Successor | California Labor School |
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Formation | 1934 |
Dissolved | circa 1942 |
Purpose | educational, propagandist, indoctrinal |
Headquarters | 121 Haight Street, San Francisco |
Services | ideological training center of CPUSA, adult education |
Key people | Samuel Adams Darcy, Benjamin Ellisberg, Langston Hughes, Lincoln Steffens, Anita Whitney |
Affiliations | Communist Party USA |
The San Francisco Workers' School was an ideological training center of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) established in San Francisco for adult education in 1934. "It was a typical specimen of a Communist school, such as would come under investigation by federal and state authorities for decades afterward.".[1] in the 1940, it emerged as the California Labor School.