Biography
Edith Berkman was an NTWU organizer choked and beaten in a raid on strike headquarters, held without bail for deportation to fascist Poland in the 1931 Lawrence, Massachusetts textile strike. In the 1931 strike of 23,000 textile workers at Lawrence, Massachusetts, the National Textile Workers' Union leadership was mass-arrested and several foreign-born organizers were held for deportation to break the strike.
