"It was a typical specimen of a Communist school, such as would come under investigation by federal and state authorities for decades afterward.".
In 1934, Anita Whitney, Samuel Adams Darcy, Benjamin Ellisberg, Lincoln Steffens, and Steffens' wife Ella Winter supported the establishment of the San Francisco Worker's School, housed at CPUSA headquarters at 121 Haight Street in San Francisco.
[1] The school drew inspiration from the Jack London Memorial Institute (founded 1917[2]).
Like similar workers' schools in New York and Chicago, it held classes at night (after normal work hours) and taught the basics of Communism.
[1] (forthcoming) According to Tenney Committee report of 1947,[3] the following people served on an advisory board for the school: According to a 1953 HUAC hearing,[4] in 1934 the advisory board comprised: According to Stephen Schwartz,[1] the following people taught at the school: According to Stephen Schwartz,[1] the following courses were taught at the school: The school published a journal called Writers' Workshop, edited by activist, novelist, historian Alexander Saxton.