[2 SOCIALIST ACTION FEBRUARY 1988 Alice Snipper died…]
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2 SOCIALIST ACTION FEBRUARY 1988 Alice Snipper died at her home in Oakland, Calif., on Dec. 31. She was 73 years old. She lived only six months after a diagnosis of terminal cancer.
Alice was one of that generation of American Trotskyists that came out of the great political and labor struggles of the 1930s and 1940s. In many ways her life, since joining the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1939, was virtually a history of the movement-especially that part played by the loyal and hard-working rank and file.
In August 1986, Alice was one of the 13 Socialist Action members honored at Socialist Action's celebration of "Fifty Years of Revolutionary Continuity." The 13 submitted "biographical notes" for the program.
Alice wrote that she joined the SWP because of the Moscow Trials and "because the Socialist Workers Party was a fighting party."
She wrote that during World War II she and her companion, Henry, "were asked to move to San Pedro to do the work the famous worker-fighter Jimmy Higgins did: leaflets, mailings, selling the press, contact Alice Snipper Henry Snipper/Socialist Action work." [Higgins was a character in a novel by Upton Sinclair] "During our seven years in San Pedro, 1 worked in the shipyards, at Firestone Rubber, and about three years as a cannery worker. ,19 Àfter returning to Los Angeles, Alice did volunteer work in the SWP office. "I ran off leaflets on an old A.B. Dick hand-run