Word: weisbord
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...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...