Rust, William
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Name (Latin)
Rust, William
Other forms of name
Rust, Bill
Rust, W. C. (William C.)
Rust, W. (William)
Date of birth
1903-04-24
Date of death
1949-02-03
Associated country
Great Britain
Occupation
Journalists
Newspaper editors
Political activists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- DNB, 27 Nov. 2008(Rust, William Charles (1903--1949), political activist and journalist, was born on 24 April 1903; worked as an office boy at Hulton's press agency, from where he was sacked for exposing the trade union leader J. T. Brownlie; died 3 Feb. 1949)
- Finland--press lies, 1940:t.p. (W. Rust)
- His Bill Rust's message to you, 1937?
- LC database, 9 June 1998(MLC hdg.: Rust, William)
- NUC pre-56(Rust, William, 1903-1949)
- Rust, William. Spain fights for victory, 1938:t.p. (William Rust)
- The case against J.T. Brownlie, [1920?]:t.p. (W. C. Rust) p.1 (William Rust)
- Wikipedia, Nov. 30, 2017(William Rust (journalist); British newspaper editor and communist activist; born in Camberwell; worked at Hulton's Press Agency before moving to the Workers Dreadnought communist newspaper, as a representative of the Young Communist League; first editor of the party's newspaper, the Daily Worker, for two years, then CPGB's representative in Moscow; after a period as a party organiser in Lancashire, he became the Daily Worker's correspondent with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War; returned as editor of the Daily Worker in 1939, where he remained until his death from a heart attack in 1949, aged 45)