President Joe Biden is expected to sign a proclamation on Monday establishing a national monument in honor of former Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, a registered socialist and a key architect of the New Deal.
March 2024 presidential order It argued that “women’s history is grossly underrepresented in our national park system,” and mandated measures to “strengthen federal recognition of women’s history and the accomplishments of women and girls of all backgrounds.” As part of this effort, the Biden-Harris administration is currently moving Perkins, who served for 12 years as former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s labor secretary, to the site of her childhood home in Maine. A monument is planned to be erected to honor him. Many welfare programs including social security and unemployment insurance According to Go to the White House press release. (Related article: Biden-Harris administration spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to find LGBT landmarks as national parks fall into disrepair)
Raised in a wealthy New England Republican family, Perkins joined the Socialist Party from 1907 to 1909 while living in Philadelphia. According to to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). She later left the party to become a Democrat. prompt Credit to former Democratic New York Governor Alfred Smith, who appointed her to the State Industrial Commission in 1918.
“It was no secret that she was a democratic socialist,” Chris Cash, an education support specialist at the Frances Perkins Center, told DSA. “It was her camp.”
December 1943: Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins (1880-1965) greets President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) upon his return from the Tehran Conference.
Perkins was later promoted to New York State Industrial Commissioner in 1928. held FDR’s role after he was elected governor of New York. When FDR became president in 1933, he selected Perkins to be the U.S. Secretary of Labor, making her the first female Cabinet member.
Mr. Perkins, as Secretary of Labor, helped Work with the Feminist Nonprofit League of Women Voters to design and implement social security and public works programs. description She is the “principal architect of the New Deal.”
Perkins was accused of being a communist sympathizer in 1939, along with a former Democratic Texas congressman. Martin Dees House Un-American Activities Committee Charged with protecting communists after refusing to deport West Coast Labor Union leader Harry Bridges. Former Republican New Jersey Rep. John Parnell Thomas filed a motion to impeach her following the findings, but the committee ultimately concluded The accusation was unjust.
Another New Deal policy maker, Harry Hopkins, was also named by Ishak Akhmerov, a Soviet special agent working in the United States during World War II, who called him “one of the top wartime Soviet intelligence agents in the United States.” He has been accused of being a spy in recent years because he has been described as “the most important person.” “State” during a lecture in Moscow in the 1960s.
document declassified The 1995 “Venona Papers” also show that Akhmerov describes “Agent 19” who relayed information to the Soviet Union about talks between FDR and Winston Churchill, the only person to fit this description. Hopkins will be joined by senior White House officials. identity, According to In the Washington Times.
The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
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