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‘Comrade Carmine Giampietri Gets Red Funeral’ from The Daily Worker. Vol. 10 No. 232. September 27, 1933.

Akron, OH. A Red Funeral was given Carmine Giampietri, 34, who died at City Hospital recently, after the brutal City Clinic refused to give him a physical examination. After hunger and sickness had wasted away his sturdy body, the city hospital operated on him for bowel trouble. But it was too late.

Carmine joined the Communist Party in 1925. During the past four years he had taken a leading part in the Akron section until sickness compelled him to rest. In 1926-27 he was one of the most active in the organization of the Rubber Workers Union. He was unmarried.

The body of Carmine lay in state at O’Lari Hall where hundreds of workers came to honor their dead comrade. The hall was draped in red and black, and class struggle slogans lined the walls. Beautiful flowers were sent by many organizations and friends. Leading comrades spoke at the funeral services.

Three hundred Negro and white workers marched to Mount Hope Cemetery where he was buried.

The Daily Worker began in 1924 and was published in New York City by the Communist Party US and its predecessor organizations. Among the most long-lasting and important left publications in US history, it had a circulation of 35,000 at its peak. The Daily Worker came from The Ohio Socialist, published by the Left Wing-dominated Socialist Party of Ohio in Cleveland from 1917 to November 1919, when it became became The Toiler, paper of the Communist Labor Party. In December 1921 the above-ground Workers Party of America merged the Toiler with the paper Workers Council to found The Worker, which became The Daily Worker beginning January 13, 1924.

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