Adolph Lessig

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Adolph Lessig (1871Template:Spaced ndashAugust 12, 1935) was an American silk worker, labor organizer and the business agent of the Industrial Workers of the World.[1] He was one of the leaders of the 1913 Paterson silk strike and was associated with Bill Haywood, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Carlo Tresca.[1]

Life and career

He was born in 1871 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Lessig was secretary of the Industrial Workers of the World branch in Paterson, New Jersey.[2] In 1913, he led workers in the Paterson silk strike.[1] Lessig was later chair of a strikers' committee in 1924.[1]

He died of a heart attack on August 12, 1935, at his stationery store in Paterson, New Jersey.[1] He was married to Elizabeth Lessig.[3]

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