[Membroj] Esperantist union leader vs the student movement?

[Ralph Dumain]

I'm wondering who the Esperantist mentioned in this article could be. 
The only person I can think of is Mark Starr, but I don't know enough 
of his history in the USA to know what political role he played in 
the turmoil of the '60s. When I last saw him in 1977, he seemed to be 
out of touch, but in 1960?

SOURCE: Rexroth, Kenneth ."The Students Take Over," The Nation, 2 
July 1960. Reprinted in Assays (1961) and World Outside the Window: 
Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth (1987).
Not only did the New Revolt of Youth become the hottest domestic copy 
in years, but it reached the ears of all the retired and semiretired 
and comfortably fixed pie-card artists of every lost and every 
long-since-won cause of the labor and radical movements. Everybody 
shouted, "Myself when young!" and pitched in with application blanks. 
The AFL-CIO sent out a well-known leader of the Esperanto movement 
who reported that the kids were muddled and confused and little 
interested in the trade-union movement which they, mistakenly in his 
opinion, thought of as morally compromised.
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/newrevolt.htm

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