[Marxism] early Laundry Workers' Union?

["acpollack2@xxxxxxxx" <acpollack2@xxxxxxxx>]

http://www.dclabor.org/index.php?display=EventDetails&id=1221
I think I first saw this mentioned at Portside, but anyway in announcing a 
tribute to Jerry Garcia (link above), labor singer Joe Uehlein mentions not 
only Garcia's own support for labor but his having been raised by a Laundry 
Worker union organizer. I can't remember if that union merged with someone 
else, or if it went out of existence. A quick Google search shows a couple 
references to it from the '30s and '40s.
It's relevant for two reasons: one, struggles at laundries today (like Cintas), 
and two, the perpetual need to revive the history of organizing in sectors like 
this that didn't succeed at first -- and to honor the pioneers who tried (I'm 
thinking the Laundry Workers may have been a left-led union like the office 
workers' union that died in the '50s.)
Anyone know more?
Andrew

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