Union Broadside in Yiddish, Italian and English
date: label: date made
content: 1916
label: associated date
content: May 3, 1916
notes: label: Description
content: In the early 1900s, union organizers overcame the seemingly impossible task of uniting employees in factories and small scattered shops. Surmounting ethnic divisions and hostile owners, workers built lasting labor unions within the major divisions of the garment industry. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union organized women’s and children’s apparel workers; the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America focused on men’s clothing employees; and the United Garment Workers of America centered primarily on makers of work clothing.
label: Description
content: With President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation granting unions legal protection to organize, membership in needle trade unions rose to more than 400,000 out of a garment industry work force of more than 600,000 in 1934.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: made at
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: general subject association
content: Textile Processing and Production
label: general subject association
content: Labor Unions
label: general subject association
content: Strikes and Boycotts
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content: Political History: Political History
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Sweatshops
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content: Princeton Posters
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: International Ladies Garment Workers Union
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0710.0043
label: accession number
content: 1986.0710
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0710.0043
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Poster
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in; 44.45 cm x 29.21 cm