He studied political science at the University of California at Los Angeles but had to drop out to help support his family and completed his degree forty years later.He also mentioned alleged communists known to him, including Harry Bridges (strike organizer), Schneiderman (California CP), J. Robert Oppenheimer (atomic scientist), and Haakon Chevalier (translator).In 1939, the US government sought to revoke his citizenship shortly after Joseph Stalin reversed Soviet (Comintern) foreign policy by signing the Hitler-Stalin Pact.Schneiderman was the American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born's second major victory, following work for Harry Bridges, leader of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) during the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike.The defendants were: Loretta Starvus Stack, Al Richmond, Dorothy Healey, Rose Chernin Kunitz, Albert J. Lima, Philip Marshall Connelly, Ernest Otto Fox, Carl Rude Lambert, Henry Steinberg, Oleta O'Connor Yates, and Mary Bernadette Doyle.[2] At the Tamiment Library, Schneiderman appears in collections including those of Carol Weiss King,[14] Gil Green,[17] Samuel Adams Darcy,[18] and Max Schachtman.
Schneiderman lost an election to 22nd Governor of Minnesota
Floyd B. Olson
(1930)
Schneiderman received gratis legal help from Republican presidential candidate
Wendell Willkie
(undated)
Schneiderman's circle included fellow Communist
Samuel Adams Darcy
(1941) (Source:
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2001-074.120
)
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