Nathan Witt
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Nathan Witt, born Nathan Wittowsky, was an American lawyer who is best known as being the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from 1937 to 1940. He resigned from the NLRB after his communist political beliefs were exposed, and he was accused of manipulating the Board's policies to favor his own political leanings. He was also investigated several times in the late 1940s and 1950s for being a spy for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. No evidence of espionage was ever found.
Nathan Witt (center) with NLRB Chair Madden (left) and NLRB Chief Counsel Fahy (1937)
Lee Pressman (here during testimony before a Senate subcommittee on March 24, 1938) worked with Witt at the AAA (when they were both allegedly Ware Group members) and then was his law partner in 1950
US Representative Howard Worth Smith led investigations into Witt's activities at NLRB
Harold I. Cammer was Witt's law partner as of 1941 and also legal counsel during hearings that started the Hiss Case in August 1948
Harold Ware
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Harold or "Hal" Ware was an American Marxist, regarded as one of the Communist Party's top experts on agriculture. He was employed by a federal New Deal agency in the 1930s. He is alleged to have been a Soviet spy and is understood to have founded the "Ware Group," a covert group of operatives within the United States government aiding Soviet intelligence agents.
Ella Reeve Bloor (circa 1910)
First section of "H.R. Harrow's" agricultural recommendations to the underground Communist Party of America (November 1921)
Soviet Russia, official magazine of the Friends of Soviet Russia (cover by Lydia Gibson)