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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joseph Barondess, one of the Founding Fathers (in 1900) of the I.L.G.W.U. A Russian-born Jew, the son of a family of rabbis, Barondess endeared himself to needle trades proletarians by his "golden voice," "hypnotic powers over an audience," his habit of "quoting the Bible in the manner of a cultivated freethinker." He spent "the last decade of his life as an insurance agent, selling policies to the workers in the needle trades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pins & Needles | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

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