Richard Rothstein, Collector. Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union Posters.

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Richard Rothstein, Collector. Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union Posters.

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Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union

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The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the most significant union representing workers in the men's clothing industry, was founded in New York City in 1914 as a breakaway movement from the United Garment Workers. Radical and immigrant workers in the tailors’ and cutters’ locals were the core of the seceding group, which advocated industrial unionism and economic strikes in opposition to the UGW’s craft organization, which they saw as conservative and timid. Their diverging vie...