Max Pine, Noted Jewish Labor Leader, Dies at 62

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Max Pine, Jewish labor leader, relief worker and one of the founders of the “Jewish Daily Forward,” of New York, died yesterday at his home at 22 Fairmount Avenue. He was sixty-two years old. Three sons and two daughters survive.

Mr. Pine was prominent in Jewish relief work during and after the World War, when he went to Russia with Judge Harry M. Fisher, of Chicago, as a member of the Joint Distribution Committee.

He was a native of Russia and came to this country as a young man. He worked in the needle industry and left it shortly to devote himself to the cause of labor as secretary of the United Hebrew Trades in New York, Jewish labor group affiliated with the A. F. of L. He was a candidate several times on the Socialist ticket for Assemblyman and Alderman from the East Side. He was an organizer of the People’s Relief Committee, one of the three components of the Joint Distribution Committee.

The late Mr. Pine was one of the Jewish labor leaders in the United States who took a keen interest in the Palestine movement, having been the chairman of the National Labor Committee of the Organized Jewish Workers in Palestine, among Jewish workers in the United States.

Statements mourning the death of the late labor leader were issued by Joseph C. Hyman, secretary of the Joint Distribution Committee, by the “Jewish Daily Forward”, Joseph Barondess, the National Labor Committee for Palestine and by the Palestine labor delegation now in the United States. Dr. Chaim Arlasoroff, Dov Hos and Israel Mereminski.

The funeral was held yesterday. Interment was at Lebanon Cemetery, in the plot of the Workmen’s Circle.