Elmer Rosenberg (1885 – April 1951) was an American politician and labor leader from New York.
Life
He was born in Újpest, which is now a district of Budapest, Hungary, and attended the public schools there. He emigrated to the United States in 1900, and became a cloth cutter in New York City. He graduated from Rand School of Social Science. He was President of Local 10 of the Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters Union; and President of the Joint Board of the Cloak, Skirt and Reefer Makers' Union. He oversaw multiple strikes by textile workers and often participated in pay and working-condition discussions between garment unions and manufacturers.
He was a Socialist member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 6th D.) in 1918.
In 1920, he left New York City and moved to Lake Huntington, Sullivan County, New York, where he bought a boarding house. He married Rose Braverman.
His son, Robert Rosenberg, (b. 1925) was a history teacher and hotel owner. His daughter Esterita "Cissie" (Rosenberg) Blumberg (1928–2004) published a book of memoirs: Remember the Catskills: Tales of a Recovering Hotelkeeper (1997).
Sources
NEW PROTOCOL ENDS NEEDLE STRIKE FEAR in NYT on July 5, 1915
CLOAKMAKERS ASK 20 PER CENT. RISE in NYT on June 17, 1917
GUIDE FOR VOTERS BY CITIZENS UNION in NYT on October 28, 1917
New York Red Book (1918; pg. 166) NOMINEES ANALYZED BY CITIZENS UNION in NYT on October 27, 1918 ELMER ROSENBERG in NYT on April 12, 1951 (subscription required) Looking Back For a Future In the Catskills in NYT on May 8, 1997 Deaths; BLUMBERG, ESTERITA (CISSIE) in NYT on September 7, 2004
1880s births
1951 deaths
American trade union leaders
Socialist Party of America politicians from New York (state) Members of the New York State Assembly Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States People from Cochecton, New York 20th-century American politicians Activists from New York (state)