Word: weisbord
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Twenty-four long hours, one long day; seven long days, one long week. The 23rd week of the strike in Passaic, N. J., opened with Albert Weisbord, of the Harvard Law School, bespectacled, frail dynamo of the textile workers, making preparations for an all summer battle: "We shall hold on like bulldogs, no matter what punishment they inflict upon us," he said...
Within the last fortnight, the air around Garfield has been surcharged with the noise of bombs. The homes of the strike breakers are the chief objects of attack, although Weisbord denies any connection of his men with this business. Mayor Burke of Garfield intends to take drastic steps: "No self-respecting city can permit any continuance of the violence which has been perpetrated on some of our citizens...
...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...