The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-03
In THE HOME
ANN BAR TON u
Meet Rebecca Grecht

ONLY few days are left before
you will place your mark beside
the sickle and hammer on the bal
lot and VOTE COMMUNIST. We
have not had the space in our tiny
column to run the biographies of
all women candidates running for
office on the Communist ticket
throughout the country. But we
will make the best use of the few
days remaining.
Today we will meet in this coll
umn Rebecca Grecht, Communis5
candidate for United States SEN
ator in New Jersey. She grew up
on New York's East Side, and her
early memories include the talk of
her father and mother returning
from trade union meetings. Strike!
Wages! Hours! Union agreements!
She heard these words and consid-
cred them.
In 1914 and 1916, a murderous
terror was directed against the coal
and iron strikers in Colorado and
Arizona by the Rockefeller inter-
ests. Women and children were
burned to death in a tent colony at
Ludlow. Rebecca Grecht began to
read books and pamphlets to learn
what it was turned the wheels Of
such society.
When the Russian Revolution
became reality part of the Social
list Party denounced the new work
ers' state. Rebecca knew that she
was with that other group that
took position for the Soviet
Union. When that group became
the Communist Party, Rebecca
Grecht knew she was Communist.
She joined the Party in 1921 and
within two weeks was organizer of
her unit Her activity steadily in
creased, until there was no other
thing more important in her life
than to help build the Party that
would organize the workers to
establish a new world. She was
elected to the New York District
Committee of the Communist Party,
and became secretary of the New
York Workers School the first year
of is existence. While working in
a millinery shop she was elected to
the executive board of Local 43 of
the Millinery Union.
!
FROM that time on she has par
ticipated in and led strike and
other working class struggles of the
workers all over the country. She
has worked among miners, eel
workers, textile workers, shoe work.
ers, bringing into action with them
the line of the Communist Party,
to guide and strengthen their strug-
giles. She went to Chicago to raise
money for the textile strikers in
Passaic in 1926. and rallied the local
unions of the A. F. of L. to aid the
strikers. She went to Pittsburgh
in 1928, where for six months she
worked among the miners in the
left wing Save the Union" move
ment, which drew around it masses
of miners, angry with the rotten
leadership of the United Mine
Workers. Several times she was
election campaign manager in New
York and herself ran on the Com
munist ticket. She was leading
Party functionary in the Mime
sofa area, where among other
struggles of the workers of Mime
sofa to defend their standard of
living she was active in a dock
workers strike in Superior. In 1881
and 1882, she was in Pittsburgh.
working among the coal and steel
workers, a leading Party figure.
After that and until recently she
was District Organizer of the Com
munist Party in New Jersey at a
time when the workers throughout
New Jersey we're engaging in mass
struggles, in South River, in Tren-
ton, in Paterson Ito name a few,