Passaic Textile Workers Strike Case – Correspondence, 1926

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Box 160, Folder 1

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1 folder(s)

Biographical / historical:

Some 16,000 textile workers participated in the strike, centered in Passaic, New Jersey and initially organized as the "United Front Committee" by the Workers (Communist Party) before being transferred to the leadership of the American Federation of Labor. W. Jett Lauck served as a consulting economist to the strikers, chairman of the Plenary Committee (also known as The Citizens Committee or the Lauck Committee) representing the strikers and overseeing transition to the American Federation of Labor, economist for the National Committee for Passaic Relief and Defense, and member of the Temporary Committee for Establishment of American Standards of Life for Textile Workers, as well as participated in the case on the floor of the Senate and in Senate Committees.

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