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Abraham "Abe" Lazarus (1911〔1911 UK census〕–1967) was a British Communist activist. Lazarus contracted rheumatic fever during his childhood and this affected his education, because of his condition he was taught at home by his mother. His health recovered in 1928 so he got a job working as a professional driver and a mechanic, later on in 1930 he joined the Hammersmith branch of the Communist Party of Great Britain and became involved in the National Unemployed Workers' Movement. In 1933 he led a strike at the Firestone tyre factory and this earned him the nickname 'Bill Firestone'.〔 〕 After the strike he became the South Midlands organiser for the Communist Party. == Personal life == Lazarus was Jewish by background. He married Mabel Browning in 1937 and together they had one daughter. Mabel worked as a scientific assistant. Lazarus often took his family on holiday to France, but this ended in 1951 when he was deported and forbidden to return. Earlier in February 1951 he had travelled to Czechoslovakia as a guest of the miners' union. In 1953 he attended the 4th World Festival of Youth and Students in Bucharest as a reporter for ''World News and Views''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abraham Lazarus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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