Harry Gannes (1900–1941), was a British-born American journalist, foreign editor of the Daily Worker during much of the 1930s, was a communist of national prominence.
[1][2] 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.
[3] As foreign editor of the Daily Worker he was a mentor to Theodore Draper,[4] with whom he coauthored Spain in Revolt in 1936.
Gannes traveled to China, and later to Europe (1938) using a passport under the name Henry George Jacobs.
At almost the same time, he fell ill and was diagnosed with a brain tumor, from which he died on 3 January 1941.