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Sidney Hillman

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Sidney Hillman · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and architect of New Deal-era labor protections

When

1887, Žagarė, Lithuania (Russian Empire) — 1946, Point Lookout, New York, United States

Where

Lithuania · United States

Biography

Sidney Hillman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and architect of New Deal-era labor protections

How & why

Sidney Hillman was a Lithuanian-born American labor leader who became president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and a co-founder of the CIO. A close ally of Franklin Roosevelt, he was an architect of New Deal-era labor protections and a major force in industrial unionism. Raised in an observant Jewish family (originally trained for the rabbinate), he was Jewish.

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President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and architect of New Deal-era labor protections

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