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| Affiliation | Socialist Labor |
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| Name | Nathan Karp |
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, New York , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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April 25, 1915
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| Died | April 22, 2000
(84 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | E Pluribus Unum
Apr 17, 2021 10:30am |
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| Info | Nathan Karp, a former national secretary ofthe Socialist Labor Party whose frequent contributions to these columns made his name familiar
to every regular reader of The People, died on April 22. In a general letter to the membership of the SLP on April 25, the national secretary wrote:“It is with an aching heart and a shaking handthat I write to inform you that Comrade Nathan Karp has died. The end came on Saturday, April 22, three days short of his 85th birthday. The im
mediate cause of death was a massive heart attack.“If there are words to express the depth of mysorrow and the sense of loss that I am feeling at
this moment they completely elude me.
I have searched for them for hours and have concluded that it is useless to go on trying. Every SLP man and woman who knew Comrade Karp will appreciate this feeling—this utter incapacity to give expression to emotions so deeply embedded in my being that they reduce all words to hollow and meaningless echoes.” Nat Karp was born in Brooklyn, N.Y.,on April 25, 1915. His mother, Sara, was a worker at the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist factory in 1911, but fortuitously escaped the disastrous fire that took the lives
of more than 200 young women that year.
She and her husband, Daniel, were both
members of the SLP. Nat Karp was a clothing cutter by tradeand for many years a member of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union.
He joined the SLP in 1935, and within a few years was elected to the Subcommittee of the party’s National Executive Committee. He was the SLP’s candidate for United States senator from New York in 1952, for governor of New York in 1953 and for mayor of New York City in 1954. In 1963, he appeared before a Senate subcommittee to defend the “equal time” provision of the Federal Communications Act. His articles in defense of the provision
were printed by TV Guide and the Christ
ian Science Monitor. The membership of the SLP elected Karp as national secretary in 1969 to fill out the
unexpired term of his predecessor. He was elected to a full term of four years in 1972 and to a second term in 1976. In 1980, he was elected financial secretary. He was the author of several SLP publi-cations, including Unionism: Fraudulent or
Genuine and Crises in America: a Revolution Overdue, The SLP and the Unions and Early Efforts at Socialist Unity. After retiring from SLP office in 1983, he remained with the headquarters staff and was a frequent contributor of articles to The People. Karp is survived by his wife and comrade of 63 years, Anne Karp, their daughter Diane, two sons, Alan and Stanley, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.The SLP will hold a memorial meeting to celebrate the life and achievements of Nathan Karp in the A.J. Toppers Room on the 21st floor of the Oakland Marriott City Center Hotel starting at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 4. Readers of The People and all friends and supporters of the SLP are cordially invited to attend. Readers who cannot attend the meeting may wish to contribute to the Nathan Karp
Memorial Fund by using the coupon on
page 6. The People will pay its final tribute toComrade Karp in our July issue.
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