Jonas, Sidney.

Sidney Jonas was born in Poland and emigrated to the United States in 1922. He worked in a Brooklyn shoe factory and was involved in the Lovestone faction of the Communist Party, which dominated the CP from 1927-29. Jonas became active with the Lovestoneites who were expelled from the CP in 1930, becoming the Communist Oppositionists of the United States. He organized shoeworkers in the early thirties in New York and Massachusetts and became a United Shoe and Leather Workers Union field organizer in 1934. He attended Brookwood Labor College in 1934. In 1936 Homer Martin of the UAW-CIO hired him as his personal representative and as Director of the Northeast Region. He worked as an organizer in this capacity until 1938.

Sidney Jonas, a labor union organizer, began his career by organizing shoe-workers. In 1934, he was appointed as a fieldworker for the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union. In 1936, United Automobile Workers (UAW-CIO) president, Homer Martin, appointed Jonas as his personal representative and director of the Northeast Region for the UAW-CIO. Jonas worked in this capacity until 1938.