Liberal Party of New York
The Liberal Party of New York State was founded in 1944 by former supporters of the American Labor Party led by David Dubinsky because of Communist involvement in the latter organisation.[1]
According to the Forward, the party had strong support from Dubinsky's International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union:
- By the early 1940s, however, garment union chiefs David Dubinsky and Alex Rose had become disgusted with communist infiltration of the ALP. After a three-year battle for control of the ALP, they left in 1944 to found the Liberal Party, allying their powerful unions with prominent liberal intellectuals such as Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and philosopher John Dewey.[2]
People
- Ben Davidson - former secretary[3]
Notes
- ↑ John E. Vargo, End of the Line for the New York Liberal Party?, liberalparty.org, accessed 25 January 2012.
- ↑ Anthony Weiss, Harding Indictment a Symbol of Liberal Party's Downfall, Jewish Daily Forward, 8 May 2009.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.134.
