449:. The out break of yet another revolt strained relations between the CPUSA and American Jewry. The Comintern was silent on what stance to take, so they decided to send a personal envoy to the sister party to co-ordinate strategy. Epstein learned that the party was being rapidly "Arabized" and was taking a more and militant stand against the
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stand in reporting on the out break of violence in
Palestine. Under party pressure the paper changed its analysis reporting the revolt as a national liberation movement against the British and their Zionist collaborators. That fall Epstein was relieved of all other party offices and was sent to the
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to go on fund raising tours for the underground Jewish resistance movement in Poland. Finally, in 1945 he became public relations director of the
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Profiles of eleven; profiles of eleven men who guided the destiny of an immigrant society and stimulated social consciousness among the
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faction within the party he resigned the editorship in spring 1929 during intense factional warfare within the party. In August 1929 both
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The Jew and communism; the story of early
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and became involved in the local Jewish radical scene. In 1915 he became labor reporter for a new
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Jewish labor in U.S.A.; an industrial, political and cultural history of the Jewish labor movement.
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Jewish labor in U.S.A.; an industrial, political and cultural history of the Jewish labor movement.
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editor were censured by the party for taking a pro-
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425:He returned in 1931. No longer on the staff of
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