[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.
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.131_t1s1
Relation
ais196440.131
"Fischer, Ben - 1977" Metadata
Metadata Details
Title
Fischer, Ben - 1977
Creator
National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Pittsburgh Section
Description
Fischer, Ben, Head of the Socialist Party during the early years of the Auto Workers Union and executive director for the Housing Committee of the CIO; year of birth, 1913.
Contributor
Fischer, Ben (interviewee), Berkman;Kruman, Estelle (interviewer), University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1977
Type
oral histories (literary genre), Sound
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.131
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