Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. General Secretary-Treasurer.
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Joseph Schlossberg, cloakmaker, labor organizer, co-founder and first secretary-treasurer, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.
Joseph Schlosseberg was born in Belorussia in 1875 and emigrated to the United States in 1888. He left school in New York after only a year and began working as a garment maker. He became involved in organizing garment workers in the 1890s and worked with several unions in the industry in the 1900s and 1910s. He was one of the founding members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) and was elected the first secretary-treasurer of the union in 1914. He left the union in 1940 to devote his time to Zionist and community affairs. He died in 1971.
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Anti-fascist movements
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