DEATH OF ALBERT GOLDMAN
We have learned of the death of Albert Goldman at the age of 63. A member of the I WW in 1919, he joined the American Communist Party in 1920. A journeyman tailor and a union militant, he took evening courses and in 1924 passed his bar exams as a lawyer. From then on he was at the service of the workers' movement against the legal traps of the US government and the bosses.
In 1933 he was expelled from the CP for left opposition and joined the Trotskyist organization. Breaking discipline in 1935, he put into practice his policy of entrism in the Socialist Party, which the Trotskyists followed in 1936, when his indiscipline was forgiven because his "seniority" made him the only Troiskyist who had certain much-needed formal rights.
In 1937 he acted as Trotsky's attorney before the International Commission of Enquiry on the Moscow Trials, presided over by Professor John Dewey. He won his client a resounding "Not Guilty!".
During the war, he was one of the 18 Trotskyist leaders prosecuted and sentenced at Minneapolis to a year in prison under the despicable Smith Act. were thosc he lived as a pioneer of Trotskyism and the Fourth International, and, with the recollection of his personal qualities of deep conscientiousness, quiet courage, and enduring patience, he will be remembered with warm regrets even by many who were his adversaries.
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