[Papers]. [19--]

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[Papers]. [19--]

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Labor-related materials donated by Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union retirees from an advertisement placed by the Textile Museum in the union newsletter, Seniority: A Newsletter for ACTWU retirees (April 1981). Includes two undated notes from Noga, one saying that he belongs to Chicago Local 61, fought for Amalgameted [Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union], and has a hole in his skull to prove it; the other appearing to be written to someone looking for men with whom he fought in strikes and indicating they are all gone. Also includes a newspaper article about Noga from an Oregon newspaper, dated Jan. 22, 1981.

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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...

Noga, Francois.

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Biographical information included with the collection indicates that Noga was born in Austria in 1892, came to Chicago, was an artist and violin-maker who also worked for 49 years as a garment cutter, perhaps for Kuppenheimer and Company, manufacturers of men's clothing. He later lived in Scappoose, Oregon. From the description of [Papers]. [19--] (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 49919640 ...

Kuppenheimer and Company

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