Biography
Jack Schneider was a leader of the International Fur and Leather Workers Union who was targeted during a federal deportation drive against labor organizers. He was detained in civil immigration proceedings, including after his bail was revoked on October 25, 1950. He was released on administrative bail and was arrested again on October 24, 1952, then held without bail. In December 1952, a federal judge ruled that the decision to rearrest and hold him without bail was an abuse of discretion.
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Jack Schneider was a leader of the International Fur and Leather Workers Union who was targeted during a federal deportation drive against labor organizers. The reviewed record identifies a civil immigration proceeding but does not document an arrest, detention, criminal conviction, or prison term.
Daily Worker, July 10, 1934: Pages 1–2 identify him as an organizer of the Fur Workers Industrial Union and include his beating alongside Patsy Augustine’s in a fifteen-organization delegation’s complaint to Mayor La Guardia. The complaint names detectives Waterson and O’Connell and demands their arrest. It is supporting contemporary advocacy about his already recorded 1934 police detention, not a new custody event. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n164-jul-10-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
The May 7, 1931 Daily Worker, printing Jack Shneider, names the Industrial Union organizer with I. Weissberg in assault proceedings scheduled that day in General Sessions, Part 9. This adds an early labor-defense proceeding rather than an assumed jail interval or a result of the hearing. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n110-NY-may-07-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
The April 20, 1932 Daily Worker reports Schneider released on $25,000 bail in deportation proceedings and a large Irving Plaza defense meeting the preceding Monday, April 18. It links the campaign to his Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union organizing and names the ILD’s participation. This documents an earlier immigration episode, without assigning a gate-release day or treating threatened deportation as completed. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n094-NY-apr-20-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
The June 14, 1932 Irving Plaza notice calls for protest against Schneider’s proposed deportation alongside the garment-strike sentencing campaign. This adds defense context to the already documented immigration case; proposed removal does not prove a new arrest or accomplished deportation. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n141-jun-14-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
The issue names him or her in the campaign against deportation warrants targeting labor organizers. It adds ongoing immigration-defense context to the existing proceedings, without proving a new arrest, completed removal or precise physical release. Daily Worker, June 16, 1934, page 5. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n144-jun-16-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5
Bond was reduced from $2,500 to $500 in the deportation proceedings. This adds a July 1934 procedural report, without treating bond reduction as an exact physical release or creating a duplicate immigration arrest. Daily Worker, July 3, 1934, page 6. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n158-jul-03-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=6
Labor Defender, August 1933, PDF page 26: Hy Kravif’s National Recovery Act article reports that fur-union leaders Irving Potash and Jack Schneider, with six unnamed leaders, had recently been arrested and were now out on bail set collectively at over $22,000. The union affiliation bridges the existing identity. This supplies actual arrest and accomplished bail release in the 1933 labor campaign, without exact dates, individual bail allocation, statutory count or complete custody duration. The article places this arrest and bail in the labor campaign surrounding the 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1933/v09n08-aug-1933-lab-def.pdf#page=26
Labor Defender, August 1932, printed pages 145 and 149 (PDF pages 6 and 10): Peter Chaunt's Protect the Foreign Born and Robert Dunn's Dies Deportation Drive describe the campaign against labor organizers. Chaunt identifies the New York needle-trades strike leader as ordered deported, without stating a new arrest or completed removal. Their accounts of the proposed Dies bill and its supporters are contemporary advocacy; proposed legislation and feared foreign penalties are not individual sentences served. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1932/v08n08-aug-1932-LD.pdf
Page 6's La Guardia Terror editorial reports Schneider seized in the fur market Tuesday, taken to Coney Island police station, beaten unconscious and released for lack of evidence. This corroborates the existing early-July 1934 police episode; it is distinct from immigration proceedings. The report does not establish another detention or a completed prison term. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n161-jul-06-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
The November 9 report names the seven fur-strike defendants in the Mineola prosecution whose 1927 convictions and terms of two and a half to five years were under appeal. It describes efforts to secure a new trial; neither a promised retrial nor a printed term is proof of release or completed service. Daily Worker, November 9, 1929, original PDF page 1. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n211-NY-nov-09-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
The April 18, 1932 Daily Worker, Section 1, page 2, reports that Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union organizer Jack Schneider was being held at Ellis Island in the deportation campaign. This establishes the location of his historical 1932 immigration detention; the later April 20 account establishes that he was out on $25,000 bail by that report, without fixing the exact discharge day or total duration. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n092-NY-sect-one-apr-18-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
1934 labor-organizing detention
The July 4, 1934 Daily Worker, page 2, reported that Fur Workers Industrial Union organizer Jack Schneider had been taken from the fur market to the Ninth Street Coney Island station by detectives Watterson and Donnell the previous day. Schneider alleged beatings and denial of medical care, and said he was released in a weakened condition to a Coney Island hospital. This is a separate 1934 police detention, not the later immigration imprisonment.
The fur-strike report identifies Schneider as a Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union organizer and names him among workers facing what the newspaper calls further felonious-assault frame-ups. A co-defendant identified only as Adler was out on high bail. This is a 1930 prosecution reference separate from Schneider’s later 1934 police detention and immigration cases; it does not establish a new individual admission or release day for Schneider.
Daily Worker, July 10, 1934; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
Labor Defender, August 1932; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
Daily Worker, July 6, 1934; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
