George J. Papcun
April 25, 1904 – January 1975
Life and Works:
1924: Young Workers League Active in Cleveland, Daily Worker, October 11, 1924
1924: Jailed Miners in Appeal to Save the Union, Daily Worker, November 3, 1924
1924: Progressive Coal Miners in Big Election Drive in Pennsylvania, Daily Worker, November 14, 1924
1924: Unemployment Very Severe in Cleveland, Ohio, Daily Worker, December 10, 1924
1924: Cleveland State Hospital Patients Victims of Graft, Daily Worker, December 15, 1924
1924: Ohio Labor to Oppose State Cossack Rule, Daily Worker, December 17, 1924
1924: Young Workers League Active in Cleveland, Daily Worker, October 11, 1924
1925: Misery Grows Among Jobless in Cleveland, Daily Worker, February 20, 1925
1925: Comrade Loses Job for Trade Union Activity, Daily Worker, February 21, 1925
1925: How They Frame-up Young Workers at Fort Ben C.M.T.C., Young Worker, August 22, 1925
1925: Miners of Coke Region Begin Strike Against the Wage Cut in Force With the 1917 Scale, Daily Worker, November 11, 1925
1925: Strike Against Wage Cut Spreads in Coke Region, Daily Worker, November 12, 1925
1925: Class War Rages in Pa. Mines, Daily Worker, November 14, 1925
1925: For Y.W.L. Unity in Pittsburgh, Young Worker, November 14, 1925
1925: Police Raid Miners' Hall; Slug Pickets, Daily Worker, November 21, 1925
1925: Union Official Attacks Young Workers League, Daily Worker, December 13, 1925
1925: Miner's Home Dynamited in Strike Field, Daily Worker, December 17, 1925
1925: "Lessons" in the C.M.T.C., Daily Worker, December 26, 1925
1925: To All Young Workers in East Ohio and Vicinity, Young Worker, December 26, 1925
1925: Campaign for Working Youth Conference in East Ohio Started, Daily Worker, December 30, 1925
1926: Disaster in Shadyside Mine Costs Workers Nine Lives, Young Worker, January 9, 1926
1926: Geo. Papcun Tours E. Ohio, Young Worker, January 9, 1926
1926: What the Party Must Do to Help the League, Daily Worker, January 23, 1926
1926: Fayette County Police Break Up Lenin Meeting. Draw Guns on Workers; Arrest Papcun, Daily Worker, January 27, 1926
1926: Coal Operators Arrest Papcun for Union Work, Daily Worker, February 3, 1926
1926: Fayette County Police Try to Frameup Papcun, Daily Worker, February 4, 1926
1926: Pittsburgh Coal Co. Responsible for Mine Deaths, Daily Worker, February 9, 1926
1926: Mass Meetings Will Protest Papcun Arrest, Daily Worker, February 14, 1926
1926: Pennsylvania Cossacks Arrest Papcun Before Free Speech Meeting, Daily Worker, February 24, 1926
1926: Unity Young and Adult Workers Is Keynote of Youth Conference, Daily Worker, February 28, 1926
1926: Papcun Arrested in Republic, Penna., Labor Defender, March 1926
1926: Police Arrest Mailer Pickets in Pittsburgh, Daily Worker, March 25, 1926
1926: Labor Fackers Give Pinchot Election Aid, Daily Worker, April 1, 1926
1926: Dynamite Scare Used to Smash Miners' Strike, Daily Worker, April 1, 1926
1926: Coaldigger is Framed Up by Company Dicks, Daily Worker, April 6, 1926
1926: Problems of the Pittsburgh League, Part I;, Part II, Daily Worker, April 6-7, 1926
1926: Shitdown of W. Va. Mines Lays Off 1,700, Daily Worker, April 7, 1926
1926: Anti-Union Politics by the Miners' Union Officials, Daily Worker Special Magazine Supplement, April 17, 1926
1926: May Day and Child Health Day, Daily Worker, May 2, 1926
1926: Pennsyvania Labor Is Facing Many Problems, Daily Worker, May 12, 1926
1926: Papcun Faces Sedition Trial Monday, June 28, Daily Worker, June 23, 1926
1926: Nine Jurors Chosen in the Papcun Trial, Daily Worker, July 1, 1926
1926: Papcun Trial Opens Taking of Testimony, Daily Worker, July 3, 1926
1926: Company Tools Testify Against Papcun in Trial, Daily Worker, July 3, 1926
1926: George Papcun Case Will End in Court Today, Daily Worker, July 4, 1926
1926: Steel Company Court Declares Papcun Guilty, Daily Worker, July 8, 1926
1926: The Case of George Papcun, William F. Dunne, Daily Worker, July 11, 1926
1926: George Papcun is Convicted, Max Shachtman, Labor Defender, September 1926
1926: Pennsylvania State Labor Must Live Up to Anti-Militarist Decision, Daily Worker, October 29, 1926
1926: War Mongers and Peace Makers Hold Confabs in Pittsburgh, Daily Worker, November 11, 1926
1926: John L. Lewis Ignores Problem Arising from New Mine Machines, Daily Worker, December 10, 1926
1927: Mine Workers, Non-Union, Out on Wage Strike, Daily Worker, January 11, 1927
1927: Judgement Arrested in Papcun Case; Communist Convicted of Sedition, Daily Worker, October 22, 1927
1927: The Fake Co-Operative Conference, Daily Worker, November 21, 1927
1927: Anthracite Unemployment, Daily Worker, December 30, 1927
1928: Anthracite Miners War on Dismissal, Daily Worker, February 22, 1928
1928: Spend $1,000,000 to Build Penn. National Guard, Daily Worker, February 28, 1928
1928: Miners to Hold Demonstrations, Daily Worker, February 29, 1928
1928: "Smash Murder Marchine!" Miners Say, Daily Worker, March 1, 1928
1928: What About the Anthracite?, Labor Unity, March 1928
1928: Papcun Outlines Bitter Fight in Big Tri-District, Daily Worker, March 31, 1928
1928: Papcun Defies State Troopers, Daily Worker, May 9, 1928
1928: District 1 Miners Ask Convention, Daily Worker, May 16, 1928
1928: Brennan-Harris Convention Acts to Betray Miners; Ousts George Papcun, Daily Worker, May 24, 1928
1928: Union Leader Warns Miners in Anthracite. Papcun Shows Danger Facing Coal Diggers, Daily Worker, July 18, 1928
1928: The Struggle in the Anthracite, Labor Unity, August 1928
1930: Lovestone Renegades Lose in a Conspiracy Against the Party, [Statement of George Papcun] Daily Worker, December 29, 1930
1931: Who Is George Papcun? A Statement by J. Shaffer, Revolutionary Age, February 28, 1931
1931: Omaha, Neb. Workers Rally to TUUL, Party on Labor Day Meeting, Daily Worker, September 14, 1931
1931: Council Bluffs Police, Sheriffs, Kidnap, Beat Up Communists, Daily Worker, October 29, 1931
1931: Warning Against Renegade and Traitorous Element [George Papcun], Daily Worker, December 23, 1931
1932: New Militant Forces Join the Ranks of the Left Opposition. Papcun's Statement, The Militant, October 29, 1932