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Ella Reeve Bloor also known as
Ella Bloor' and
Mother Bloor but born
Ella Reeve (
1862–
1951) was a radical labor organizer,
socialist and
communist in the
United States.
She was born on
Staten Island, on
July 8,
1862, and grew up in
Bridgeton, New Jersey. She was married first to Lucien Ware, then Louis Cohen, and finally Andrew Omholt. After marrying Lucian Ware when she was nineteen, she was a mother of four by 1892. Her son,
Harold Ware, founded the
Washington, D.C. based "Ware group" of United States federal government employees who spied for the
Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s.
Bloor became involved in several reform movements including the prohibitionist
Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and women's suffrage and wrote two books,
Three Little Lovers of Nature (1895) and
Talks About Authors and Their Work (1899).
In 1897 she joined with
Eugene V. Debs and
Victor Berger to form the
Social Democratic Party (SDP). The following year she moved to the more radical
Socialist Labor Party that was led by
Daniel De Leon. However, in 1902 she became a member of the
Socialist Party of America (SPA).
Bloor worked as a trade union organizer and helped during industrial disputes in
Pennsylvania,
Michigan,
Colorado,
Ohio and
New York. In 1905 she helped a fellow member of the Socialist Party of America, the author,
Upton Sinclair, to gather information on the
Chicago stock yards. This material eventually appeared in Sinclair's best-selling book,
The Jungle.
A leading figure in the Socialist Party of America, she ran several times unsuccessfully for political office, including secretary of state for
Connecticut, Governor of Pennsylvania, and lieutenant governor of New York.
Bloor, a member of the left-wing faction of the Socialist Party of America, was expelled from the party in 1919. Bloor joined with others ousted from the SPA to form the
Communist Party USA. In 1921 and 1922 attended the second conventions of the
Comintern in Moscow and was a member of the party's central committee (1932-48).
After the
German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Bloor became an advocate of American participation in
World War II. Later she argued for an early invasion of
Europe to create a Second Front.
Ella Reeve Bloor's autobiography,
We Are Many, was published in 1940, and is the basis for the
Woody Guthrie song,
1913 Massacre. She died in
Richlandtown, Pennsylvania on
10 August 1951, and is buried in
Harleigh Cemetery,
Camden, New Jersey.
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