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Garment Workers Eating Together Before Union-Sponsored Class

Garment Workers Eating Together Before Union-Sponsored Class

he class which Yetta attends once a week... starts at 6:30 in the evening. Since Yetta quits work at 5:30, she cannot get home for dinner. So the union provides a free buffet of sandwiches, coffee, cake. Here she sits with others of her class in a small classroom talking and finishing her coffee. When they have all finished, they will go to the next room where the union, having given them food for their stomachs, will give food for their eager minds.

Photograph by Hansel Mieth in "ILGWU: A Great and Good Union Points the Way for America's Labor Movement," LIFE Magazine, August 1, 1938, 47.

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Date / time
August 1, 1938
Owner
The Picture Collection Inc.
Institution
The Picture Collection Inc.
Date published
August 1, 1938
Author(s)
Mieth, Hansel
Publisher
LIFE Magazine
Publication
LIFE Magazine
Extent number
1
Pages
47
Transcript

Original Caption Reads: The class which Yetta attends once a week... starts at 6:30 in the evening. Since Yetta quits work at 5:30, she cannot get home for dinner. So the union provides a free buffet of sandwiches, coffee, cake. Here she sits with others of her class in a small classroom talking and finishing her coffee. When they have all finished, they will go to the next room where the union, having given them food for their stomachs, will give food for their eager minds.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Garment Workers Eating Together Before Union-Sponsored Class." (Viewed on December 25, 2024) <https://jwa.org/media/garment-workers-eating-together-before-union-sponsored-class>.