page_title: Ludwig Lore
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Ludwig Lore / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Ludwig Lore, American radical political activist and newspaper publisher
context_page_description: Ludwig Lore was an American socialist magazine editor, newspaper writer, lecturer, and politician, best remembered for his tenure as editor of the socialist New Yorker Volkszeitung and role as a factional leader in the early American communist movement. During the middle 1930s, he wrote the daily foreign affairs column "Behind the Cables" for the New York Post. Later still, he was charged with having secretly worked recruiting potential agents and gathering information on behalf of the Soviet foreign intelligence network.
caption: Caricature of Ludwig Lore drawn at the founding convention of the Communist Labor Party by Art Young for The Liberator, October 1919.
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