Max Weiss (activist)


Max Weiss served as "Educational Director" and/or "Secretary of the National Education Commission" of the Communist Party USA, was a member of the Party's National Committee, edited Political Affairs , and wrote often for the Party's The Communist magazine during the 1930s and 1940s.

Career

Weiss served as general secretary of the Young Communist League. In 1926, he wrote for the "Spartacist Group" of Illinois in Young Comrade: Paper for Workers' and Farmers' Children.
Weiss served as Educational Director and/or Secretary of the "National Education Commission" of the Communist Party USA and was a member of the Party's National Committee. He also edited Political Affairs.
In February 1944, Weiss' fellow members of a sub-committee of the National Committee included: William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, James W. Ford, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Israel Amter, Rose Wortis, Ray Hansbrough, Steve Nelson, Louis Todd, Sam Don, Alexander Trachtenberg, A. Landy, John Williamson, Mother Bloor, Anita Whitney, Charles Krumbein, Rob Hall, Pettis Perry, Alfred Wagenknecht, and V. J. Jerome.
In 1951, during HUAC hearings on Communist infiltration in Hollywood, "Max Weiss" received mention during discussion of Irving Henschel. Roy M. Brewer, a IATSE leader, described Henschel as "lead of the Communist faction in 1944" and "member of the Rank and File Committee wich attempted to set up a revolt in our organization during the 1945 strike in Hollywood." When Henschel contacted CPUSA official Max Weiss in Ohio, Weiss reported Henschel's conduct to Roy Hudson in New York. The witness mentions "Weiss was at that time a Communist Party functionary in Ohio."

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