Karl Emil Nygard
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Karl Emil Nygard was an American politician who became the first Communist mayor in the United States when he was elected president of the village council of Crosby, Minnesota, in 1932.
Article on Nygard by Sender Garlin in the Daily Worker on October 19, 1933
Sender Garlin
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Sender Garlin was an American journalist, pamphleteer, and writer.
Karl Emil Nygard
…police and businessmen. One of his acts in office was to declare May Day an official holiday. In the Daily Worker, the CPUSA's official newspaper, Sender Garlin wrote, "The mine owners threaten to shut down the single mine now operating in Crosby, Minn., unless the workers 'get rid of that Red'," following the…
Garlin c. 1931
Garlin c. 1934