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Muste and Bertrand Russell, admired and praised Kahn's work, because they felt it presented a strong case for full disarmament by suggesting that nuclear war was all but unavoidable.
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Muste, Greg Calvert, David McReynolds and numerous Black Panthers, including Fred Hampton, whom he greatly admired.
Muste and work
Muste is best remembered for his work in the labor movement, pacifist movement, and the US civil rights movement.
Following his resignation, Muste did volunteer work for Boston chapter of the newly established Civil Liberties Bureau, a legal aid organization which defended both political and pacifist war resisters.
Through it all Muste continued to work as a labor activist, leading the victorious Toledo Auto-Lite strike of 1934.
Muste went to work as the director of the Presbyterian Labor Temple in New York City from 1937 to 1940.
In 1949, Lester Granger was appointed Executive Secretary and led the NUL's effort to support the March on Washington proposed by A. Phillip Randolph, Bayard Rustin and A. J. Muste to protest racial discrimination in defense work and the Armed Forces.
Muste and because
Muste remained as pastor of the Fort Washington Collegiate Church on Washington Heights until 1914 when he left the Reformed Church because he no longer ascribed to the Westminster Confession of Faith, the set of fundamental principles of the denomination.
Muste and they
Muste later recalled of his fellow Reformed Dutch Church members that they were " all Republicans and would no more have voted for a Democrat than turned horse thief.
A. J. Muste wrote him back asking him about money to fund it and how they would get members.
Muste and Karl H. Meyer, the son of Vermont Senator William Meyer, were arrested and handcuffed as they climbed the fence to invade the site.
Muste and case
After a week behind bars, the case against Muste for allegedly disturbing the peace was dismissed ; the strike continued without interruption, despite the jailing of Muste and more than 100 strikers.
Muste and for
Muste's father, Martin Muste, was a coachman who drove for a family that was part of Zeeland's hereditary nobility.
At Hope College Muste was class valedictorian, captain of the school's basketball team, and played second base for the baseball squad.
Following graduation, Muste taught Latin and Greek for the 1905-06 academic year at Northwestern Classical Academy ( now Northwestern College ) in Orange City, Iowa.
Muste was influenced by the prevalent theology of the social gospel began to read the written ideas of various radical thinkers of the day, going so far as to vote for Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs for President of the United States in 1912.
Muste would later claim that he never again voted for a Republican or Democrat for a major national or state office.
Muste received use of a home and money for expenses in exchange for pastoral services.
Muste spoke to assembled workers, assured them that he would lend whatever help he could in raising money for the relief of strikers and their families, and was soon invited to become executive secretary of the ad hoc strike committee established by the still unorganized workers.
Muste became the spokesman for some 30, 000 striking workers, hailing from more than 20 countries.
" Despite the efforts of agent provocateurs to inspire violence, Muste and the strike committee were able to avoid the outbreak of violence which would have served to discredit the strikers and their objective and give cause for the physical suppression of the labor action.
Muste would serve as head of that fledgling union for two years, finally stepping down from the post in 1921.
In 1929 Muste attempted to organize radical unionists opposed to the passive policies of American Federation of Labor president William Green under the banner of an organization called the Conference for Progressive Labor Action ( CPLA ).
Muste also was a member of the League for Independent Political Action ( LIPA ), a group of liberals and socialists headed by philosopher John Dewey which sought the establishment of a new labor-based third party.
In 1966, Muste traveled with members of the Committee for Non-Violent Action to Saigon and Hanoi.
In 1956, he and A. J. Muste founded the magazine Liberation, as a forum for the non-Marxist left, similar to Dissent.
A. J. Muste was Chair of Manumit Associates for a number of years.
Muste and by
While in New Brunswick, Muste took courses in philosophy at New York University and Columbia University, attending lectures by William James and meeting John Dewey, who became a personal friend.
When dissident workers walked off the job in February 1919, only to be met by the use of police truncheons against their pickets, Muste and two other radical ministers with whom he had formed a close friendship became involved.
Muste was himself pulled from the picket line as a strike leader, isolated, and clubbed by police, who eventually deposited him in a wagon and hauled him to jail when he could no longer stand.
United States Fellowship of Reconciliation ( FOR USA ) was founded in 1915 by sixty-eight pacifists, including A. J. Muste, Jane Addams and Bishop Paul Jones, and claims to be the " largest, oldest interfaith peace and justice organization in the United States.
The group was terminated in 1934 when it merged with the American Workers Party headed by A. J. Muste to establish the Workers Party of the United States.
The original Militant terminated in 1934 at the time of the merger of the Cannon-led CLA with the American Workers Party headed by A. J. Muste to form the Workers Party of the United States ( WPUS ).
Muste and war
In 1941, he, Bayard Rustin, and A. J. Muste proposed a march on Washington to protest racial discrimination in war industries and to propose the desegregation of the American Armed forces.
Muste participated in a peace demonstration late in the summer of 1916, with American entry into the European war looming and some parishioners began to withdraw from Muste's congregation.
Muste and was
" Muste ( 1885 – 1967 ) was a Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist.
Muste was born January 8, 1885 in the small port city of Zierikzee, located in the Southwestern province of Zeeland in the Netherlands.
Upon his graduation, Muste was appointed pastor of the Fort Washington Collegiate Church in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.
Later in 1918 Muste moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where he was enrolled as a Quaker minister.
Even while the Lawrence textile strike was going on, Muste traveled to New York City to attend a convention of trade union activists in the textile industry.
Based upon his prominence as the head of the Lawrence textile shutdown, Muste was elected Secretary of this new union.
Muste declared that any such movement must start from the bottom up through the action of organized workers if it was to survive and that it was " of the utmost importance to avoid every appearance of seeking messiahs who are to bring down a third party out of the political heavens.
According to legend, Muste stood outside the White House every night during the Vietnam War, holding a candle, regardless of whether it was raining or not.
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