George J. Papcun
April 25, 1904 – January 1975
Life and Works:
1924: Young Workers League Active in Cleveland, Daily Worker, October 11, 1924
1924: Jailed Miners in Appeal to Save the Union, Daily Worker, November 3, 1924
1924: Progressive Coal Miners in Big Election Drive in Pennsylvania, Daily Worker, November 14, 1924
1924: Unemployment Very Severe in Cleveland, Ohio, Daily Worker, December 10, 1924
1924: Cleveland State Hospital Patients Victims of Graft, Daily Worker, December 15, 1924
1924: Ohio Labor to Oppose State Cossack Rule, Daily Worker, December 17, 1924
1924: Young Workers League Active in Cleveland, Daily Worker, October 11, 1924
1925: Misery Grows Among Jobless in Cleveland, Daily Worker, February 20, 1925
1925: Comrade Loses Job for Trade Union Activity, Daily Worker, February 21, 1925
1925: How They Frame-up Young Workers at Fort Ben C.M.T.C., Young Worker, August 22, 1925
1925: Miners of Coke Region Begin Strike Against the Wage Cut in Force With the 1917 Scale, Daily Worker, November 11, 1925
1925: Strike Against Wage Cut Spreads in Coke Region, Daily Worker, November 12, 1925
1925: Class War Rages in Pa. Mines, Daily Worker, November 14, 1925
1925: For Y.W.L. Unity in Pittsburgh, Young Worker, November 14, 1925
1925: Police Raid Miners' Hall; Slug Pickets, Daily Worker, November 21, 1925
1925: Union Official Attacks Young Workers League, Daily Worker, December 13, 1925
1925: Miner's Home Dynamited in Strike Field, Daily Worker, December 17, 1925
1925: "Lessons" in the C.M.T.C., Daily Worker, December 26, 1925
1925: To All Young Workers in East Ohio and Vicinity, Young Worker, December 26, 1925
1925: Campaign for Working Youth Conference in East Ohio Started, Daily Worker, December 30, 1925
1926: Disaster in Shadyside Mine Costs Workers Nine Lives, Young Worker, January 9, 1926
1926: Geo. Papcun Tours E. Ohio, Young Worker, January 9, 1926
1926: What the Party Must Do to Help the League, Daily Worker, January 23, 1926
1926: Fayette County Police Break Up Lenin Meeting. Draw Guns on Workers; Arrest Papcun, Daily Worker, January 27, 1926
1926: Coal Operators Arrest Papcun for Union Work, Daily Worker, February 3, 1926
1926: Fayette County Police Try to Frameup Papcun, Daily Worker, February 4, 1926
1926: Pittsburgh Coal Co. Responsible for Mine Deaths, Daily Worker, February 9, 1926
1926: Mass Meetings Will Protest Papcun Arrest, Daily Worker, February 14, 1926
1926: Pennsylvania Cossacks Arrest Papcun Before Free Speech Meeting, Daily Worker, February 24, 1926
1926: Unity Young and Adult Workers Is Keynote of Youth Conference, Daily Worker, February 28, 1926
1926: Papcun Arrested in Republic, Penna., Labor Defender, March 1926
1926: Police Arrest Mailer Pickets in Pittsburgh, Daily Worker, March 25, 1926
1926: Labor Fackers Give Pinchot Election Aid, Daily Worker, April 1, 1926
1926: Dynamite Scare Used to Smash Miners' Strike, Daily Worker, April 1, 1926
1926: Coaldigger is Framed Up by Company Dicks, Daily Worker, April 6, 1926
1926: Problems of the Pittsburgh League, Part I;, Part II, Daily Worker, April 6-7, 1926
1926: Shitdown of W. Va. Mines Lays Off 1,700, Daily Worker, April 7, 1926
1926: Anti-Union Politics by the Miners' Union Officials, Daily Worker Special Magazine Supplement, April 17, 1926
