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
Rose Wortis’s January 1953 Jewish Life obituary identifies the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union dress-department leader as Irving Weissberg in the title and portrait caption, Isadore Weissberg in the opening paragraph, and Isidore Weissberg in its conclusion. It reports his death on November 19, 1952; the portrait caption gives 1897–1952. The same account says that a 1932 felonious-assault prosecution resulted in an indefinite penitentiary term and that he and a fellow worker were released after serving eleven months following an amnesty campaign. This later outcome is not backdated to the separately reported 1931 hung jury. Exact imprisonment endpoints and a computed custody total remain unset. The portrait is reproduced from the explicitly captioned photograph on page 21.
Rose Wortis, “Irving Weissberg: Labor Leader,” Jewish Life, January 1953, pages 20–21.
