Harold Ware

Harold Maskell "Hal" Ware (August 19, 1889 – August 14, 1935) was an American Marxist regarded as one of the Communist Party's top experts on agriculture.

Whittaker Chambers alleged that during the early 1930s he was a member of the so-called "Ware Group," a covert group of operatives within the United States government which aided Soviet intelligence agents.

Harold Ware, best known by his nickname "Hal," was born on August 19, 1889 in Woodstown, New Jersey, the fourth child of Ella Reeve Bloor and her husband, Lucien Bonaparte Ware. Two of Hal's three older siblings died in early childhood.

Hal's mother, Ella Bloor, was converted to the ideas of socialism during 1894 and 1895, when the family lived in Philadelphia. She became a lifelong activist in the labor movement, an early member of the Social Democracy of America, organized by Victor L. Berger and Eugene V. Debs and a founder of the Communist Party of America. Young Hal was thus raised in a politically radical household, a childhood later colloquially known as that of a "Red Diaper Baby."

When he was 15, a case of measles left young Hal with what doctors believed to be an early case of tuberculosis. His divorced mother moved with Hal and two brothers to the country for a year, while the rest of the family lived with his father in Philadelphia and attended school there. While his mother raced off to Wilmington every week to speak and organize literature sales, she being the Delaware state organizer for the Socialist Party, Hal seems to have taken fondly to rural life. Although he would return to school in the big city the following year, his orientation towards the countryside was firmly established.

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