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Article: International Ladies Garment Workers Union
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- Dictionary of American History
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INTERNATIONAL LADIES GARMENT WORKERS UNION
INTERNATIONAL LADIES GARMENT WORKERS UNION
(ILGWU), founded in 1900, a major factor in American labor, radical, socialist, and Jewish history. The first leaders of the ILGWU, moderate Jewish socialists and labor veterans, were the victorious survivors of many years of labor struggles and internecine political warfare in the New York garment industry, which had been inundated by immigrant Jewish "greenhorns." These "Columbus tailors" found their advocate in Abraham Cahan's
Jewish Daily Forward,
which was struggling to assimilate them into socialist-flavored Americanism.
As a small, moribund, craft-minded organization, the early ILGWU narrowly ...
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Article: ILGWU, ACTWU on road to merger. (International Ladies ...
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January 30, 1995 ;
700+ words
...NEW YORK - Faced with shrinking ... political clout, the ILGWU and the ACTWU are ... created by the ILGWU and is partially ... city and state of New York. "The merger ... facilities, while the ILGWU still has a great concentration in New York City and other ...
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