[T1S1] parents, immigrants from Germany; family settled in Richmond Hill, Long Island until 1930s; education at Richmond Hill High School; siblings and their occupations; some family background; religious background; small Jewish community in Richmond Hill; involvement with Young People's Socialist League (YPSL) as a youth; attending the Rand School of Social Science; employment in family's grocery store; parties, dances and lectures with the socialist movement; 1934, secretary of New York Young Peoples Socialist League; election to national secretary of YPSL at convention in Pittsburgh; marriage to Hana Geiger; their children; move to Chicago, then Detroit; move to New Kensington to become Head of Socialist Party during formative days of Auto Workers Union; return to New York; Research director for Aluminum Workers of America, 1941; becoming involved with Jewish community; work with a tenants group who wished to purchase their building in 1948; head of Democratic Campaign to take over New Kensington; move to Pittsburgh; affiliation with Temple Sinai; move to Washington, DC for wife's cancer treatment at George Washington University Hospital; hearing of colleague Phillip Murray's death over radio.
