In brief
William Weinstone was a party man in the years when American communism still thought it might become a mass language. A brief turn as executive secretary put him in the minutes; Detroit put him on a factory gate.
He lived long enough to see the movement shrink and the memoirs multiply. The useful fact is the labor years: a New Yorker who treated the auto shop as the real convention.
He was the son of Jewish parents who brought him to the United States to escape that nation's pervasive antisemitism during the late Tsarist period.
Photographs
Hero photograph: Wikimedia Commons
