‘Comrade Jennie Potter Boehm’ from The Toiler. No. 95. November 26, 1919.

Comrade Jennie Potter Boehm, a well-known Socialist speaker and agitator, died at her home in, Conneaut, Ohio on Nov. 7th. from acute pyorrhea and a complication of other diseases.

Comrade Boehm was a well-known socialist of the more radical school, and her services to the movement will be appreciated by a large circle of friends and acquaintances among whom are many of the best known writers and speakers on the socialist rostrum.

Comrade Boehm was well qualified for the role of an educator on socialist doctrine. She was a member of the Lake Erie College Alumnae class of 1899, and in 1905 took a course in socialism at the Mills School in Kansas City under Robt. Lamont and Geo. R. Kirkpatrick. Here she made the acquaintance of Kate Richards Ohare, Tom Lewis, Martha Beigler, and a host of socialist speakers who have since become famous as socialist educators, all of whom paid tribute to her exceptionally bright mind and her keen analysis of currant political events from a socialist viewpoint.

In 1907 Comrade Boehm attended the Rand School in New York City, and was assigned to many speaking engagements in the City and nearby towns. Her many friends here will learn of her untimely death with keen regret. While in New York she was married to Max Boehm and shortly thereafter the two removed to her home city in Conneaut, Ohio.

Comrade Boehm leaves to mourn her a six years old son her husband and wide circle of friends, thruout the states.

The Toiler was a significant regional, later national, newspaper of the early Communist movement published weekly between 1919 and 1921. It grew out of the Socialist Party’s ‘The Ohio Socialist’, leading paper of the Party’s left wing and northern Ohio’s militant IWW base and became the national voice of the forces that would become The Communist Labor Party. The Toiler was first published in Cleveland, Ohio, its volume number continuing on from The Ohio Socialist, in the fall of 1919 as the paper of the Communist Labor Party of Ohio. The Toiler moved to New York City in early 1920 and with its union focus served as the labor paper of the CLP and the legal Workers Party of America. Editors included Elmer Allison and James P Cannon. The original English language and/or US publication of key texts of the international revolutionary movement are prominent features of the Toiler. In January 1922, The Toiler merged with The Workers Council to form The Worker, becoming the Communist Party’s main paper continuing as The Daily Worker in January, 1924.

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