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Bill Bailey (1911–1995) was an Irish-American labour activist, who spent some time fighting for the Republican forces in the International Brigades during the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War.〔Peter N Carroll ''The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War'', pages 180-183 and ''passim'', Stanford University Press (1994) ISBN 0-8047-2277-3〕 As a merchant seaman, Bailey stole the swastika that flew from the bow of the German ship ''Bremen'' docked in Manhattan in 1935. The Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels issued an angry statement, so New York's mayor, La Guardia, sent ten detectives to the German consulate. These were all Jewish detectives - with names the like of Goldfarb and Ginsburg. Goebbels thought this was the biggest insult. He said, "We don't want these inferior bastards to guard any of our people." Bailey, who was a Communist Party member from the working-class neighborhoods of Hoboken and Hell's Kitchen, went on to fight fascism during the Spanish Civil War. He joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American contingent of the International Brigades.〔("Alternative America" ) (Ed Rampell interview of Studs Terkel), ''Socialist Review'', April 2006〕 During World War Two, he served as a business agent for the Marine Firemen, Oilers and Watertenders Union (MFOW), before he himself joined the war effort during the invasion of the Philippines. He was expelled from the MFOW during the McCarthy era, and briefly edited ''The Black Gang News'' before moving to longshore work. His autobiography, ''The Kid from Hoboken'', was written with Lynn Damme and published in San Francisco by Circus Lithographic Prepress, 1993. It covers his childhood and the trip to Spain.〔(''The Kid from Hoboken'' )〕 He later lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bill Bailey was featured in the film documentaries ''Seeing Red'' (1983) and ''The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War'' (1984). On February 27, 1995, he died of a long-lasting pulmonary condition caused by asbestos exposure during his work as a seaman.〔 ==References== 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「Bill Bailey (Spanish Civil War veteran)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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