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Sewing Machines & Union Machines
Hill, Herbert | July 3, 1967 issue

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When a group of teen-age girls, mainly Afro-American and Puerto Rican high school dropouts in New York City, bitterly defended their sewing machines and their right to learn a craft, the drama at the Lower West Side Community Center, a unit of the Neighborhood Youth Corps, was reported in many newspapers. However, the real story, the refusal of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA), both AFL-CIO affiliates, to permit the federal training of apparel workers was little noted. The New York Times failed to mention that events occurred as the result of ILGWU and ACWA opposition to federal training in the clothing trades.

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HIGH school dropouts; PUERTO Ricans; AFRICAN Americans; TEENAGERS; SEWING machines; NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States
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