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Max Federman
- Accession Number
- 2018-4-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-4-6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1980-1990
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of four typed speeches delivered by Max Federman related to labour issues and a photocopy of a Toronto Star article on Max Federman (furriers union) and Ross Russell (United Electrical Workers), communism, labour day parade participation and workers issues.
- Administrative History
- Max Federman was born 18 September 1902, in Poland, the son of Issie and Hinda Federman. His father moved to Canada in 1911, but it wasn't until he finished his education in Germany in 1920 that Max joined his family in Toronto. He later married Evelyn (née Raisberg) and had one child, Lillian (Skopit). A union leader, Labour Zionist and ardent anti-Communist, Federman was the manager of the Fur Workers Union of Toronto, Local 82 and Local 68. He was involved in a twenty-year battle with the Communist leadership of the International Fur and Leather Union, until they disbanded and merged with the International Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union. He then became a member of the Board of the Fur and Leather Department, International Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union. He was an executive of the Toronto District Trades and Labour Council and the Trade Union Committee, and an active leader in the CCF, and later, the New Democratic Party. Federman was involved with many Jewish community organizations and held several positions such as board member of Histadrut; board member of the Jewish Labour Committee; board member of the Borochov School; chairman of the Achdut Avodah Poale Zion in Toronto and actively involved with the State of Israel Bonds. In 1948, he was instrumental in bringing to Canada over 500 furriers and their families from displaced persons camps in Germany, Austria and Italy. Federman died on 8 August 1991, at the age of 88.
- Source
- Archival Accessions