Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strike will materially improve the position of the union, Mr. Dubinsky explained because "out of 45,000 workers employed, 80% are girls. They are forced to work under standard conditions, which means that they are employed 50 hours a week and that their earnings do not exceed, in many instances, $25 or $30 a week...
Stoutly opposed was the great, bass-voiced Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan. While he is inclined to favor all-Jewish union, he regards the present Zionist leadership as weak, inadequate. Also opposed was the revisionist group, which is dissatisfied with the powerful conduct of the Zionist cause...
...gathered in Zurich for the 16th biennial Zionist congress, he was less happy. For he was the appointed spokesman of a great project and in the bearded assemblage he saw many a gleaming, antagonistic eye. The project (in motion for six years) was the foundation of an All-Jewish Union, embracing both Zionists and non-Zionists, for the upbuilding of Palestine. "A Jewish national home, . . ." said Dr. Weizmann, "is no longer the concern of Zionists alone. It must of necessity become a centre which attracts the energies of Jews everywhere...
...Jewish union is as simple in principle as it will be necessarily complex in practice. It means that Zionists, working for the growth of Jewish Palestine politically and in every other way, will be joined in spurring that growth by non-Zionists, whose interest is non-political and extends to other Jewish colonization projects (such as that in Soviet Russia...
...Weizmann including three names famed in U. S. Jewry: Lotus Lipsky, Zionist editor of Manhattan, and Publicist Henrietta Szold and Rabbi Meyer Berlin, two one-time Manhattanites now living in Jerusalem. All eyes then turned toward Zurich Town Hall and the first council meeting of the All-Jewish Union...