international ladies garment workers' union
111SHEINKMAN, JACOB — (1926–2004), labor leader and Jewish communal leader. Sheinkman was born in New York City. After serving in the Navy in World War II, he attended Cornell University and was one of the first graduates of the School of Labor and Industrial… …
112November 1909 — January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December November 13, 1909: 259 people killed in Cherry Mine disaster …
113BRESLAW, JOSEPH — (1887–1957), U.S. labor leader. Breslaw, who was born in Odessa, went to the United States in 1907. He worked as a cloak presser in the garment industry and joined a local union in 1909. Breslaw was rapidly promoted, and in 1916 became its… …
114DYCHE, JOHN ALEXANDER — (1867–1939), U.S. labor leader. Dyche was born in Kovno, Lithuania. He went to New York City in 1900 after 14 years in England, where he was active in trade unionism. Dyche soon became involved in the newly founded International Ladies Garment… …
115PESOTTA, ROSE — (1896–1965), third woman vice president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), anarchist, and labor activist. The second of eight children (originally named Rachelle), she was born in Derazhnya in the Ukraine to observant… …
116Jewish left — The term Jewish left describes Jews who identify with or support left wing, occasionally liberal causes, consciously as Jews, either as individuals or through organizations. There is no one organization or movement which constitutes the Jewish… …
117Language federation — Language Federations were formed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century by immigrants to the United States, primarily from Eastern and Southern Europe, who shared a commitment to some form of socialist politics. Some of these groups… …
118Kalmen Kaplansky — Kalmen Kaplansky, O.C., (January 5, 1912 December 10, 1997) was a civil, human rights and trade union activist in Canada. [http://www.dcf.ca/en/scholarships/kalmen kaplansky.htm Kalmen Kaplansky Scholarship in Economic and Social Rights, Douglas… …
119STULBERG, LOUIS — (1901–1977), U.S. labor leader. Stulberg, a lifelong unionist, began as a teenage garment cutter and rose to become president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), leading that organization for 10 years. In contrast with his… …
120WOLFSON, THERESA — (1897–1972), U.S. economist. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Wolfson received her B.A. from Adelphi College in 1917, her M.A. from Columbia University in 1923, and her Ph.D. from the Brookings Institution in 1926. A specialist in labor economics and …
