Jacob Benjamin Salutsky

[2] Salutsky was politicized at a young age, embracing Marxism and joining the General Jewish Labor Bund in 1902.

For a time, he served as translator-secretary of the JFS and editor of the Federation's weekly, Di Naye Welt ("The New World"), from 1914 to 1920.

[4] As editor of Di Naye Welt, Salutsky strove to make it as an outlet through which his audience of Jewish immigrants could be familiarized with the mainstream American culture of the time.

"[5] Di Naye Welt also published biting criticism against the extreme radicalism of the underground Communist Party of America: "the further they go, the more one can define them as a tendency of humbug, bluff, and demagogy.

[2] In the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, he served as director of education and cultural activities for 24 years as well as editor of the union's official publication, The Advance, from 1925 to 1944.

[2] Hardman then came into the orbit of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party over the next few years and supported US President Franklin Roosevelt by 1936.

[2] In World War II, Hardman helped to organize the American Labor Press Association and served as its president.

"[11] He also served as chairman of the Inter-Union Institute, an inclusive forum for men of various noncommunist leftists to discuss the labor movement.