page_title: Marguerite Young (journalist)
section_title: Daily Worker
hierarchical_section_title: Marguerite Young (journalist) / Career / Daily Worker
caption_attribution_description: English: Viitekood / Reference code: ERAF.9595.1.20.15 Kirje andmebaasis FOTIS / Description in the database FOTIS: www.ra.ee/fotis/index.php?type=2&amp;id=746500
context_page_description: Marguerite Young was an early 20th-Century American journalist, best known for her Communist Party affiliation, specifically as the Washington bureau chief of the Daily Worker who facilitated the introduction between Soviet spy Hede Massing and American recruit Noel Field. She also knew Alger Hiss. After two years with that newspaper, the CPUSA secretary general and newspaper's editor fired her. During World War II and at least to 1950, she worked for the New York Herald-Tribune.
context_section_description: "On January 6, 1934, I quit The World-Telegram and returned to Washington to write daily dispatches for the Communist newspaper, The Daily Worker.  Her motivation to join the Daily Worker appears twice in a repeated, center-page headline, in bold:  
  HITLER SEIZES PRUSSIA
    Editor Clarence Hathaway lured her over to the newspaper.
  She reported a visit of CPUSA secretary general Earl Browder, who used her office as a base before going to Capitol Hill for meetings.  "I'm going to meet with a study group in the House," he tells her.  Marxist writer James Farrell also used her office as a base when visiting from New York City.  Such events were relatively normal back then, she recalls:  "This was the United Front, as it was called here in the United States.  Joseph Stalin launched a similar moment and called it the Popular Front and Popular Front it was called in Spain... and People's Front."  She also met CPUSA leaders Jack Stachel and Herbert Benjamin.
  Young first considered resigning from the Daily Worker when Hathaway ran a piece of hers he had assigned, then published a retraction of it the next day.  "I telephoned Clarence Hathaway.  He was sorry, very, very sorry.  That was all...  I had never encountered anything like this when I had worked for the 'bourgeois' press."
  The New Militant newspaper cited Young's reportage for the Daily Worker in an article called "Partners in Social-Patriotic Betrayal."
caption: May Day parade float with statue reading the Daily Worker
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