Gus Tyler

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. August "Gus" Tyler was an American socialist activist of the 1930s, a labor union official, author, and newspaper columnist. Tyler is best remembered as a leading American labor intellectual of the post-World War II era and as the author of a history of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. August Tyler was born Augustus Tilove to Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn, New York in 1911. He later changed his surname in honor of Wat Tyler, the leader of an English peasants' revolt in 1381. Tyler was the product of a radical upbringing, as he later recalled in a 1988 interview with New York Newsday: As far as my mother was concerned, socialism was what God ordained. You didn't learn it from Marx or anybody; it was just the natural thing. People are people and they shouldn't be rich and they shouldn't be poor. I just thought this was the way you live. You're supposed to be a socialist and ultimately the whole world goes socialist."