Biography
I. Weissberg was organizer of the dress department of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. The November 23 issue reports that his assault prosecution arising from the Needleman and Bremmer strike ended in a hung jury after a week’s trial. It attributes the prosecution to collaboration between the employers and rival union officials. A hung jury is neither an acquittal nor a conviction. The initials, individual arrest and physical custody endpoints are unresolved. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n281-NY-nov-23-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
The May 7, 1931 Daily Worker announced that assault cases against organizers Jack Shneider and I. Weissberg would be called that day in General Sessions, Part 9, in the Needleman and Bremmer strike coverage. It provides no outcome or physical jail duration. The later reported hung jury is not backdated to this prospective notice. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n110-NY-may-07-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
The June 14, 1932 Daily Worker advertises a June 15 Irving Plaza protest against sentencing of the garment-strike defendants printed Weissberg, Miller, Turner and Adlachi. The shared strike-defense cohort supplies the contextual match to the existing records; no new first names or people are invented. The notice gives no individual term, final disposition, prison-entry day or completed service and is not treated as proof that the advertised meeting occurred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n141-jun-14-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
