Clarence Miller (activist)
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Clarence Miller was a 20th-century American labor activist who, as a member of the Young Communist League USA, participated in the 1926 Passaic textile strike and the 1929 Loray Mill strike, in which
Clarence Miller (among the 16 prisoners in this photo from International Labor Defense magazine)
International Labor Defense
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The International Labor Defense was a legal advocacy organization established in 1925 in the United States as the American section of the Comintern's International Red Aid network. The ILD defended Sa
Clarence Miller (activist)
…Gurley Flynn. On February 2, 1926, Miller met with Albert Weisbord, William Weinstone, Joseph Zack, and others named Kovetz, Blumkin, Baylin, and Dyaik. International Labor Defense mentioned Miller ("another of the young militants") faced probably prison term. Jack Rubinstein and Miller was held on $10,000 bail. On May 17, 1926…
Party leaders jailed in connection with the August 1922 raid on the CPA's Bridgman Convention. Executive Secretary C.E. Ruthenberg is seated in the front row in the middle. The Labor Defense Council was established to defend the individuals arrested in this raid.
Rare pinback button issued by the Labor Defense Council in conjunction with the 1923 trials of chief Bridgman defendants William Z. Foster and C.E. Ruthenberg
Symbol of International Red Aid used at the time of its 10th Anniversary in 1932
James P. Cannon (left) and George Maurer of the Labor Defense Council, 1925