William F. Dunne

William Francis "Bill" Dunne (1887–1953) was an American Marxist political activist and trade unionist. He is best remembered as the editor of the radical Butte Bulletin around the turn of the 1920s and as an editor of the daily newspaper of the Communist Party USA from the middle-1920s through the 1930s. Dunne was founding member of the Communist Labor Party of America, but was removed from the national leadership of the party in 1934 and expelled in 1946 on charges of factionalism.

William F. Dunne, known to his friends as "Bill," was born October 15, 1887, in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of an Irish immigrant father and a French-Canadian mother. His father was a railroad worker.

Dunne grew up in Minnesota and attended the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, a private, Roman Catholic institution. Dunne was forced to leave school in 1907 due to a financial panic, however. Dunne went to work on the Northern Pacific Railroad as an electrician, making a home in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

During World War I, Dunne returned to the United States from Canada, settling in Butte, Montana.

Dunne later joined the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.

Dunne was married to a woman named Marguerite. The couple had one son, killed by an automobile in 1925.

Bill Dunne joined the Socialist Party of America in 1910.

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