Vol.62/No.26 July 6, 1998
Letters
Ray Plemmons, a longtime socialist
Raymond Plemmons, a former member of the Socialist
Workers Party, died June 13 in Sacramento, California, of
cancer. Ray was a longtime participant of the maritime union
fraction in New York during the late 1940s and '50s. Because
of his activities in the fraction and his ideas, he became a
victim of the infamous witch hunt that also claimed a lot of
victims in the maritime and elsewhere. In the early '60s Ray
moved to California where he worked as a skilled steam
fitter until he retired. Ray was born in Idaho in June 1924.
He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Hazel, and his
nephew Raymond Garza.
Mike Garza
Colusa, California
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