Today in Labor History October18, 1927: The murder trial began for Sholom Schwartzbard, accused of killing Ukrainian nationalist Symon Petliura because he slaughtered 15 members of Schwartzbard’s family in Pogroms. Schwartzbard was a Russian-born French Yiddish poet and an anarchist. He served in the French and Soviet militaries.
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