Meyer Baylin discusses growing up in Russia in a poor Jewish grain merchant's family; the family's emigration to New York, then San Antonio, Texas, and Los Angeles, Calif. He discusses activities of the Communist Party in Los Angeles during the 1920s, organizing for the Party within the Teamsters Union in New York between 1935 and 1943; and comments on various San Francisco leftists, including Tom Mooney and Harry Bridges. He talks about his electrician business in San Francisco.