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...giant was Big Bill Haywood, leader of the Wobblies, who had come to take over-and win-the bitter Lawrence textile strike of 1912. The towheaded boy of 15 was Fred Erwin Beal, a millworker and a striker. Both were to take refuge one day in Russia: Haywood to die there, Beal to live and taste Communism curdling in his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The Long Voyage Home | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Communists' Creature. The 62-day-long Lawrence strike made Fred Beal a radical for life. He drifted from mill to mill, became a labor organizer, helped lead the big textile strike in New Bedford, Mass., was jailed briefly. Then he joined the Communist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The Long Voyage Home | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...spring of 1929 he was sent to the restless South. The "lint-heads" in the Tennessee and Carolina mills, ridden with pellagra, beaten down by the stretch-out, were showing signs of kicking over the belts and bobbins. Beal went to North Carolina, where he organized and directed the Gastonia strike (at the Manville-Jenckes Co.'s Loray Mill). One night there was violence, and Gastonia's Police Chief 0. F. Aderholt was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The Long Voyage Home | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Beal and 15 other strikers were indicted for first-degree murder. Their trials became famed in the history of U.S. radicalism. The first, at which the prosecution wheeled in a life-size plaster effigy of Chief Aderholt, was declared a mistrial because a juror went insane. At the close of the second, Beal and six others were convicted of second-degree murder. All jumped bail and fled to Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The Long Voyage Home | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Soviet Union Beal became a hero who lectured throughout the land, wrote pamphlets on the Workers' Paradise. But in three years paradise had begun to look like a very different place. Wrote he: "I found just the conditions against which I was fighting over here . . . The workers were hungry ... in rags. I never saw the equal of that misery in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The Long Voyage Home | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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