Word: weisbord
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both groups, striker and citizen, recognize the danger which hangs over the city. Last week, it loomed menacingly. To New Bedford had come a strike leader of a new type, with different and dangerous ideas. To the history of textile troubles in Passaic, N. J., Albert Weisbord* has contributed many a stormy chapter. And when he advanced on New Bedford to form the Textile Mills Committee, the heads of the old unions were disturbed. Weisbord's ideas were of violence and force, parades and riots. Public sympathy, most surprisingly with the strikers, might well be destroyed by violent methods...
...same day, radicals had defied the order against mass picketing, dared police to make arrests. Chief of Police McLeod took the dare, commandeered patrol wagons, moving carts, one ludicrous piano van. He packed 256 picketeers off to headquarters. Citizens noted that 237 of the 256 belonged to the Weisbord element...
...Bedford sympathy stood the shock of Weisbord violence, still supports the orderly unions. Almost overshadowing the contest between owners and operatives is the war upon the radicals. And it is on the issue of this war that the immediate future of New Bedford depends...
International President Thomas F. McMahon of the United Textile Workers, who took charge of the strike last summer, after "Communist" Leader Albert Weisbord had withdrawn (TIME, Aug. 23), had dealt conciliatingly with Vice President Charles F. Johnson of the Botany Mills. They agreed that the workers might organize, provided they entertained no Communistic taint; that collective bargaining would be recognized; that no outside help would be hired until all strikers were placed; that the open shop system would prevail; that future disputes would be put to arbitration. Their principals-employers and workers approved their agreement last week; and more than...
...Open terrorist methods have been used by the mill-owners in Passaic. New Jersey, in an attempt to crush the textile strikers," stated Albort Weisbord, noted Communist and labor agitator yesterday in the course of his speech at the Liberal Club...