Word: bloor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since it was first formed in 1924 by a handful of party stalwarts in Chicago, the Worker has had a rocky history; its first editor was Party Philosopher J. Louis Engdahl, and its first circulation-drummer, Ella Reeve ("Mother") Bloor. In 1926, the Worker moved to Manhattan, switched quarters twice before it settled down on the eighth floor of a dingy building on Twelfth Street, two blocks from Union Square. It started printing on used presses bought cheaply from its archenemy, the Wall Street Journal...
...Ella Reeve ("Mother") Bloor, an idealist rebel. She came from a fine old colonial family. When she was 14, she demanded that her name be taken off the rolls of the Presbyterian Church in Bridgeton, N.J., because she did not think it fair for some people to be destined for hell and others for heaven. She was, successively, a suffragette, Prohibitionist, Ethical Culturist, Single Taxer, a partisan of William Jennings Bryan, Eugene Debs and Upton Sinclair. When the Russian Revolution came along, she found the spiritual home for which she had searched so long...
...between headquarters in New York City and the party's Washington "apparatus," a group of Communists who occupied key observation posts in the U.S. Government. The apparatus was organized, said Chambers, by Harold Ware, a son of the Communist Party's 86-year-old veteran, Ella Reeve Bloor, and took its orders from "the head of the whole underground U.S. Communist Party"-J. Peters...