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Muste is best remembered for his work in the labor movement, pacifist movement, and the US civil rights movement.
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As the means so the end ...” A contemporary quote sometimes attributed to Gandhi, but also to A. J. Muste, sums it up: ' There is no way to peace ; peace is the way.
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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.
Muste's father, Martin Muste, was a coachman who drove for a family that was part of Zeeland's hereditary nobility.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
" 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 work
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 labor
During this period Muste cemented his reputation as a recognized leader of the American labor movement.
* A. J. Muste, pacifist, labor, and civil rights activist
Muste and movement
Muste resigned his position on the LIPA Executive Committee in December 1930 in protest over Dewey's appeal to U. S. Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska to quit the Republican Party to head the third party movement.
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.
At the end of his life, Muste took a leadership role in the movement against the Vietnam War.
A. J. Muste became disgusted as well and left the radical political movement to return to his roots in the church.
Muste and pacifist
* 1885 – A. J. Muste, Dutch pacifist and activist ( d. 1967 )
A committed pacifist, Muste joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation shortly after its founding in 1916.
In 1936 Muste resigned from the Workers Party and left socialist politics to return to his roots as a Christian pacifist.
In 1957, Muste headed a delegation of pacifist and democratic observers to the 16th National Convention of the Communist Party.
* A. J. Muste, writer, professor, pacifist
Muste, the CNVA merged with the pacifist War Resisters League.
Muste and US
Muste: The 20th Century's Most Famous US Pacifist ," Friends Journal, April 2006.
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Muste, Robert Pickus, and Bayard Rustin.
Muste, forming the Workers Party of the United States.
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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 ( 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.
With his economic prospects limited in Holland, Martin Muste decided to follow four of his wife Adriana's brothers to emigration in America, making the cross-Atlantic trip as Third Class passengers in January 1891.
Muste attended Hope College in the not-accidentally-named Holland, Michigan, located just west of Grand Rapids on the coast of Lake Michigan.
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