The two Rubys

[Jim Hargrove]

From John Armstrong's HarveyandLee.net:

NOTE: there was another Jack Rubenstein whose name was known to a few members of Congress. This Rubenstein (DOB 4/5/1905) was originally from New York, New Jersey, and later the Bronx. He was thin, well over 6 ft tall, and a member of the Young Communist League in the 1920s. Rubenstein broke with the Young Communist League in 1929, distanced himself from communists, joined the Textile Workers of America, was the New York State Director of the Textile Workers Union of America in 1947, and vice-president of the New York AFL-CIO until his retirement in 1973. This man, because of his prior association with the Young Communist League, was mentioned during the Dies Committee hearings in 1938 and 1939 (click here to view letters).

Some researchers have suggested this "Rubenstein" was the man who attended communist party meetings in Muncie, IN in the 1940s. But this prominent and well known labor leader was known to tens of thousands of textile workers, senior labor leaders, and politicians. It is difficult to believe that he would drive 700 miles (to Muncie, IN) to attend meetings of a few dozen local members of the communist party, when he had broken away from the party 15 years earlier. The meetings held in Muncie, IN were attended by Jacob (Jack) Rubenstein of Chicago, who was posing as the Chicago correspondent for the "Daily Worker," but in reality was an informant for the House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC-which began in 1945).

Two "Jack Rubensteins?" Yes, and they were very different people.

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