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Women's Trade Union League
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The Women's Trade Union League was a U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions. The
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WTUL float, Labor Day parade, New York, 1908
WTUL float, Labor Day parade, New York, 1908
1st International Congress of Working Women called by the National Women's Trade Union League of America, Washington, D.C., October 28, 1919
1st International Congress of Working Women called by the National Women's Trade Union League of America, Washington, D.C., October 28, 1919
Clara Lemlich
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Clara Lemlich Shavelson was a leader of the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York's garment industry in 1909, where she spoke in Yiddish and called for action. Later
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…Kehew, while the working class members of the WTUL included figures like Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, Rose Schneiderman, Pauline Newman, Fannia Cohn, and Clara Lemlich. The heyday of the League came between 1907 and 1922 under the presidency of Margaret Dreier Robins. During that period, the WTUL led the drive to…
Lemlich c. 1910
Lemlich c. 1910
Sketch of Lemlich from a 1909 article in The Kansas City Star, captioned with "Miss Clara Lemlich, who is at the head of thirty thousand girl strikers
Sketch of Lemlich from a 1909 article in The Kansas City Star, captioned with "Miss Clara Lemlich, who is at the head of thirty thousand girl strikers in New York."