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Trade Board meeting
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Trade Board of the Wholesale Clothiers, Wholesale Tailors, Cut Trim and Make Association, etc., B. M. Squires, Impartial Chairman". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
West Side Auditorium meeting
Image | 1921 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Meeting of all of Joint Board Delegates, Local Executives and Shop Chairmen. West Side Auditorium, Jan. 13, 1921. Presented to Captains and Lieutenants of the $1,000,000 Lockout Fund Chicago Joint Board Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America." On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Joseph Goldman
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Joseph Goldman, President. Officers Chicago Joint Board". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Local Union No. 183 in parade
Image | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Local Union No. 183 in Chicago Labor Day Parade."
Executive Offices, Chicago Joint Board
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoFrank Rosenblum Directing".
Bohemian Coat Makers Local 6
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Officers and Executive Board Members Bohemian Coat Makers Local 6". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Bessie Abramowitz
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Bessie Abramowitz (Mrs. Sidney Hillman)". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Joseph Schlossberg
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Joseph Schlossberg, General Secretary-Treasurer".
Jacob S. Potofsky
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Jacob S. Potofsky, Assistant General Secretary-Treasurer". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Striking clothing workers parade
Image | 1915 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "15,000 Striking Clothing Workers on Parade October 12, 1915". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Organizing staff for 1919 campaign
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Organizing Staff--1919 Campaign". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Emilio Grandinetti
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoOne of four individuals depicted above caption: "National Organizers, Chicago Campaign, 1919". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Cutters and Trimmers Commission
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Cutters and Trimmers Commission, Hart, Schaffner and Marx, James Mullenbach, Chairman". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Pant Makers Local 144
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Officers and Executive Board Members, Pant Makers Local 144". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
A. N. Fisher
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "A. N. Fisher, President, 1920-1921. Officers Chicago Joint Board". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Alex Levin
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Alex Levin, Chairman, Board of Directors. Officers Chicago Joint Board". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Library Main Office Chicago Joint Board
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Library Main Office Chicago Joint Board Amalgamated Clothing Workers". From text: "While these large meetings constitute the center of the educational activities of the union, classes for the instruction of small groups have also on occasion been provided. It is the purpose of the Joint Board to facilitate reading and study by the building of a library which has ...
Ellen Gates Starr
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "The value of the services of such women during the strike as Ellen Gates Starr, Mrs. Raymond Robins, Jane Addams, Amelia Sears, Mrs. Lillie, Mrs. John Furie, Grace Abbott, and others, was incalculable. Without almost a single important exception the sympathy of the public leaned to the side of the workers and had its effect in weakening and undermining the moral...
Samuel Levin
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Samuel Levin, Manager. Chicago Joint Board Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America."
Finance Department
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Finance Department Main Office Chicago Joint Board Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America."
Mrs. Raymond Robins
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "… the Chicago Women's Trade Union League, of which Mrs. Raymond Robins was then President. ... A Strike Committee was immediately organized by the League and began to work through the following sub-committees: Strike fund committee, of which Mrs. Robins was Chairman."
Italian Coat Makers Local 270
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Officers and Executive Board Members Italian Coat Makers Local 270". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Nettie Richardson
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoOne of four individuals depicted above caption: "National Organizers, Chicago Campaign, 1919". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
M. C. Fisch
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "M. C. Fisch, Recording Secretary. Officers Chicago Joint Board". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Arrangements Committee
Image | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Arrangements Committee, 5th Biennial Convention, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Chicago May 8-13, 1922". On photograph: ""371 I. P. E. U."
Officers of Local Union No. 183
Image | Picture Chicagothe leaders were dismissed and have never been reinstated. This same young girl, a victim of the conditions under which she worked, when dying of consumption, was still a leading spirit."
Michael Donnelly addressing crowd
Image | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Michael Donnelly Addressing the Cattle Butchers." From text: " The coming, four years ago, of Michael Donnelly into the stock yards, made us conscious of a renaissance, that, owing to many forces not in evidence until he organized the workers, made them as well as ourselves conscious of their social value. Mr. Donnelly ... secured his first dozen cattle butchers...
Samuel Kapper
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Samuel Kapper, Killed in 1915 Strike". From text: "On October 26th Samuel Kapper, one of the strikers, was shot and killed and a large number of others wounded in a riot at Harrison and Halsted streets. More than ten thousand striking garment workers paid their tribute at the funeral to this hero of the strike." On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Leo Krzycki
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoOne of four individuals depicted above caption: "National Organizers, Chicago Campaign, 1919". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
John E. Williams
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "John E. Williams, Chairman, Board of Arbitration, 1912-1919". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Louis Schultz
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Louis Schultz, Vice President. Officers Chicago Joint Board". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Educational meeting and concert
Image | 1921 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Reception to Sidney Hillman International President A.C.W. of A. On His Return from Europe at the Educational Meeting and Concert Nov. 18, 1921 by the Chicago Joint Board of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Ashland Auditorium". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
John Fitzpatrick
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "Mr. John Fitzpatrick, President of the Chicago Federation of Labor, agreed to help them and from that time on devoted his entire time to their cause."
Jane Addams
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "The value of the services of such women during the strike as Ellen Gates Starr, Mrs. Raymond Robins, Jane Addams, Amelia Sears, Mrs. Lillie, Mrs. John Furie, Grace Abbott, and others, was incalculable. Without almost a single important exception the sympathy of the public leaned to the side of the workers and had its effect in weakening and undermining the moral...
Sewing Machine Adjusters Local 272
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Officers and Executive Board Members Sewing Machine Adjusters Local 272".
Polish Coat Makers Local 38
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Officers and Executive Board Members Polish Coat Makers Local 38". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Home of Chicago Joint Board
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Site of the New Home of the Chicago Joint Board, Ashland Boulevard and Adams Street."
Officers, deputies and delegates
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Officers, Deputies & Delegates of The Chicago Joint Board Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America Jan. 12, 1922."
Executive Offices, Chicago Joint Board
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoFrank Rosenblum Directing".
Sidney Hillman
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Sidney Hillman, General President". From text: "Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, was an apprentice cutter in Hart, Schaffner and Marx and a striker in the strike of 1910."

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