Biography
Albert Weisbord was arrested and jailed repeatedly through the strike year, held at one point under $30,000 bail and facing multiple indictments (including one for 'predicting the overthrow of the government' in a speech). The prosecutions were used as a club against the strike and were dropped as it wound down. He later founded the Communist League of Struggle.
Albert Weisbord was the young Harvard-trained organizer who led the great 1926 Passaic, New Jersey textile strike of 15,000 mill workers — the first mass strike led by American communists.
Daily Worker, February 18, 1927, page 5: A Pittsburgh notice announces his coming Sunday address on results of the Passaic strike. This documents contemporary strike education and prospective travel without asserting a new arrest. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1927/1927-nat/v04-n031-NAT-feb-18-1927-DW-Q.pdf
1920s custody review: Two April1926 detention episodes are distinguished. An April10 Associated Press dispatch reports the arrest and remand without bail. The April21 Daily Worker (April19 dispatch) and Textile Strike Bulletin describe a Saturday release and immediate rearrest, followed by Sunday release: April17 and18. The original year-only case now describes April10-17 detention; the April17-18 episode is separate. These were pretrial jailings, not a prison sentence.
Sources: Daily Iowan, April11,1926, page1; Daily Worker, April21,1926, page1; Textile Strike Bulletin, April21,1926.
Daily Worker, February 18, 1927; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
The Passaic strike report individually names Weisbord, Rubenstein and Miller as defendants facing prosecution; Rubenstein is specifically said to have been hospitalized after police beatings. The caption identifies Weisbord behind bars and separately shows Nina Shafransky being arrested. Anticipated prison terms are not completed service, and the article gives no individual release or final duration.
The dictionary records study at City College of New York and a Harvard law degree, identifies him as a radical labor organizer and Marxist historian associated with the Passaic textile strike, and places his death in Chicago in April 1977. It notes successive associations with the Socialist Party, Communist Party and a Trotskyist group. Its approximate 1901 birth year is not used to replace the precise birth date already recorded.
Jacob Rader Marcus, editor, and Judith M. Daniels, associate editor, The Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography, printed page 679 (PDF page 672).
