Nathan Eckstein

Nathan Eckstein (January 10, 1873 – October 21, 1945[1]) was a German-born American businessman, associated in business and by marriage with the Schwabacher Brothers firm and family.

[2] After a gymnasium education in Munich, he emigrated to New York City, where he spent a decade in the wholesale grocery business[3] beginning in 1888.

[6] Eckstein became vice president and later chief executive officer of Schwabachers, guiding the company through both World Wars and the Great Depression.

If every Jew belonged to a temple or synagogue there would not be one percent of the prejudice that exists today"[11] By the late 1930s, Eckstein, though still running Schwabachers', had a much-improved relationship with organized labor.

In 1937 and 1938, he was part of a citizen's committee that successfully arbitrated in a jurisdictional dispute between the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) under Harry Bridges and the Teamsters under Dave Beck over organizing inland warehouse workers.