[5] See Hillquit, 114–16, and Gorenstein, 207 et seq.
[6] Hillquit, 161–62. One more thing: Earlier that January, Hillquit had traveled to Springfield, Massachusetts, to participate in the founding of the American Jewish Congress.
[7] The strike, in fact, threatened starvation for half a million workers and their families. At its height, city prosecutors, apparently pressured by manufacturers, indicted five union members for the 1910 murder of a former strikebreaker. Hillquit defended the men in court and won outright acquittals for all five.