Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Oral history project, 1990.

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Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Oral history project, 1990.

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Interviews by Gail Malgreen with ACWA leaders. Releases signed and included from each interviewee. Interviews with Henry Dropkin, Murray H. Finley, Scott Hoyman, and Peter Swoboda.

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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...

Swoboda, Peter

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Malgreen, Gail.

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Hoyman, Scott

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Finley, Murray H.

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Dropkin, Henry.

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