In the 1890s, Ella Bloor became involved in the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the women's rights movement. In 1897 she joined the Social Democratic Party, formed that year by Eugene V. Debs and Victor L. Berger. In 1898 she moved to the more radical Socialist Labor Party headed by Daniel DeLeon but in 1902 she returned to Deb's re-named Socialist Party of America. In Connecticut in 1908 she became the first woman to run for state office when she filed for Secretary of State. She ran for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1918. She was among the radical faction of the Socialist Party that was expelled in 1919 and then organized independently as the Communist Labor Party. From 1922 to 1948 she sat on the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Essentially Mint.