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Harry Canter, was secretary of the Boston Communist Party USA in the early 1930s.

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Soviet Sojourn

After his release Harry Canter moved his family, including son David Canter to the Soviet Union.[3];

There Harry Canter was employed by the Soviet government translating Lenin’s works from Russian to English.

Around 1930, the family was invited to go over to the Soviet Union, so that Harry Canter could teach printing techniques to the Russians. They were translating ideological papers into English at that time. Evan Canter has several volumes of translated works that he printed, including a series of Lenin’s translated papers that actually have Harry Canter’s name in them.[4]

Harry Canter’s devotion to the Communist cause, even earned him an audience with Stalin in 1932.

Chicago

By 1946 the family had turned up in Chicago, where Harry Canter worked for many years as Secretary of Chicago Local 16 of the International Typographical Union.

Harry Canter eventually worked as a proofreader for newspapers, the Chicago Daily News, and, possibly, the Sun, until he retired. He was also a union organizer [Chicago Typographical Union #16].[5]

Circa 1948, Harry Canter was part of a group which purchased a communist newspaper, the Chicago Star from its owner Frank Marshall Davis, who was about to leave the mainland for Hawaii.

Harry Canter later moved to San Fransisco, where he remained active in leftist causes. David Canter however remained in Illinois...

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The FBI first began tracking Davis in 1944, after having identified him as member of the Communist Party’s Dorie Miller Club in Chicago. Over a nineteen-year span (1944-63), the Bureau compiled a 601-page file on Davis. One document therein suggests that Davis’s CPUSA affiliations had begun as early as 1931. Moreover, the FBI listed Davis in its security index, meaning that he could be arrested or detained in the event of a national emergency.

In early 1945, the FBI identified Davis as a member of the Carver Second Ward West of the Communist Political Association. The following year, the Bureau identified him as a member of the Carver Club of the Communist Party. Davis’ wife, meanwhile, was a member of the Paul Robeson Club of the Communist Party of Chicago.

From 1944-47, Davis served as vice chairman of the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, a communist front. He then spent a year as a national board member of the Civil Rights Congress, a Communist front.

In 1946 Davis co-founded the Chicago Star, a weekly publication secretly controlled by the Communist Party; he would serve as its executive editor until 1948. The Star was unabashedly pro-communist, consistently echoing the CPUSA/Soviet party line. Indeed, the paper would periodically print statements on U.S. domestic politics from Joseph Stalin, or carry an exclusive interview with Vyacheslav Molotov, the high-ranking Soviet politician and diplomat. In addition to his editorial duties, Davis wrote a weekly column for the Star, titled “Frank-ly Speaking,” which endorsed every conceivable Soviet foreign-policy initiative while accusing all anti-communists of fascism and racism. Davis’s writing was also replete with rich veins of anti-Americanism. On November 9, 1946, for example, he wrote: “I’m tired of being beaned with those double meaning words like ‘sacred institutions’ and ‘the American way of life’ which our flag-waving fascists and lukewarm liberals hurl at us day and night.”

Also in the 1940s, Davis wrote for the left-wing Chicago Defender, a publication heavily influenced by the Communist Party USA.

From 1946-48, Davis attended Communist Party Cultural Club meetings in Chicago. During this period, he taught a course at Chicago’s Abraham Lincoln High School, which was run by the CPUSA and had been cited by the U.S. government as a subversive organization and a Communist front.

Additional Communist-front organizations with which Davis was affiliated in the Forties were: the Chicago Committee for Spanish Freedom, American Youth for Democracy (which was the youth wing of the CPUSA), the National Association for Constitutional Liberties, the League of American Writers, and the National Negro Congress. Also in the mid- to late 1940s, Davis was affiliated with the Communist-line publication Chicago Star.

In 1947 Davis was a signatory to a petition urging Congress to abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), branding the latter as an “undemocratic” entity whose work would inevitably result in “the ultimate suppression of all traditional American civil liberties.”

In 1948 Davis published his most ambitious poetry collection, entitled 47th Street: Poems, chronicling life on Chicago’s South Side.

In April 1948 Davis was listed as a member of the Citizens’ Committee to Aid Packing-House Workers, a Chicago-based organization dominated by the CPUSA.

Also in 1948, Davis’ good friend Paul Robeson, who himself was a dedicated Stalinist, persuaded Davis to move to Honoloulu, Hawaii.

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http://www.conservapedia.com/Paul_Robeson

Robeson’s political statements and activism, including sympathies expressed towards the Soviet Union, Lenin, Mao Zedong, Josip Broz Tito and Joseph Stalin were the subject of great controversy in the mass media, in particular rumors of membership in the American Communist Party.

Robeson first visited the Soviet Union in 1934, during[4] a genocide[5] in which the Soviet government intentionally[6] murdered some 14 million of its own citizens through deliberate starvation[7] in an engineered famine.[8] Upon his return, the official Communist Party organ The Daily Worker published an interview with Robeson, in which he gushed about the “workers’ paradise”:[9]

“ I was not prepared for the happiness I see on every face in Moscow,” said Robeson. “I was aware that there was no starvation here, but I was not prepared for the bounding life; the feeling of safety and abundance and freedom that I find here, wherever I turn. I was not prepared for the endless friendliness, which surrounded me from the moment I crossed the border. I had a technically irregular passport, but all this was brushed aside by the eager helpfulness of the border authorities. ”

Robeson was asked about Stalin’s then-ongoing bloody purges:

“ Commenting on the recent execution after court-martial of a number of counter-revolutionary terrorists, Robeson declared roundly: “From what I have already seen of the workings of the Soviet Government, I can only say that anybody who lifts his hand against it ought to be shot!
“It is the government’s duty to put down any opposition to this really free society with a firm hand,” he continued, “and I hope they will always do it ... It is obvious that there is no terror here...”