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...Arrow Press was founded 22 years ago by James Barondess, then a student in the house. At that time presses printing from handset type were being cast off by newspapers, and type foundries were closing. Barondess went around the country buying up type and collecting the materials needed to start a press. Since then, it has been running quietly--almost secretly--in this basement under the care of one of the Adams House tutors...
...Joseph Barondess, one of the Founding Fathers (in 1900) of the I.L.G.W.U. A Russian-born Jew, the son of a family of rabbis, Barondess endeared himself to needle trades proletarians by his "golden voice," "hypnotic powers over an audience," his habit of "quoting the Bible in the manner of a cultivated freethinker." He spent "the last decade of his life as an insurance agent, selling policies to the workers in the needle trades...
Died. Joseph Barondess, 60, famed Jewish philanthropist, pioneer fighter against "sweatshops," organizer of the potent Cloak Makers' Union, leader in the movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine; following an operation for goiter; in Manhattan...
...Manhattan, the biennial Ameriman -Jewish Congress finished three days' business and adjourned. Officers reelected: Nathan Straus, Honorary President; Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, President; Bernard G. Richards, Executive Secretary. Vice Presidents: Samuel Untermyer, Aaron J. Levy, Joseph Barondess...
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