Word: weisbord
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Weisbord Has Offered To Quit...
...Neither is it a Communist uprising, as some have tried to make it appear. Weisbord is, as a matter of fact, a member of the Communist party, but all shades of advanced, or, if you will, radical opinion are represented in the strike. Socialists of the old line, of whom the Communists are generally distrustful, have spoken from the same platform with Weisbord. All groups are working together, and the system and smoothness with which things are being done at Passaic is nothing short of marvelous...
...history of the country. At the beginning, the old time Unions kept off, largely because of the fear of Communism, but lately they have become more favorable. Of course, the most important reason for this better feeling is the example and attitude of the strikers themselves. Beside this, Weisbord, of whom the Unions were most suspicious, has said that he will retire from the leadership if his personality is objectionable to them...
...committee called on the mill owners to send representatives, and through Albert Weisbord, the young Harvard law school graduate who is leading the strike, invited a committee of the workers to appear. When the meeting came, Mr. Weisbord turned up at the head of the workers' delegation. The Governor frowned on Mr. Weisbord. He was not a worker, and the committee had specified workers. The Governor declared that Mr. Weisbord had been accused of Communism and would have nothing to do with the strikeleader. So the negotiations were broken off before they began. The strikers then held a mass meeting...
...Albert Weisbord, jailed on four counts, three of them headed "Hostility to Government" and the fourth "Inciting to Riot," was released on $25,000 bail by the Paterson police, rearrested on the same charges by the Garfield deputies. He could not get another $25,000; so he was taken to a cell? a thin, frail young man but recently graduated from the Harvard Law School. Bainbridge Colby, onetime Secretary of State, spoke vainly on behalf of him and U.S. justice. Later Prosecutor A.C. Hart was persuaded to reduce his bail to $5,000, which was found for him. As Weisbord...