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  2. Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union - Wikipedia

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    The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) was a labor union representing workers in two related industries in the United States. The union was founded in 1976, when the Textile Workers Union of America merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. The small American Federation of Hosiery Workers also joined. On ...

  3. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America - Wikipedia

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    The Amalgamated solidified its gains and extended its power in Chicago through a series of strikes in the last half of the 1910s. The Amalgamated found it harder, on the other hand, to make gains in Baltimore, where it was able to sign an agreement with one of the largest manufacturers that, like HSM (Hart Schaffner and Marx) in Chicago, sought labor peace, it found itself at odds with an ...

  4. Jack Sheinkman - Wikipedia

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    The union merged into the new Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, and Sheinkman continued as secretary-treasurer, then in 1987, he was elected as its president. As leader of the union, he was prominent in opposition to CIA activities in Nicaragua , and was also known for working with companies in an attempt to persuade them to keep ...

  5. Ann Washington Craton - Wikipedia

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    Early in his career, he had been a newspaper reporter and union activist, and he had, like Craton, been a publicity director of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers' Union. [77] [note 9] During her married life, Craton carried out some research on social conditions in coal mining areas and assembled materials for a biography of her husband. She ...

  6. United Garment Workers of America - Wikipedia

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    At the UGW's 1914 convention in Nashville, Tennessee, a number of large urban locals, with stronger Socialist loyalties and more willingness to strike, and who represented a full two-thirds of the national membership, split off to form the rival Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America under Hillman's founding leadership.

  7. Textile Workers Union of America - Wikipedia

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    Local 169, New York City. In 1901, the United Textile Workers of America (UTW) was formed as an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). The UTW, which had its greatest strength in the North, called a strike of textile workers in 1934 to protest worsening working conditions during the Great Depression.

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  9. Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union - Wikipedia

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