Biography
Samuel H. Kashinowitz was a Los Angeles Communist who, together with Ben Dobbs and Henry Steinberg, was sentenced in 1949 to one year in jail for contempt after refusing to answer the questions of a federal grand jury investigating Communism in Los Angeles.
From a second record of the same person, merged here so nothing is lost:
Helen Gershonowitz, the sole support of three children and a husband disabled in the mills, was one of five National Textile Workers' Union members charged with first-degree murder in the Paterson, New Jersey silk strike of 1931. During the 1931 silk strike in Paterson, New Jersey, five members of the National Textile Workers' Union were charged with first-degree murder after the struck mill-owner Max Urban died following a February 1931 fight outside his shop. Held without bail and facing the electric chair, they were, the ILD argued, framed to break the strike — several had provable alibis.
Helen Gershonowitz, whose story is preserved in the merged passage above, now has a record of her own in this archive.
