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Joseph Zuken

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Although Zuken's membership in the Communist Party was controversial, he was respected by politicians across the political spectrum for both his intelligence and his political commitment. In early 1969, he won the unanimous support of his colleagues on city council for changes to Winnipeg's Tenant
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Act. The reforms included the establishment of a landlord/tenant review board, restrictions on eviction notices, and improvements to the privacy rights of tenants.
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on behalf of the North End ward which had been represented since the 1930s by fellow Communist
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After serving on the school board for twenty years he was elected, in 1961, to Winnipeg's
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in the city, both on-stage as an actor and off-stage, including an attempt to put on
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Though a loyal member of the Communist Party he expressed public criticisms of the
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Labor-Progressive Party candidates in the 1953 Canadian federal election
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Labor-Progressive Party candidates in the 1949 Canadian federal election
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Labor-Progressive Party candidates in the 1945 Canadian federal election
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he fought for public housing, public hospitals and rights for the poor.
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http://www.mhs.mb.ca/info/pubs/timelines/v38n6/index.shtml#zukenplaque
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in the 1970s for its restrictions on Jewish emigration and official
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and was one of the few Communists to win re-election through the
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and the longest serving elected Communist party politician in
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and intervened in struggles for workers rights and in anti-
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in court against state repression and later established a
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Prior to the Second World War Zuken was connected with
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to give poor people access to legal representation.
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Index

Communist
Winnipeg
North America
Canada
Ukraine
Jewish
working class
Yiddish
socialist
Communist Party of Canada
lawyer
fascist
Great Depression
theatre
Eight Men Speak
trade unions
legal clinic
school board
Cold War
kindergartens
city council
Jacob Penner
alderman

Mayor
won 18% of the vote
alderman
Soviet Union
antisemitism
Poland

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