Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). Southern Regional Joint Board. Files 1997-2003.

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Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). Southern Regional Joint Board. Files 1997-2003.

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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...