page_title: Myra Page
section_title: Party membership
hierarchical_section_title: Myra Page / Communism / Party membership
caption_attribution_description: English: Communist Party leader William Z. Foster.
context_page_description: Myra Page, pen name of Dorothy Markey, born Dorothy Page Gary was a 20th-century American communist writer, journalist, union activist, and teacher.
context_section_description: In her memoir In a Generous Spirit, Page states that both she and her husband were members of the nascent Communist Party of the USA.  She does not state when, but from her description it seems they joined in 1928 during the height of factionalism within the Party between followers of Jay Lovestone, James P. Cannon, and William Z. Foster (described at some length in the memoir of Whittaker Chambers).  Page states that she and her husband supported Foster because "he was a union man."
  By the Fall of 1930, after they had let their contracts to teach expire at Wheaton College, her husband "John and I began to work full-time for the movement," i.e., for the Party.  In 1931, she became editor for the New Pioneer monthly magazine for Communist children (1931–1938), published by Young Communist League USA.
caption: William Z. Foster (undated), whom Page supported amidst Party factional struggles in 1929
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