12 Facts About Nat Ganley

Nat Ganley was tried and convicted in 1954 for violating the Smith Act, but his conviction was later overturned.

Nat Ganley was born Nathan Kaplan on November 26,1903, in New York City.

In 1919, Ganley became a communist and became national secretary for the Young Workers' League of America.

Nat Ganley organized for the Trade Union Unity League and American Federation of Labor locals including the Poultry Workers Union, Packing House Workers, and Riggers Union.

In March 1939, Nat Ganley negotiated a 7-cent raise for the UAW-CIO's Saginaw Local 537 with US Graphite Co.

In mid-March 1939, Ganley was elected to the Resolutions Committee of the national UAW-CIO.

Nat Ganley announced that the CIO would not contest the firings because the United States was at war.

In March 1948, "Stalinist" Nat Ganley found himself voted out of his role as business agent after the Local 155 election, when Walter Reuther won over John Anderson as president, as reported by the Third-Camp Trotskyist publication Labor Action.

In 1953, African-American former communist William O'Dell Nowell testified that Ganley had been one of his trainers at the International Lenin School in Moscow.

Nat Ganley helped organize first United CIO and AFL Labor Day parade in Detroit.

Nat Ganley had warned them that I had doubts, that I had said that I was no longer able to edit the Daily Worker.

Nat Ganley's papers became embroiled in controversy in 1996, when his name resurfaced in an article by Martin Glaberman the independent socialist journal Monthly Review over the issue of whether Walter Reuther was ever a CPUSA member:.