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Labor Helps Itself: Amalgamated Welfare Plan
Astor, Eleanor | August 7, 1954 issue

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The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America celebrated its fortieth anniversary last May. For its 385,000 members, the occasion commemorated forty years of progress from the sweatshop to security. When other unions were content with bargaining for gains on a day-to-day basis, the Amalgamated held to the belief that a worker should receive something more for his labor than a scanty wage. It refused to admit that a human being was a mere commodity to be sold to the highest bidder and then, when his usefulness was spent, thrown into the street.

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LABOR unions -- United States; ANNIVERSARIES; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; LABOR; WAGES; UNITED States
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