Samuel Krieger was an American union organizer, IWW member, Teamsters member, and communist.
15 Facts About Samuel Krieger
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Samuel Krieger was born in Russia on August 20,1902.
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Samuel Krieger came with his family to the United States at age two.
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Samuel Krieger had been arrested; the American Civil Liberties Union helped gain his release.
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Samuel Krieger served as an international representative for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.
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Samuel Krieger took Chambers to his first-ever meeting of the Communist Party.
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At the time, Chambers claimed, Samuel Krieger was circulation manager of the Statesman, a Yonkers-based newspaper.
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Samuel Krieger got Chambers to study Marxism, most notably at the Rand School in a class on "the law of social revolution" taught by Scott Nearing.
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Samuel Krieger worked with the Teamsters until retirement in 1972.
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Samuel Krieger partook in the "Radical Elders Oral History Project".
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Samuel Krieger was survived by his wife, Sadie, and two daughters.
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In 1978, over a footnote, Krieger sued for libel against Allen Weinstein, author of Perjury; Alfred A Knopf, Inc.
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The process of the lawsuit more firmly established that Samuel Krieger had in fact been a member of the Communist Party.
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Samuel Krieger said he is surrendering his privacy to step out and deny what Weinstein has written about him.
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Samuel Krieger was charged once with inciting breach of the peace and twice with inciting to riot.