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==Communist Years==
==Communist Years==
[[Image:Document54.GIF|thumb|400px|right|'''Document 54''' from Soviet Archives. Alexander and Earl [Browder] to [William] Foster, 11 July 1928, RTsKhIDNI 534–6–137. Original in English. At this time Browder was working for the Comintern and serving as the first general secretary of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat. "Alexander" was the alias of a Profintern official named Keetagnian.<ref>''The Soviet World of American Communism'', Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Kyrill M. Anderson, Yale University Press, 1996, p. 187, 190.</ref>]]
[[Image:Document54.GIF|thumb|400px|right|'''Document 54''' from Soviet Archives. Alexander and [[Earl Browder|Earl [Browder]]] to [William] Foster, 11 July 1928, RTsKhIDNI 534–6–137. Original in English. At this time Browder was working for the Comintern and serving as the first general secretary of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat. "Alexander" was the alias of a Profintern official named Keetagnian.<ref>''The Soviet World of American Communism'', Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Kyrill M. Anderson, Yale University Press, 1996, p. 187, 190.</ref>]]
After playing a lead organizing role in the Steel Strike of 1919<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1919/10/26/archives/sees-steel-strike-as-unions-crisis-william-z-foster-tells-workers.html SEES STEEL STRIKE AS UNIONS' CRISIS; William Z. Foster Tells Workers That Autocracy Will Reign if Strike Fails. SAYS 300,000 MEN ARE OUT Overflow Crowds at Cooper Union Addressed by Abraham Lefkowitz.], [[The New York Times]]</ref> Foster joined the newly formed [[American Communist Party]] (CPUSA). He ran for the U.S. Presidency on the CPUSA ticket in 1924 and 1928 with Benjamin Gitlow for Vice President, and 1932 with James W. Ford.
After playing a lead organizing role in the Steel Strike of 1919<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1919/10/26/archives/sees-steel-strike-as-unions-crisis-william-z-foster-tells-workers.html SEES STEEL STRIKE AS UNIONS' CRISIS; William Z. Foster Tells Workers That Autocracy Will Reign if Strike Fails. SAYS 300,000 MEN ARE OUT Overflow Crowds at Cooper Union Addressed by Abraham Lefkowitz.], [[The New York Times]]</ref> Foster joined the newly formed [[American Communist Party]] (CPUSA). He ran for the U.S. Presidency on the CPUSA ticket in 1924 and 1928 with Benjamin Gitlow for Vice President, and 1932 with James W. Ford.