The Sun Recalls a Garment Striker's Fate

• Author: Center for History and New Media/American Social History Project
• Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences
• Institution Name: American Social History Project/Center for History and New Media
• Collection: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
• Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary

• Abstract: In 1909, the predominantly immigrant and female workers in New York City's garment industry staged a series of job walkouts that led to a massive general strike involving more than 20,000 workers. Fifteen-year-old shirtwaist worker Clara Lemlich, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, emerged as a key organizer and speaker. An unprovoked attack on Lemlich and her fellow female strikers by anti-union thugs was recorded by New York Sun correspondent McAlister Coleman. He retold the story years later in his article, "All of Which I Saw," published in the Progressive in 1950.

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