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David Dubinsky delivering a speech, as John L. Lewis and others listen
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CIO and AFL Conference, March 10, 1939, Biltmore Hotel, New York, with Harry C. Bates, Matthew Woll, Tomas Pickirt, Daniel Tobin, Sidney Hillman, Philip Murray, John L. Lewis
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Midvale Company operators opening 50 ton ladle to pour molten steel, 1930
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Members of the Union Label Chorus perform on a set that includes sewing machines and clothing on racks.
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Women sewing in a garment shop, November 12, 1962
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Harry Truman speaks at a black-tie event. Above him is a portrait of Samuel Gompers.
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The Triangle Waist Company fire escape, weakened by the heat of the fire, leads from upper floors of the Asch Building
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Group of primarily Chinese American women at Unity House
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David Dubinsky and others in a posed group photograph
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A manufacturer and the Union Price Committee examine garments to estimate the work involved as a basis for piece rates.
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David Dubinsky looks at a sculpted bust of himself.
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Group listening to speaker at an outdoor STFU meeting
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Norman Thomas speaking at an outdoor STFU meeting. An unidentified Black man stands with him on stage
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Philip Kramer of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Boston, and his wife Ann Kramer, celebrate his recent retirement with Arthur Marcus, Jay Fialkow, Sol Chaikin, Selma Gottlieb, and Edward Milano, November 19, 1972.
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A man preparing to press a garment in an early garment factory
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Midvale Company employees signing the American Federation of Labor agreement, July 30, 1954
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Magnet #3 in open hearth stock yard. Midvale Company employee Henry Johnson in railroad car, main office in background, April 8, 1954
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Workers operate hammer #1 breaking tire bloom at Midvale Steel Company, ca. 1887
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The finale of the first act of "Pins & Needles," at the Labor Stage in New York
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ILGWU Local 23-25 parade delegations meet religious leaders.
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Norman Thomas speaking at an outdoor STFU meeting
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Rows of women sewing in a garment shop
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Early balloting at Union Hall. The ILGWU Waist & Dress makers voting on an agreement, August 1913.
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The ILGWU Local 152 men's and women's basketball team from Central High, Bridgeport, Connecticut
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Cleveland strike leaders include, left to right, seated: Anna Epstein, ILGWU organizer; James E. Malley, Secretery, Cleveland Federation of Labor; standing: Abraham Katovsky, Business Agent, Cleveland Joint Board; Charles Kreindler, Financial Secretary, J
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ILGWU Local 142 discussion group on trade unionism, February 4, 1935
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Dressmakers Local 22 assist British-Russian Medical Aid Fund sends x-ray units, medical supplies and clothing to help relieve suffering of victims of Nazi aggression
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Woman cooking on a wood cook stove in a house at Delta Cooperative
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From image verso: "Multiple use of film to save expense of time study. The pictures are not so good for motion study as those that are full size." Multiple frames of man working at a task with a time recorder.
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Panel from Diego Rivera's mural depicting expansion and the American dream. Important figures include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, Sam Houston, Alexander Hamilton, John Jacob, William B. Astor, Andrew Jackson, and Samuel F. B. Morse.
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A woman with a baby in her arms, sits next to six children sleeping on a mattress on the floor.
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Men and women sewing in a shop with piles of garment pieces all around them
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Billboard "Delta Planters Prefer - 'Aero' Cyanamid, The Nitrogen Fertilizer that Sweetens the Soil" shows wealthy man standing near a field of ripe cotton
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Main office of the Midvale Steel Company, ca. 1887
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Norman Thomas speaking at an outdoor STFU meeting
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Drawing "The Locked Door!" refers to the Triangle fire and depicts young women throwing themselves against a locked door in an attempt to escape the flames.
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David Dubinsky, Charles Zimmerman, and Averell Harriman talk quietly during the Silver Jubilee Convention.
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Group of STFU members at an outdoor meeting in September
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African American members of ILGWU Local 222 picket outside.
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"Going out for better conditions." Group of men and women marching in the street
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Illustration, by Lola, of a man and a woman representing the cloak boss and the union threatening each other. Original title and caption read, Peace Talk at the Point of a Dagger: He: "Do you love me kitten...?" She "Certainly, just as much as you love me
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A man's hands cutting a small stack of fabric with a hand tool
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Two well-dressed women wave from a coach with a sign that reads: "Dressmakers of Bergdorf Goodman are on Strike against Horse and Buggy Wages!"
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Portrait of an unidentified labor leader
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David Dubinsky, Luigi Antonini, Julius Hochman, and others around a dining table at Unity House
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Terminating nineteen weeks' strike, representatives of Industrial Council and Union sign new collective agreement which runs to June 1929. Pictured are I. Grossman, Louis Lustig, Henry H. Finder, Louis Hyman, Morris Sprayregen, Samuel Klein, George Jablo
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Participants at the first fully organized ILGWU general strike, known as the 'Great Revolt,' Union Square, 1909.
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An everyday shipment weighing approximately 200,000 pounds is brought into Midvale Steel Company by train. The large building in the center is Link Belt Engineering Company photographed from the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad siding at Midvale, looki
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Four Midvale Company employees working tongs in Smith Shop, August 1932
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"Strike against reduction in wages of 10 to 40 percent after having been out for 8 weeks. Schwab's Clothing Factory, St. Louis, MO. May 1912" "Liberty Service" "Strike Series" Men and women pose with strike placards in front of the Schwab Clothing Compan
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Four female members of ILGWU Local 221 drinking coffee as they picket
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Long tables of mostly women sewing in a garment shop
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Charles Zimmerman gets an award from the New York City Central Labor Council and is seen with David Dubinsky, Julius Hochman, William Green and another man at banquet table
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Midvale Steel Company executives standing in front of the main office building. Second row from back on the left, possibly Frederick W. Taylor (with cap) and Henry L. Gantt (with derby), ca. 1887
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A multiracial group marches with picket signs reading, "ILGWU South Bronx Working Center is in sympathy and solidarity with the loss of our children in Atlanta."
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Women posing for a group photo during the Cloakmakers strike of 1910.
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Morris Sigman and Fiorello LaGuardia, pictured during the years of turmoil within the ILGWU, 1924-1929
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Eleanor Roosevelt and President John F. Kennedy at the dedication of the ILGWU cooperative housing in New York, 1962
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From image verso "Chronocyclegraph of two hands folding cloth."
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WPA workers shoveling plant material
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