1926 Passaic textile strike
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The 1926 Passaic textile strike was a work stoppage by over 15,000 woolen mill workers in and around Passaic, New Jersey, over wage issues in several factories in the vicinity. Conducted in its initia
Passaic strikers and their children picketing outside the White House in Washington, DC.
Martin Winkler arrested by police for resistance
A delegation from textile mills visiting Washington, D.C. March 17, 1926
Albert Weisbord, the primary organizer of the strike, was removed in the summer of 1926. He wrote a substantial pamphlet and went on a speaking tour detailing his experiences.
Albert Weisbord
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Albert Weisbord was an American political activist and union organizer. He is best remembered, along his wife Vera Buch, as one of the primary union organizers of the seminal 1926 Passaic Textile Stri
1926 Passaic textile strike
…was matched at once by all the other mills in the area, save one. A former Phi Beta Kappa graduate of City College of New York and Harvard Law School, Albert Weisbord, was already active in the Passaic area as an organizer for the Trade Union Educational League (TUEL), the trade union arm of the Workers (Communist…
Weisbord c. 1927
Drawing of Albert Weisbord used in the Communist Press, 1926. Probably drawn by Hugo Gellert.
Leaflet for a speech by Weisbord given in connection with the 10th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
Weisbord c. 1928