American Labor party

“When the American Labor Party lost their status, they never regained it. When the Right to Life party lost it, I don’t think it ever regained its status. And the Liberal Party never regained it.”

Finally, the FBI report accused Piel of membership in the American Labor Party, a Progressive group allied with Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York, to which Piel said, “I certainly was.”

In 1947, as a member of the American Labor party, he MC-ed a charity evening at Carnegie Hall in New York for veterans of the Spanish civil war, an event that caught the attention of the FBI.

Among his opponents were Elmer Carter, a Republican member of the state’s new Commission Against Discrimination, and Andronicus Jacobs, a longshoreman who’d fought to secure equal pay and benefits for black dock workers and ran on the American Labor Party ticket.

Her movie career stalled during the blacklist period; her political career was capped in 1954 when she ran unsuccessfully as the American Labor Party candidate for lieutenant governor of New York.