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Socialist League in 1954. He learned machinist skills at Metal Trades High School at night while studying at City College, worked as a journeyman machinist and tool and die maker for 13 years, and was an activist in the
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found two democratic socialist parties (now defunct) in
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in 1972, and moved in 1973 to Queens
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in Croatia. He was married and had an adult daughter.
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