Jay Mazur, Zealous Advocate for Garment Workers, Dies at 92
A blunt-speaking, Bronx-born labor leader, he successfully pushed to legalize undocumented union members but fought a losing ...
PBS7 年
Pauline Newman: Organizer
Pauline Newman helped advance the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) to become a dominant force in 20th century industrial America. Born in the early 1890s in Kovno, Lithuania ...
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Jay Mazur, zealous advocate for garment workers, dies at 92
The son of a presser in a clothes factory, Mazur joined the staff of the storied International Ladies Garment Workers Union at 18. He spent his 51-year career militantly championing a largely ...
PBS7 年
Clara Lemlich and the Uprising of the 20,000
Appalled by these circumstances, Lemlich joined the executive board of a local chapter of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), a relatively new organization gaining momentum ...