Passionate Commitments:
The Lives of Anna Rochester
and Grace Hutchins
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Acronyms Used in the Book

ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union

ACPFB: American Committee for Protection of the Foreign Born

AFL: American Federation of Labor

CAIL: Church Association for the Assistance of Industrial Labor

CAW: Congress of American Women

CCCL: Citizens' Committee for Constitutional Liberty

CIO: Committee for Industrial Organization. Later, Congress of Industrial Organizations

CLID: Church League for Industrial Democracy

CPA: Communist Political Association

CPUSA: Communist Party USA

CRC: Civil Rights Congress

DAR: Daughters of the American Revolution

ECCI: Executive Committee of the Communist International

ECFP: Emergency Committee for a Free Press

ECLC: Emergency Civil Liberties Committee

ELSA: Episcopal League for Social Action

FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation

FOR: Fellowship of Reconciliation

FSA: Farm Security Administration

FSU: Friends of the Soviet Union

HUAC: House Un-American Activities Committee

ILD: International Labor Defense

INS: Immigration and Naturalization Service

IRS: Internal Revenue Service

IURW: International Union of Revolutionary Writers

IWO: International Workers Order

IWW: Industrial Workers of the World (aka “Wobblies”)

JAFRC: Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee

KPD: German Communist Party, Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands

LID: League for Industrial Democracy

LRA: Labor Research Association

NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

NAM: National Association of Manufacturers

NCLC: National Child Labor Committee

NCUSI: National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance

NRA: National Recovery Administration

NTWU: National Textile Workers Union

NWP: National Woman’s Party

NYTSD: New York Training School for Deaconesses

RILU: Red International of Labor Unions

SA: Sturmabteilung

SAC: special agent in charge

SCHC: Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross

SVM: Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions

TUEL: Trade Union Educational League

TUUL: Trade Union Unity League

USSR: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

WIDF: Women's International Democratic Federation

WTUL: Women's Trade Union League

YWCA: Young Women's Christian Association

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