Anne Burlak Timpson | |
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| Born | Anne Burlak May 24, 1911 Slatington, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | July 9, 2002 (aged 91) |
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Arthur E. Timpson (m. 1939) |
| Children | 2 |
Anne Burlak Timpson (May 24, 1911[1] – July 9, 2002) was an early twentieth-century leader in labor organizing and leftist political movements. A member of the National Textile Workers Union and Communist Party, Burlak was jailed numerous times for sedition. Based in New England for much of her adult life, Burlak was a candidate for local and state offices in Rhode Island and played a major role in crafting the National Recovery Administration's workplace standards for textile unions during the New Deal era.
- ^ Pecinovsky, Tony (2020-03-27). "Anne Burlak: The red flame". Communist Party USA. Retrieved 2021-09-23.