As John Gates pointed out: "There were eleven defendants, the twelfth, Foster, having been severed from the case because of his serious, chronic heart ailment." After a nine month trial the leaders of the American Communist Party were found guilty of violating the Alien Registration Act and sentenced to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. This law, passed by Congress in 1940, made it illegal for anyone in the United States "to advocate, abet, or teach the desirability of overthrowing the government". Winston, and Gil Green were arrested and charged under the Alien Registration Act. Thompson, Gus Hall, Benjamin Davis, Henry M. On the morning of 20th July, 1948, Eugene Dennis, the general secretary and eleven other party leaders, including John Gates, William Z. This included Freedom Road (1944), a novel that dealt with the Reconstruction era The American (1946) and a fictionalized biography of the radical Illinois governor, John Peter Altgeld. As he later recalled: "In the party I found ambition, narrowness and hatred I also found love and dedication and high courage and integrity - and some of the noblest human beings I have ever known." His Marxist views were reflected in the novels that he wrote during this period. In 1943 Fast joined the American Communist Party. This included a series of three books on the American Revolutionary War period: Conceived in Liberty (1939), The Unvanquished (1942), and Citizen Tom Paine (1943).
Fast held strong left-wing views and a large number of his novels dealt with political themes. He dropped out of high school and at the age of 18 published his first novel Two Villages. London anticipated fascism as no other writer of the time did." "The Iron Heel was my first real contact with socialism the book. Fast became a socialist after reading The Iron Heel, a novel written by Jack London. Howard Fast, the son of a factory worker, was born in New York City on 11th November, 1914.
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