Harry W. Laidler
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Harry Wellington Laidler was an American socialist writer, magazine editor, and politician. He is best remembered as executive director of the League for Industrial Democracy, successor to the Interco
Laidler in the Wesleyan University yearbook, 1908
Laidler (far left) alongside David Dubinsky, Gordon R. Clapp and Tommy Douglas at a League for Industrial Democracy luncheon, 1949
Louis Waldman
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Louis Waldman was a Ukrainian-born Jewish-American garment worker, engineer, lawyer and politician who was a leading figure in the Socialist Party of America from the late 1910s through the mid-1930s.
Harry W. Laidler
…young insurgents, running for and winning election as State Secretary of the Socialist Party of New York in a hotly contested race with Old Guard leader Louis Waldman. Laidler was president of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1930 to 1932 and again from 1948 to 1949. He also served as head of its board…
Waldman in 1920
Waldman's official State Assembly portrait, 1918
Waldman as a candidate for governor on the front page of The New Leader, July 26, 1930
Louis Waldman as he appeared at the time of publication of his first memoir in 1944.