Abraham Beckerman

{{Short description|American socialist politician}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Abraham Beckerman | image = Alderman Beckerman LCCN2014710237 Trim.jpg | caption = Beckerman in 1920 | office1 = Member of the<br/>New York City Board of Aldermen<br />from the 6th district | term_start1 = January 1, 1918 | term_end1 = December 31, 1921 | predecessor1 = | successor1 = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1890|09|27}} | birth_place = London, England, U.K. | death_date = {{death date and age|1964|07|31|1890|09|27}} | death_place = Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. | party = Socialist | other_party = | alma_mater = | occupation = Politician | spouse = {{marriage|Anna Berman|1921}} | children = {{flatlist| * Ruth * Joan }} }} '''Abraham Beckerman''' (September 27, 1890 – July 31, 1964) was an English-born<ref>{{cite web |title=U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 for Abraham Beckerman |url=https://www.ancestryinstitution.com/imageviewer/collections/1002/images/2wwii_2370931-0140?pId=7430702 |website=ancestry.com |publisher=United States Department of War |access-date=3 March 2025 |date=1942}}</ref> American labor leader, politician and convicted criminal. In 1937, he was found guilty of racketeering for using his position as general manager of the Fur Dressers Factor Corporation to aid mobsters Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro and Louis "Lepke" Buchalter in a conspiracy to control the $75 million fur-dressing industry.<ref>{{cite news |title=BECKERMAN DIES; SOCIALIST WAS 74; Labor Official Figured in '37 Fur Industry Conspiracy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/03/archives/beckerman-dies-socialist-was-74-labor-official-figured-in-37-fur-in.html |access-date=3 March 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=3 August 1964 |location=New York}}</ref>

He was previously a Socialist Party politician, representing Manhattan's 6th district on the New York City Board of Aldermen from 1918<ref>{{cite news |title=Tammany retains Aldermanic hold; 7 Socialists win |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/57089767/?terms=beckerman&match=1 |access-date=3 March 2025 |work=Brooklyn Eagle |date=7 November 1917 |location=Brooklyn}}</ref> to 1921.<ref>{{cite news |title=Democrats Gain 15 Seats in Board of Aldermen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/100126140/?terms=beckerman&match=1 |access-date=3 March 2025 |work=New-York Tribune |date=10 November 1921 |location=New York}}</ref> After he left office, he became general manager of the New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.<ref>{{cite news |title=New York Joint Board |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_new-leader_1926-04-03_3_12/page/n6/mode/1up?q=beckerman |access-date=3 March 2025 |work=The New Leader |date=3 April 1926 |location=New York}}</ref> During his tenure, Beckerman fought to rid the unions of Communist influence with what former colleague Baruch Charney Vladeck dubbed "Beckerman's knuckles."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Epstein |first1=Melech |title=The Jew and Communism |date=1959 |publisher=Trade Union Sponsoring Committee |location=New York |page=135 |url=https://archive.org/details/jewcommunismstor0000mele/page/135/mode/1up |access-date=3 March 2025}}</ref>

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== External links == * {{commons-inline}} * [https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=317494 Our Campaigns - Beckerman, Abraham I.] * [https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/fur-dressers-case FBI - Fur Dressers Case]

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