Stetin, Sol

Sol Stetin, trade unionist, educator and leader of a landmark campaign to organize textile workers employed by J.P. Stevens & Company at factories in the American South, was born in Pabianice, Poland on April 2, 1910. He immigrated to the United States as a youth of ten and settled with his parents in Paterson, New Jersey. (1)

"We came steerage, third class, and I was always hungry," Stetin explained, in a 1977 profile recounting his passage from Europe. "I learned a few English words quickly, and I was always going to the [ship's] chef to get extra food for my family." (2)

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