Philoine Fried, Interviewee. "My Mother Bessie Abramovitz Hillman", Nov. 10, 1996.

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Philoine Fried, Interviewee. "My Mother Bessie Abramovitz Hillman", Nov. 10, 1996.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180689680

Interview was done by Richard Strassberg.

4 audio cassettes.

Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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Hillman, Bessie

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Bessie Abramowitz Hillman, labor leader, union organizer, and first woman executive, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA). A pioneer in the early 20th century labor movement, Bessie Hillman (née Abramowitz) was born in Grodno, Russia, in 1889. She emigrated to the United States in 1905 and started working as a button sewer in a Chicago garment factory. There she began her long career as a labor organizer, forming a shop committee to protest working conditions,...

Fried, Philoine.

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