All For One

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All For One

1967

Tells the story of the contribution women have made to Labor progress--the battle for fair wages and treatment, for decent hours and working conditions, for all the things which today we take for granted but which would not have been possible without courageous, concerned--and too often forgotten--people like Rose Schneiderman. She became the organizer and later president of the New York Women's Trade Union League, and helped to organize the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. She was also the only woman on the Labor Advisory Board of the National Recovery Act.

viii, 264 pages illustrations, portraits 22 cm

eng, Latn

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Schneiderman, Rose, 1882-1972

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Rose Schneiderman (April 6, 1882 – August 11, 1972) was a Polish-born American socialist and feminist, and one of the most prominent female labor union leaders. As a member of the New York Women's Trade Union League, she drew attention to unsafe workplace conditions, following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, and as a suffragist she helped to pass the New York state referendum of 1917 that gave women the right to vote. Schneiderman was also a founding member of the American Civil Li...