Joe Dallet

Joseph Anthony Dallet Jr. (February 18, 1907 – October 13, 1937) was an American industrial worker, labor and communist organizer. From a wealthy family, Dallet was involved in the American labor movement early on, taking industrial jobs such as docker or steel mill worker. He joined the Communist Party USA, and ran for local U.S. House Of Representatives seats. In 1937, he volunteered for the Republican army in the Spanish Civil War. Dallet was killed in his first battle, on the Aragon front near Fuentes de Ebro.

Biography Dallet was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Woodmere, Long Island. His parents were Hilda Dallet and Joseph Dallet Sr, a wealthy silk manufacturer. He left college in 1927 without graduating and took a job in insurance with Massachusetts Mutual Life.

Dallet's authoritarian leadership style was unpopular with the men serving beneath him, who formed a grievance committee to try and remove him. An overnight meeting was held on October 12 to consider the complaints against Dallet.

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