Occupation Journalist Name Harry Gannes | Role Editor | |
Spouse(s) Pearl Roth Gannes (third marriage) Children daughter from second marriage, son (David) from third marriage Died January 3, 1941, New York City, New York, United States Books When China unites, Spain in revolt |
Harry Gannes (1900 – 1941), foreign editor of the Daily Worker during much of the 1930’s, was an American communist of national prominence.
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Biography
Harry Gannes was one of the founders (in 1922) of the Young Workers League, the predecessor of the Young Communist League, serving briefly as its general secretary. As foreign editor of the Daily Worker he was a mentor to Theodore Draper, with whom he coauthored Spain in Revolt in 1936. His book When China Unites, 1937, based on research and experiences during a trip to China in 1932-33, describes the Kuomintang-Communist alliance of the mid-1920s and the confrontations between the two parties from 1927 on. Gannes traveled to China, and later to Europe (1938) using a passport under the name Henry George Jacobs. For this he was indicted for passport fraud in 1939. At almost the same time, he fell ill and was diagnosed with a brain tumor, from which he died on 3 January 1941.