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Hyman Lumer

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Ohio
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Communism Labor Organizing Communist Party USA
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Biography

Hyman Lumer was a Cleveland Communist and economist, one of the eight indicted in the 1957 Cleveland Taft-Hartley 'conspiracy' case, alleged to have issued Communist Party instructions to the Haugs. He later became a national party education director and editor.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy to defraud the U.S. via false Taft-Hartley non-Communist affidavits
Sentence: Faced up to five years and a $10,000 fine Verdict as recorded: Indicted January 1957; awaiting trial
Convicted: No — pending trial