Sidney Hillman

Sidney Hillman

Although trained to become a rabbi, Sidney Hillman (1887-1946) became a political activist in tzarist Russia After arriving in the United States in 1907, Hillman became a union organizer and in 1914 helped found the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.  Hillman played a major role in the organizing campaigns of the 1930s.  In the 1950s the Amalgamated local in Philadelphia opened the Sidney Hillman Medical Center and apartments in Center City.

University of Illinois Library, The clothing workers of Chicago, 1910-1922

The clothing workers of Chicago, 1910-1922

1922

Michael Weiss

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