Nathan Witt, born Nathan Wittowsky, was an American lawyer who is best known as being the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board from 1937 to 1940. He resigned from the NLRB after his communi
Witt in 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
Witt (center) with NLRB Chair J. Warren Madden (left) and NLRB Chief Counsel Charles Fahy December 13, 1937
US Representative Howard Worth Smith led investigations into Witt's activities at NLRB
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
Ware's passport photo, 1927
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)