Murray Gross
Murray Gross (died 1981) was a US labour organiser.[1]
Gross entered the garment industry as a capmaker in 1925. A former student at the Brookwood Labor College, Gross was elected to the executive board of the Dress Joint Board in 1932. He was a longstanding manager of Local 6.[1]
According to Robert Alexander, Gross was one of a number of younger socialist activists who supported the election of Charles Zimmerman to the board of Local 22 of the ILGWU.[2]
In 1941, he helped form the Union for Democratic Action (later Americans for Democratic Action). After serving in the Army from 1943 to 1945, Gross served as assistant general manager of the Dress Joint Board. In 1961, he was appointed National Chairman of the American Veterans Committee, and in 1962, he was named to Commission of Human Rights for the City of New York.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Guide to the ILGWU. Maurice Gross Memorabilia, Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library, accessed 2 October 2013.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.46.
