Eric Hass (March 4, 1905 – October 2, 1980) was a four-time Socialist Labor candidate for

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Life

Hass was of

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ancestry, and was born in

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in 1905. He died of a heart attack in Community Hospital,

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on October 2, 1980.

State elections

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, he ran for

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. In

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, he ran for

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. In

1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 crashes in a snowstorm. All 19 ...

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

and

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...

, he ran for Governor of New York.

Presidential elections

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, his running mate was Stephen Emery; in

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and

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; and in

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. He came in third place in 1964. Hass was also a prolific author on topics dealing with

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and one of the SLP's more influential members.

Bibliography

* ''John L. Lewis Exposed'' (1937) * ''The Socialist industrial unionism the workers' power'' (1941) * ''Labor Draft: Step To Industrial Slavery'' (1943) * ''The Americanism of Socialism'' (1944) * ''Stalinist Imperialism: the social and economic forces behind Russian expansion'' (1946) * ''The Socialist Labor Party and the Internationals'' (1949) * ''Dave Beck, labor merchant. The case history of a labor leader'' (1955) * ''Militarism Labor's Foe!'' (1955) * ''What workers should know about automation ...and what employers don't tell them'' (1957) * ''The Reactionary Right: Incipient Fascism'' (1966)

External links

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