Word: weisbord
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particularly struck by the fact that Weisbord was arrested for encouraging hostility to the government," Mr. H. W. S. Dana '03 said yesterday in commenting on the most recent disturbances in the Passaic textile strike. "It seems rather paradoxical that a man who undoubtedly represents the majority of the people should be charged with hostility to the government which in this country is theoretically representative of the majority...
Responsibility for the immediate disturbances is no doubt mutual. The steel of official determination meets the flint of strike lender Weisbord's ultimatums and the fighting spark incites both pickets and policemen. Ideas kindle into action as quickly as a thrown stone can smash a window...
...Weisbord's recent threat to call a strike of school children unless the officers abandon Cossack methods is an example of the mental position which have led to stern riots and sterner repressions. For the moment one wonder at this unreasonable boycott which would harm the laborer more than the capitalist. The heat of strife has blinded the leader, who is himself a product of higher education, in the permanent avenue of escape for his followers offered by intelligent preparation for solving problems...
...strike is led by Albert Weisbord, Phi Beta Kappa, and a graduate of the Harvard Law School. He is exceedingly able both as leader and organizer. He insists on discipline and peaceful tactics most emphatically, despite all rumors of violence. Each picket line is under the leadership of appointed captains who carry out these principles. To insure that he cannot be accused of terrorizing men into leaving work. Weisbord only conducts mass picketing when no one is entering or leaving the mills. Even picket lines of several thousands are handled without difficulty for the strikers simply march slowly...
...work in the Botany Worsted Mills of Passaic, N. J. Some workers got $9 a week. More experienced ones got $15. The strike had been coming for a long time, and when it came they were quite ready to listen to the taut harangs of Strike Leader Albert Weisbord (a graduate of the Harvard Law School) and to the words of Elisabeth Gurley Flynn, a wild Irishwoman who could fire a meeting like a cigaret in shavings. They had been listening to her that afternoon. She had sent them out to march past the mill...