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Mayor Wilson Helps Settle Strike
This newspaper article announces the end of a hosiery strike in 1936.
Multilingual poster from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) general strike, 1919.
The picture is of a poster promoting the ACWA's general strike of 1919. The poster is in Hebrew, English and a few other languages.
Police and Picketers
Philadelphia Record caption: "Sex evidently did not matter in this free-for-all battle between Paterson, N.J. silk strikers and the police. This woman bore several black and blue souvenirs after the conflict. Nineteen pickets were arrested for…
Strike Leaders Plan Pickets
Leaders of the strike in Philadelphia meet to perfect plans for continued picketing. They are (left to right) Louis Heines, American Federation of Labor organizer; William Smith, American Federation of Hosiery Workers; Laurence Laborle, United…
United Textile Workers of America "Striker"
An accompanying description for the newspaper photo reads: "You'll See Plenty of These! Miss Virginia Matthews, pretty secretary at headquarters of the textile workers, 2012 Stella st., displays one of the 'banners' which will be worn by strikers."