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Charles Emil Ruthenberg (July 9, 1882 – March 1, 1927) was an American Marxist politician and a founder and head of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). He is one of four Americans to be buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis . Biography. Early years.
Jun 18, 2019 · At the time of his death in 1927, he was lauded as “one of the most indicted and imprisoned workers” in the history of the American labor movement. Yet today, few know the name Charles Emil ...
C. E. Ruthenberg. Charles Emil Ruthenberg (July 9, 1882 – March 1, 1927), known to his friends as C.E., was an American Marxist politician and a founder and head of the American Communist Party.
Jul 10, 2024 · Ruthenberg was formal and humorless. While most of the CPUSA's leaders went by their first names, he was always “Comrade Ruthenberg.” He did, however, allow his wife and personal friends to call him “C.E.” On his career see Millett, Stephen M.
Two 1923 test trials of the Michigan criminal syndicalism law resulted from the arrests, with trade union leader William Z. Foster freed by a "hung jury," while Communist Party leader C. E. Ruthenberg was convicted.
Source: Cuyahoga County Archives Charles E. Ruthenberg (1882-1927) As an earnest young Socialist. Date: ca. 1911 Running for Mayor of Cleveland On September 25, 1911, the Plain Dealer ran this article on Charles E. Ruthenberg during his bid that year to become Cleveland's first Socialist mayor.
C. E. Ruthenberg (recently convicted of syndicalism in Michigan) was there at the head of the Workers’ Party. William Z. Foster appeared quietly as a delegate from a Chicago union.
Oct 10, 2019 · From 1923 the main factions were led by William Z. Foster and Charles Ruthenberg – subsequently by his collaborator Jay Lovestone – with smaller groupings coalescing around Ludwig Lore from 1923 and James P. Cannon from 1925.
RUTHENBERG, CHARLES (9 July 1882-3 Mar. 1927), prominent in the Cleveland Socialist and, later, Communist parties, was born in the CUDELL neighborhood of Cleveland to German immigrants August and Wilhelmenia (Lau) Ruthenberg.
Of What? Speeches before the Jury in Connection with the Trial of C.E. Ruthenberg, Alfred Wagenknecht, Charles Baker (Cleveland: Socialist News, 1917). Along with Baker and Ruthenberg, Wagenknecht was convicted for hindering selective service registration by persuading Alphonse J. Schue not to register; they were sentenced to one year in jail.
