Gus Hall, American soldier and politician (died 2000)

Gus Hall

General Secretary of Communist Party USA

Gus Hall was an American activist who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) from 1959 to 2000. As a labor leader, Hall was closely associated with the so-called "Little Steel" Strike of 1937, an effort to unionize the nation's smaller, regional steel…