Ben Gold
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Benjamin Gold was a Russian-born Jewish American labor leader and Communist Party member who was president of the International Fur and Leather Workers Union from 1937 to 1955.
Gold c. 1946
A group of fur workers active in the 1912 strike. Fourteen year-old Ben Gold is second from the left in the front row.
Gold in the hospital after being assaulted by "reactionaries" in the Furriers' Union c. December 1923
Portrait by Hugo Gellert, 1927
Harry Bridges
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Harry Bridges was an Australian-born American union leader, first with the International Longshoremen's Association. In 1937, he led several Pacific Coast chapters of the ILA to form a new union, the
Bridges in 1935
Central figure representing Bridges, from Anton Refregier's 1948 murals at the Rincon Center (formerly the Rincon Annex Post Office)
Bridges during the strike, July 9, 1934
Bridges shaking hands with fellow "Red" labor leader Charles S. Zimmerman c. 1930s