Manuel Gómez [Charles Shipman] [Jesús Ramírez]
1895 - 1986
He was born Charles Francis Phillips in New York City. He attended the Columbia School of Journalism and became politically active during WW I. In 1917 he was the Organizing Secretary of the Collegiate Anti-Militarism League. In the following year he traveled to Mexico and began working with the Communist Party of Mexico. As a representative of the CPM he attended the Second World Congress of the Communist International. He began using the name Jesús Ramírez.
In 1921 he returned to the United States under the assumed name, Manuel Gómez, which he continued to use during his Communist years. From 1923 to 1928 he was the Secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, affiliated with the Comintern and CPUSA. In 1928 he was a member of the CPUSA delegation to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International.
In 1929 he adopted a new name, Charles Shipman, but continued for several years to write as Manuel Gómez for the Communist press, even after he was formally expelled from the Party in 1932. He only publicly broke with the Party in 1937.
It Had to be a Revolution. Menoirs of an American Radical, Charles Shipman
Works:
1923: Proletarian Song Book of Lyrics from the Operetta The Last Revolution, [as Jesús Ramírez] with Mike Gold
1923: Mr. Hughes Surprises Himself [as J. Ramírez]
1924: The Counter-Revolution in Mexico [as J. Ramírez]
1924: Wall Street Gambler and Hog Butcher Unloads Bankrupt Elevators on Farmers [as J. Ramírez Gomez]
1924: American Capitalism Preparing New Wars [as J. Ramírez (Gomez)]
1924: The Passing of Pittsburgh Plus [as J. Ramírez (Gomez)] Daily Worker Magazine, August 23, 1924
1924: Pan-American Adventures of Sam Gompers [as J. Ramírez Gomez]
1924: The Lawyers Defend Their Meal Ticket
1924: The Truth About "The Reds"
1924: Show "Red" Baiter is Plain Liar
1924: Spolansky Exposes Own Plots
1924: Spolansky in Net Again as Fact Juggler
1924: Jake Spolansky Falls Into Daily Worker's Trap with his Silly Wall St. Blast Story, Daily Worker, October 23, 1924
1924: Spolansky and His Old Pal, 'Bill' Burns, King of Dicks, Casting Their Lots Together, Daily Worker, October 27, 1924
1924: Why Not Cheap Milk?, Daily Worker, December 31, 1924
1925: Poems for Workers. An Anthology
1925: Ammunition for the Workers' Arsenal: Distribution of Working Population into Employer, Salaried and Wage-earning Classes, Daily Worker, February 6, 1925
1925: Ammunition for the Workers' Arsenal: Insecurity - the Workers' Constant Attendant, Daily Worker, February 14, 1925
1925: Ammunition for the Workers' Arsenal: Working Yourself Out of a Job, Daily Worker, February 28, 1925
1925: Lenin and the New Wave of Marxism
1925: Ammunition for the Workers' Arsenal: Women in American Trade Unions, Daily Worker, March 13, 1925
1925: State Police Series: State Police Wanted Only by Capitalists to Crush Strikes; Newspaper Campaign Exposed, Daily Worker, March 19, 1925
1925: State Police Series: State Police Always Used to Break Strikes and Are Never on Rural Patrol as Claimed, Daily Worker, March 20, 1925
1925: State Police Series: Strikes to be Crushed by Permanent Martial Law, Is Meaning of State Police, Daily Worker, March 24, 1925
1925: State Police Series: State Police in Fact are Far from Romantic Fiction of "Protectors" of People, Daily Worker, April 1, 1925
1925: The Evolution of Senor Calles
1925: Spanish Branch Makes Big Gains in Mexican Meet, Daily Worker, April 1, 1925
1925: Mexicans Raise Alarm Against U.S. Imperialism, [on the Congress of the Communist Party of Mexico] Daily Worker, April 21, 1925
1925: Build Strong Mexican Party, [on the Congress of the Communist Party of Mexico] Daily Worker, April 22, 1925
1925: Soviet Flag to Fly in Mexico this May Day, Gomez Interviews Red Minister, Pestkovsky, Daily Worker, April 28, 1925
1925: The Pan-American Anti-Imperialist League
1925: Ammunition for the Workers' Arsenal: Mortgaged Homes, Daily Worker, May 25, 1925
1925: Down with American Imperialism! Manifesto of the All American Anti-Imperialist League, Daily Worker, June 11, 1925
1925: June 29 to July 4 is Anti-Imperialist Week! Proclamation of the All American Anti-Imperialist League, Daily Worker, June 13, 1925
1925: Our Own Little League of Nations
1925: Labor and Empire
1925: Unite for the Support of the Chinese People Against Brutal Tyranny of World Imperialists, [Appeal of All-American Anti-Imperialist League, Workers (Communist) Party, and Trade Union Educational League] Daily Worker, July 5, 1925
1925: An Un-Leninist Analysis of Imperialism, [Critique of Gomez's article "Labor and Empire"], by Bertram D. Wolfe, Daily Worker, August 22, 1925
1925: A Reply to Wolfe's Uncritical "Critique", by Manuel Gomez, Daily Worker, August 22, 1925
1925: La Folletism Without La Follette
1925: The Martyred Colonel, Daily Worker, October 13, 1925
1925: Panama Series: Panama's "Freedom" is a Myth, Daily Worker, October 16, 1925
1925: Panama Series: The Conquest of Panama by Marines, Daily Worker, October 17, 1925
1925: Panama Series: Roosevelt's "Big Stick" Hits Panama, Daily Worker, October 18, 1925
1925: Panama Series: U.S. Bayonets Still Menace Panama City, Daily Worker, October 22, 1925
1925: Panama Series: Panama Labor Not Aided by A.F.L. Stand, Daily Worker, October 24, 1925
1925: Soviet Russia, Friend of the Oppressed Peoples, Daily Worker, November 7, 1925
1925: Latin America Will Protest Mella Arrest, Daily Worker, December 12, 1925
1925: "Lenin is Dead, But His work Lives On", Daily Worker, December 29, 1925
1926: In Search of a Big Back Yard, Daily Worker, January 15, 1926
1926: The Attack on Mexico, Daily Worker, January 23, 1926
1926: The Iron Chain Around the World, Daily Worker, February 3, 1926
1926: Organize for Liberation of the Colonies. Canton Center of World Movement, Daily Worker, February 11, 1926
1926: The "Failure" of the Mexican Claims Commission, Daily Worker, March 12, 1926
1926: Lessons of the Paris Commune, Daily Worker, March 13, 1926
1926: What the Trade Unions Mean to the Workers, Daily Worker, March 18, 1926
1926: 'Independence of Philippines Illegal'; Judge. Court Lackey's Views Reflect Imperialists', Daily Worker, March 26, 1926
1926: Anti-Mexican Press Fake Exposed, Daily Worker, April 1, 1926
1926: Analysis of Mexican Land Law Discloses Called Backed Down to United States, Daily Worker, April 3, 1926
1926: Peru Dictator is Vassal of U.S. Bankers, Daily Worker, April 13, 1926
1926: Gomez Begins Six-Weeks Course on U.S. Imperialism at Workers' School, Daily Worker, April 14, 1926
1926: Communists of Mexico Draft New Program, Daily Worker, June 9, 1926
1926: Sacco-Vanzetti Demonstrations Planned by Mexican Workers, Daily Worker, June 10, 1926
1926: Imperialists Busy at Panama Conference, Daily Worker, June 10, 1926
1926: Protest Wood's Veto of Island Referendum Bill,, Daily Worker, August 22, 1926