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- Workers'_Defense_League abstract "The Workers' Defense League was an American socialist organization devoted to promoting labor rights. The group was founded on August 29, 1936 with the endorsement of Norman Thomas, six-time presidential candidate of the Socialist Party of America. The WDL described itself as a "militant, politically nonpartisan organization which would devote itself exclusively to the protection of workers' rights". Its officers included Thomas, David Clendenin, George S. Counts, and Pauli Murray. Philosopher Richard Rorty's parents were active with the WDL when he was a child, and he acted as an errand boy for the group. Harry Fleischman acted as the group's chairman for twenty-five years.During World War II, the WDL supported war resisters, fought for desegregation of the armed forces, and opposed Japanese American internment. The group also took on the case of Odell Waller, a Virginia sharecropper sentenced to death in 1940 for killing his white landlord. Arguing that the landlord had cheated Waller and that he had in any case acted in self-defense, the WDL raised money for Waller's defense, lobbied for the commutation of his sentence, and mounted a nationwide publicity campaign on his behalf. The effort was unsuccessful, and Waller was executed on July 2, 1942.In the 1960s, the organization worked to integrate minorities and women into traditionally white male labor unions, though with little success.".
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- Workers'_Defense_League subject Category:Socialism_in_the_United_States.
- Workers'_Defense_League comment "The Workers' Defense League was an American socialist organization devoted to promoting labor rights. The group was founded on August 29, 1936 with the endorsement of Norman Thomas, six-time presidential candidate of the Socialist Party of America. The WDL described itself as a "militant, politically nonpartisan organization which would devote itself exclusively to the protection of workers' rights". Its officers included Thomas, David Clendenin, George S. Counts, and Pauli Murray.".
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