37 Facts About Harold Ware

Harold or "Hal" Ware was an American Marxist, regarded as one of the Communist Party's top experts on agriculture.

Harold Ware was employed by a federal New Deal agency in the 1930s.

Harold Ware is alleged to have been a Soviet spy and is understood to have founded the "Ware Group," a covert group of operatives within the United States government aiding Soviet intelligence agents.

Harold Ware became a lifelong activist in the labor movement, an early member of the Social Democracy of America, and a founder of the Communist Party of America.

Harold Ware's divorced mother moved with him and two brothers to the country for a year, while the rest of the family lived with his father in Philadelphia and attended school there.

Harold Ware adapted other horse-drawn gear for use in mechanized agriculture.

In 1921, eager to study the plight of migrant farm workers firsthand with a view to organizing them for the Communist Party, Harold Ware took a six-month trip around the United States, working harvests from the South to the Midwest, Northwest and then East again through the Upper Midwest.

That fall, in addition to articles he wrote for the "underground" and "aboveground" Communist press, Harold Ware compiled an exhaustive survey of American agriculture, including maps showing distribution of types of farms, farm incomes, and so forth in different sections of the country.

In late 1921, Harold Ware attended the founding convention in New York of the Workers Party of America.

Harold Ware was elected an alternate to the governing Central Executive Committee of that organization.

Harold Ware was not typically a member of the Communist Party's top committees; he preferred to work in the agricultural sector rather than to engage in factional party politics.

Harold Ware helped come up with the idea of using funds raised by the Friends of Soviet Russia organization to construct a model collective farm in Soviet Russia.

In May 1922, Hal and Cris Harold Ware left his three children in America for Soviet Russia along with their tractors, implements, a complete medical unit, and several tons of food supplies.

Harold Ware arrived in Soviet Russia to inspect the land designated for the project, only to be told by Soviet officials that the deal was off because local peasants had begun to allocate the land among themselves.

Harold Ware spent most of 1925 raising funds for his Soviet farming venture.

Harold Ware convinced some companies to send test tractors and implements along with mechanics to assemble them.

In Spring 1931, Harold Ware set out to organizing farmers and farm-workers in America.

Shortly after completion of this task, Harold Ware established a research center in Washington, DC called Farm Research, Inc and recruited personnel to run it.

Harold Ware was as American as ham and eggs and as indistinguishable as everybody else.

Harold Ware stood about five feet nine, a trim, middle-aging man in 1934, with a plain face, masked by a quiet earnestness of expression wholly reassuring to people whom quickness of mind makes uncomfortable.

Harold Ware might have been a progressive country agent or a professor of ecology at an agricultural college.

Unlike most American Communists, who managed to pass from one big city to another without seeing anything in the intervening spaces, Harold Ware was absorbed in the land and its problems.

Harold Ware held that, with the deepening of the agricultural crisis, and with the rapid mechanization of agriculture, the time had come for revolutionary organization among farmers.

Once the New Deal was in full swing, Hal Harold Ware was like a man who has bought a farm sight unseen only to discover that the crops are all in and ready to harvest.

Pressman's 1950 testimony provided the first corroboration of Chambers' allegation that a Washington, DC, Communist group around Harold Ware existed, with federal officials Nathan Witt, John Abt and Charles Kramer named by Pressman as members of this party cell.

Harold Ware wanted me to try to get into the Foreign Service and be attached to the staff of William Bullitt, our first Ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Harold Ware married Margaret Stephens: in 1916, she died three weeks after birth of their second child, Nancy Stephens Harold Ware.

Harold Ware was reported in the Communist Party press as having died of "acute pancreatitis, a rare disease of one of the digestive organs of the stomach," rumored to be a cover story for a botched illegal abortion, on September 27,1923.

Harold Ware died the next Tuesday at the hospital in Harrisburg, never regaining consciousness after the crash.

Harold Ware was memorialized with a chapter in the memoir written by his more famous mother, Ella Reeve Bloor, in 1940:.

Harold Ware had a startlingly vivid imagination, and an urge and talent for organizing that continued and marked his whole life.

Harold Ware grew slim and tall, and when we moved to Arden was captain of the baseball team and a leader in tennis and other games.

Harold Ware missed a lot of school because of his siege of tuberculosis, but he read a lot and was always able to make up two or three years of ordinary schooling in a few months of intensive study.

Harold Ware started raising truck in a small garden in Arden, and sold it around the countryside.

Harold Ware used to tell me his dreams of a life in the open, alone on a hillside, a sea of green tree tops below him.

Harold Ware left behind four children: Judith, David, Nancy, and Robin.

Hal Harold Ware's half-brother, Carl Reeve, was a lifelong activist in the Communist Party.