Re: [Marxism] FW: May 1935 women's meat boycott

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

The place to start of course is A. Orleck's "Common Sense and a Little 
Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-
1965," which discusses Clara Lemlich, UCWCW founder and two other
working-class women leaders. 
(for those new to Lemlich and UCWCW see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Lemlich)
The Tamiment library at NYU has UCWCW material.
Now as for union involvement: I haven't read the book above in a while
(and will look at it again), but as Lemlich was a CPer, I have to
assume that the UCWCW got at least paper endorsement from unions
with significant CP influence, and very likely significant active
support at its meetings, picket lines, etc. That's just the way the
CP and similar parties operated, to get members in one mass
organization to agitate for support from others.
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Can anyone supply some bibliography on the May 22, 1935, New York City
women's boycott of butchers, under the auspices of the United Council of 
Working-Class Women? Was any trade union even  tangentially involved?

Thanks.
Laura Hapke
New York Tech/CUNY




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