1926: May Day and Child Health Day, Daily Worker, May 2, 1926
1926: Pennsyvania Labor Is Facing Many Problems, Daily Worker, May 12, 1926
1926: Papcun Faces Sedition Trial Monday, June 28, Daily Worker, June 23, 1926
1926: Nine Jurors Chosen in the Papcun Trial, Daily Worker, July 1, 1926
1926: Papcun Trial Opens Taking of Testimony, Daily Worker, July 3, 1926
1926: Company Tools Testify Against Papcun in Trial, Daily Worker, July 3, 1926
1926: George Papcun Case Will End in Court Today, Daily Worker, July 4, 1926
1926: Steel Company Court Declares Papcun Guilty, Daily Worker, July 8, 1926
1926: The Case of George Papcun, William F. Dunne, Daily Worker, July 11, 1926
1926: George Papcun is Convicted, Max Shachtman, Labor Defender, September 1926
1926: Pennsylvania State Labor Must Live Up to Anti-Militarist Decision, Daily Worker, October 29, 1926
1926: War Mongers and Peace Makers Hold Confabs in Pittsburgh, Daily Worker, November 20, 1926
1926: John L. Lewis Ignores Problem Arising from New Mine Machines, Daily Worker, December 10, 1926
1927: Mine Workers, Non-Union, Out on Wage Strike, Daily Worker, January 11, 1927
1927: Judgement Arrested in Papcun Case; Communist Convicted of Sedition, Daily Worker, October 22, 1927
1927: The Fake Co-Operative Conference, Daily Worker, November 21, 1927
1927: Anthracite Unemployment, Daily Worker, December 30, 1927
1928: Anthracite Miners War on Dismissal, Daily Worker, February 22, 1928
1928: Spend $1,000,000 to Build Penn. National Guard, Daily Worker, February 28, 1928
1928: Miners to Hold Demonstrations, Daily Worker, February 29, 1928
1928: "Smash Murder Marchine!" Miners Say, Daily Worker, March 1, 1928
1928: What About the Anthracite?, Labor Unity, March 1928
1928: Papcun Outlines Bitter Fight in Big Tri-District, Daily Worker, March 31, 1928
1928: Papcun Defies State Troopers, Daily Worker, May 9, 1928
1928: District 1 Miners Ask Convention, Daily Worker, May 16, 1928
1928: Brennan-Harris Convention Acts to Betray Miners; Ousts George Papcun, Daily Worker, May 24, 1928
1928: Union Leader Warns Miners in Anthracite. Papcun Shows Danger Facing Coal Diggers, Daily Worker, July 18, 1928
1928: The Struggle in the Anthracite, Labor Unity, August 1928
1930: Lovestone Renegades Lose in a Conspiracy Against the Party, [Statement of George Papcun] Daily Worker, December 29, 1930
1931: Who Is George Papcun? A Statement by J. Shaffer, Revolutionary Age, February 28, 1931
1931: Omaha, Neb. Workers Rally to TUUL, Party on Labor Day Meeting, Daily Worker, September 14, 1931
1931: Council Bluffs Police, Sheriffs, Kidnap, Beat Up Communists, Daily Worker, October 29, 1931
1931: Warning Against Renegade and Traitorous Element [George Papcun], Daily Worker, December 23, 1931
1932: New Militant Forces Join the Ranks of the Left Opposition. Papcun's Statement, The Militant, October 29, 1932
1935 Rubber Barons Begin Offensive, New Militant, June 15, 1935
1936: Cohen, Cowen, Krueger, Papcun, Shipley, Steed, Others Join [Revolutionary Worker] League, The Fighting Worker, May 1, 1936
1937 Texas Oil Workers Gird for Struggle Against Companies, Socialist Call, March 27, 1937
1937 Frey Flops as Texas C.I.O. Gains, Labor Action, May 1, 1937
1937 Texas Unions Unite to Form State CIO Body, Socialist Call, July 3, 1937