United States Congress in the 16th Congressional District of New York. Union activities In 1922, Ballam was named the New England organizer for the Textile Workers' Union of the Trade Union Educational League. Ballam was involved as a union leader in the 1926 Passaic Textile Strike. He appeared as himself in the documentary film on the strike produced by the Workers (Communist) Party of America to publicize the plight of the strikers. Ballam was named the National Organizer of the National Textile Workers Union, part of the Communist Party-sponsored Trade Union Unity League in 1933. In this capacity he was active in helping direct the 1933 strike of workers in the silk industry, a stoppage which involved as many as 65,000 workers in New Jersey and elsewhere in the east. Death and legacy John J. Ballam died in 1954. Footnotes Works "Report of the Secretary of the Central Caucus to the National Conference of the Communist Party of America, December 25, 1921." Corvallis, OR: 1000 Flowers Publishing, 2007. "Testimony to the Executive Committee of the Communist International, March 18, 1922." Corvallis, OR: 1000 Flowers Publishing, 2007. "Uphold Your Revolutionary Traditions!" Daily Worker [Chicago], vol. 3, no. 59 (March 22, 1926), pg. 4. Soviet "Dumping" and "Forced Labor." New York: Friends of Soviet Russia, n.d. [c. 1929]. 70,000 Silk Workers Strike for Bread and Unity.'' New York: Labor Unity Publications, 1934. External links Tim Davenport, "Introduction to The Worker (1919–1920)," Marxists Internet Archive, www.marxists.org/ —Edited by Ballam. Includes links to 5 of the 6 issues ever produced. 1882 births 1954 deaths People from Boston Members of the Socialist Party of America Members of the Communist Party USA Communist Party USA politicians American communists American Marxists Industrial Workers of the World members American trade union leaders People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 20th-century American politicians American trade unionists of English descent Trade unionists from Massachusetts English emigrants to the United States