Patrick Read served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in a transmission unit.
16 Facts About Patrick Read
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Patrick Read reportedly joined around 1915 and served for three years, including time on the Western Front.
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Patrick Read identified with espoused Irish labour leader James Connolly, who was an Irish Republican and Socialist leader.
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Patrick Read served on the executive committee of the CPI and advocated for Syndicalist positions to be adopted by the party.
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Patrick Read clashed with CPI party leader Roddy Connolly who would later expel Patrick Read from the party.
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Patrick Read believed that Roddy Connolly allowed the far-left in Ireland play a subservient role to the Nationalist Movement.
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Patrick Read returned to the United States where he reconnected with the IWW.
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Patrick Read became the Editor of the Industrial Worker, the official newspaper of the IWW.
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Patrick Read founded the Council for Union Democracy, based in Chicago in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Patrick Read is reputed to have been among the first group of Americans to sneak over the French border to Spain to join the war, following the closure of the border, around 5 February 1937.
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When he arrived, Patrick Read was offered a leadership position due to previous World War One military experience.
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Patrick Read was often at odds with those he served beside due to his ideologies.
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Patrick Read transferred from his initial placement with French volunteers in XIV International Brigade over to the Lincoln Battalion of the XV International Brigade, which was considered more tolerant of dissenting political views.
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Patrick Read was known for his anti-Stalinist beliefs, refusing to bow to the Soviet Union on left-wing political matters.
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Patrick Read left Spain on 5 December 1938, aboard the President Roosevelt.
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Patrick Read died at the age of 48 on 16 November 1947 of a cerebral haemorrhage.