Word: weisbord
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mother Ella Reeves Bloor, prominent organizer in the Passaic textile strike, in her talk at the Liberal Club yesterday emphasized the peaceful conduct of the strikers, the courageous and intelligent leadership of Albert Weisbord, and the unjust violence of the opposition...
...Weisbord came to Passaic after the workers' first unsuccessful attempt to organize, and succeeded in welding them together", Mother Bloor said in regard to the beginning of the strike...
With the arrest of Alberst Weisbord, a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the present strike leader in Passaic, last Saturday and his impending trial, the prolonged strike has reached a climax of general interest...
...Albert Weisbord, the leader who was arrested in Saturday's demonstration, was graduated from the Harvard Law School two years ago. He came to Cambridge from the City College of New York, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He worked his way through the Law School, and at the same time organized the Young People's Socialist League, of which he became president...
After his graduation Weisbord did ordinary labor for a year to become thoroughly acquainted with the mill hands and their problems. Since then he has been working as an organizer in the textile industry for the National Workers' Party...