne
- Evans A. Worthley
Statement defending Communist Party
The following were signatories to the statements.
April 16, 1947
April 20, 1947
"We Negro Americans..." Defending the Communist Party
The following were signatories of the statement.
Miscellaneous activities in support of CPUSA or Young Communist League
- Herbert Aptheker
- Dashiell Hammett
- John O'Shaughnessy
- Mordecai Bauman
- Charles A. Hill
- Dorothy Parker
- Victor Bernstein
- Ira A. Hirschmann
- Linus Pauling
- Marc Blitzstein
- Lee Elbert Holt
- Helen Phillips
- Richard O. Boyer
- Alphaeus Hunton
- Abraham L. Pomerantz
- George D. Cannon
- David D. Jones
- Bertha C. Reynolds
- Jonah E. Caplan
- Albert E. Kahn
- Paul Robeson
- Aaron Copland
- Robert W. Kenny
- O. John Rogge
- Kyle Crichton
- Rockwell Kent
- Harold Rome
- Jerome Davis
- Alfred Kreymborg
- Norman Cazden
- Adolf Dehn
- Jacob Lawrence
- Rose Russell
- Earl B. Dickerson
- Kenneth Leslie
- Alexander Saxton
- Martha Dodd
- Jack Levine
- Howard Selsam
- W. E. B. DuBois
- Robert Morss Lovett
- Mitchell Siporin
- Jane Dudley
- Abraham B. Magil
- Kenneth Spencer
- James Dugan
- Albert Maltz
- Ernest Thurn
- Howard Fast
- Francis Otto Mathiessen
- Dalton Trumbo
- Sid Finkelstein
- Jack R. McMichael
- Mary Van Kleeck
- Clark Foreman
- Arthur Miller
- Henry A. Wallace
- Will Geer
- Clyde Miller
- Harry F. Ward
- Shirley Graham
- Clifford Odets
- Ella Winter
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Review of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace by the Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., April 19, 1949
