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Excerpt from The New Unionism, in the Clothing Industry Some readers of this book may miss emphasis on the names of important union officials such as Sidney Hillmann and Joseph Schlossberg of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and Benjamin Schlesinger and Abraham Baroff of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union. If we once began to assign credit to individuals, however, the list could not stop with the Presidents and General Secretaries, but would go on through Managers, Business Agents, Delegates, Shop Chairmen, until it had included well-nigh every member of the unions. To write a book about the needle-trades organizations without giving due praise to all the able and devoted officials is not to write a Hamlet with the Hamlet left out, for the greatest possible tribute to them is an exhibition of the movement with which they have been associated. Our thanks is due to the Survey for permission to reprint the quotations from Katherine Coman in Chapter IV. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.