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Israel Amter

Workers and peasants of Brooklyn, all I believed in was a lie.

He was one of many disillusioned Communists.

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Bureaucracy is widespread in the unemployed movement.... There is direct appointment and removals of Unemployed Council functionaries by the Party committees. These functionaries are responsible not to the masses but to the Party committees.

Though the Communist Party was trying to organize and gain support from the unemployed, it was difficult due to the bureaucracy.

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Israel Amter

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Israel Amter (1881–1954) was a Marxist politician and founding member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Amter is best remembered as one of the Communist Party leaders jailed in conjunction with the International Unemployment Day riot of 1930 and as a frequent candidate for public office, including three runs for Governor of New York.

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