Biography
Joseph Rappaport was an organizer for the Joint Council of Knitgoods Workers during the1936 textile-trimmers’ strike. The Daily Worker of November11 reports that he was arrested the previous day on an assault charge after police broke a picket line at LouisHornickCompany,22West21stStreet. The union maintained that he had been across the street when the fighting occurred. He was held on $200 bail. The same report describes an earlier arrest with three other union leaders on kidnapping and coercion accusations. Neither prosecution’s final disposition or physical release day is established.
Daily Worker, August 26, 1936, page 4: The knitgoods report calls him J. Rappaport, chairman of the picket committee, and says he was arrested the previous morning, August 25, outside the Miami shop at 6 West Eighteenth Street, released and back on the picket line that afternoon. The same trade and organizing role support identification with Joseph Rappaport. This predates the separately recorded November textile-trimmers prosecution. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n205-NY-aug-26-1936-DW-Q.pdf
