Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Burdett nọgidere n'ọrụ mbụ ya, na "Brooklyn Daily Eagle", ruo afọ ise. N'oge ya na "Eagle" Burdett rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye na-akọ akụkọ ihe nkiri, ihe nkiri na akwụkwọ. Burdett buru ụzọ sonye na Kọmunist Party na 1937 mgbe ọ na-arụ ọrụ na "Eagle", site na otu ìgwè nọ ebe ahụ nke jikọtara ya na American Newspaper Guild (ANG). Nathan Einhorn bịakwutere ya banyere ịledo. Einhorn, onye nta akụkọ na odeakwụkwọ ukwu nke akwụkwọ akụkọ New York ANG, chọrọ ka Burdett zute Joseph North, onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke "New Masses", akwụkwọ akụkọ Kọmunist Party nke USA. N'ọgbakọ ahụ, North tụrụ aro ọrụ nledo ma kọwaara ya otu nwoke a na-akpọghị aha ya. Ná nzukọ ọzọ e nwere na Union Square nke New York, Burdett nụrụ na e zigara ya Finland. Finland lụrụ agha
N'afọ 1939, ndị Soviet wakporo mba ahụ. Burdett mechara mata onye ya na ya na-emekọrịta ihe na Union Square na foto dị ka onye na-ejikọ CPUSA na KGB, Jacob Golos.