page_title: Joseph R. Brodsky
section_title: Other associations
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph R. Brodsky / Associations / Other associations
caption_attribution_description: English: Noted folk singer Pete Seeger entertaining at the opening of the Washington labor canteen, sponsored by the United Federal Labor Canteen, sponsored by the Federal Workers of America, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). First lady Eleanor Roosevelt seen at center. 1212 18th St. N.W., Washington, D.C.
context_page_description: Joseph R. Brodsky, often known as Joseph Brodsky and Joe Brodsky, was an early 20th-century American civil rights lawyer, political activist, general counsel of the International Labor Defense, co-founder of the International Juridical Association, and member of ILD defense team for members of the Scottsboro Boys Case of the 1930s.
context_section_description: Brodsky was involved in many left-leaning associations, making him a nexus of Popular Front and other political movements.
  Those associations include:
  American League for Peace and Democracy:  Founded in 1932 via the (Amsterdam) World Congress Against War was held in Holland in August, 1932, under the direction of the Communist International, chaired by Henri Barbusse.  Prominent participants included:  Francis J. McConnell, Reinhold Niebuhr, James B. Carey, Joseph Curran, Max Lerner, and Paul Robeson.  Others affiliated included Brodsky and:  Roger Baldwin, William Dodd, Jr.,  Sam Jaffe, William Gropper, Louis B. Boudin, Granville Hicks, Robert Morss Lovett, T. A. Bisson, Mrs. Corliss Lamont, Ben Gold, Muriel Draper, Frances Farmer, Donald Ogden Stewart, Wanda Gag, Lewis Mumford, Vito Marcantonio, Kyle Crichton (father of Michael Crichton), Philip Loeb, Ella Winter, Earl Browder (CPUSA), Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Alfred Kamin, Harvey O'Connor, Edgar Snow, Dr. Max Yergan, Sherwood Anderson, Melvyn Douglas, Prof, Franz Boas, Congressman John M. Coffee, Jerome Davis, John P. Davis, Theodore Dreiser, Samuel Ornitz, Morris Katz, Charles Preston, Aaron Wool, Russell Thayer, Regina Rakoczy, Sophia Pressman (wife of Lee Pressman, Israel Amter, Malcolm Cowley, Robert W. Kenny, Harry C. Lamberton, Prof. Oliver Larkin, Prof. Walter Rautenstrauch, Ella Reeve Bloor, W. E. B. DuBois, Joseph Freeman, Lillian Furness, Joseph Gardner, Kate Crane Gartz, Michael Gold, Joshua Kunitz, Corliss Lamont, Lincoln Steffens, Bruce Bliven, Clarence Hathaway, Carol Weiss King, Freda Kirchwey, and Lillian Hellman.
  Book Union" Offered as first book Proletarian Literature in the United States, sponsored by the League of American Writers and published by International Publishers. Its editorial board comprised Brodsky and:  Malcolm Cowley, Robert W. Dunn, Henry Hart, Granville Hicks, Corliss Lamont, Isidor Schneider, Bernard Smith, Alexander Trachtenberg, Mary Van Kleeck, and Marian Hart. Its advisory council included Brodsky and: Roger Baldwin, Max Bedacht, Erskine Caldwell, Fielding Burke, Jack Conroy, James T. Farrell, Waldo Frank, Joseph Freeman, Hugo Gellert, Ben Gold, Michael Gold, Josephine Herbst, Langston Hughes, Matthew Josephson, Joshua Kunitz, John Howard Lawson, Robert Morss Lovett, Loren Miller, Lewis Mumford, Joseph North, Clifford Odets, Moissaye J. Olgin, Paul Peters, Edwin Seaver, John L. Spivak, Maxwell S. Stewart, John Strachey, Genevieve Taggard, Ernst Toller, Louis Weinstock, John Wexley, Ella Winter, and James Waterman Weiss.
  Celebration of 15 Years Biro-Bidjan:  Founded to promote the Jewish colony in Birobidzhan, USSR, and sponsored by Brodsky and: Ben Gold, Rabbi Benjamin Plotkin, Louis Weinstock, Jacob Adler, Max Bedacht, Alexander Bittelman, Louis B. Boudin, Peter V. Cacchione, Morris Carnovsky, Dr. Bella Dodd, Abraham Flaxer, William Gropper, V. J. Jerome,  Moishe Katz, Rockwell Kent, Carol Weiss King, Mrs. J. H. Macy, Mary Cabot Macy, Vito Marcantonio, Harry Mintz, Paul Muni, Clifford Odets, Max Perlow, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Dr. Maxwell Ross, Jacob Rothbaum, Max Steinberg, James Waterman Wise, Victor A. Yakhontoff, and Benjamin Zemach.
  International Workers Order (IWO):  Mutual aid society that paralleled ILD support "arm" of the Communist Party of the USA:  see entry on International Workers Order.
  Jewish People's Committee (JPC):  Founded in 1936 as Jewish People's Committee for United Action Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism ("Jewish People's Committee") in response to a refusal by the American Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress to admit representatives of the Jewish Section of the  International Workers Order (IWO), ICOR, and the Fur Workers Joint Board of New York City. Founding members included:  Rabbi Jacob Greenfield, William Weiner (IWO), Dr. Charles  Kuntz (Icor), H. Upatschwisky (Fur Workers), and Rubin Saltzman.  Mirroring Soviet foreign policy, the JPC switched from Anti-Fascism to Isolationism after the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939. When Nazi German attacked Soviet Russia in 1941, the JPC rev
caption: Pete Seeger (here, entertaining Eleanor Roosevelt in 1944[28]) made Brodsky attorney for People's Songs.
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