User talk:Morn277

Recent edits to Waiting for Lefty
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Waiting for Lefty, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Materialscientist (talk) 10:40, 23 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi, see updated Waiting for Lefty page. I used the obituary below that Morn277 provided and some secondary sources to build a SOURCES section that can include the "based on" discussion - though Orner says one thing, Odets says another, so I tried phrasing it as disputed. There may also be another source in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1934 but one must pay to access it: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/59983868/ (and other articles from that year).  Hopefully this strengthens the WFL article.  Please note, Morn277, that the inclusion of Orner in the World_Socialist_Party_of_the_United_States article is also uncited and as such does not constitute a reliable source. That mention is liable to be deleted, but I'll add the obit source to it since we have it now. Best, Henry chianski (talk) 19:02, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Waiting for Lefty
Morn277 (talk) 05:48, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Waiting for Lefty
Already in Wikipedia...from Wikipedia itself 

Notable members ·        Taffy Brown – Detroit Labor Journalist for Labor News Agency. ·        Bill Davenport – Founding Director of the United Auto Workers Education Department. ·        Adolph Kohn – Leading party member during the foundation period. ·        J. A. "Jack" McDonald – Former IWW, Industrial Worker Editor, Socialist Party of Canada member and owner of McDonald's Books (founded 1926; 48 Turk St., San Francisco); McDonald (sometimes spelled "MacDonald") published a periodical entitled On the Record. ·        Frank Marquart – Helped found the UAW, Education Director of the Briggs Local 313, Dissident against the Reuthers, author of An Auto Workers' Journal ·        Sam Orner – Former IWW Organizer, organized the 1934 New York Taxi Strike, served as the inspiration for Lefty inWaiting for Lefty. ·        Bill Pritchard – Former SPC member, Dockworker, founding member of the One Big Union (Canada), Defendant in the Winnipeg General Strike Trial, Mayor of Burnaby, BC.[12][13] ·        Issac Rab – Active in Typographers Union as well as in Detroit and Boston socialist politics for 60 years.

NYT Obit: http://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/04/archives/samuel-orner-dies-inspired-lefty-play.html SAMUEL ORNER DIES; INSPIRED ‘LEFTY’ PLAY Samuel Orner, who led the 1934 taxi strike here that was used by Clifford Odets, the playwright, as the setting for his 1933 play, “Waiting for Lefty,” died Sunday in Englewood (N.J.) Hospital. He was 79 years old and lived at 84 Dean Street, Tenafly, N. J.

Mr. Orner was born on the Lower East Side and as a youth became active in the International Workers of the World (the “Wobblies”), an anarchist group. In the Odets play “Lefty,” the strike leader, failed to appear at the union meeting because he had been killed by strike‐breaking hooligans. Mr. Orner's family said this was “poetic license,” adapted from a time during the strike when he was badly beaten.

Since 1934, Mr. Orner had operated stationery stores in New Jersey but continued active in the World Socialist Party of America, writing for its publication, The Western Socialist, and for a kindred small Socialist group in Great Britain.

He leaves his wife, the former Ida Gewirtzman; two sons, Merwin and Alfred, and four grandchildren. I am Sam Orner's grandson (son of Alfred). Morn277 (talk) 05:04, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Waiting for Lefty
I am Sam Orner's grandson. Morn277 (talk) 05:52, 25 January 2017 (UTC)