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          Draft by Clara Lemlich Shavelson of Bi-Weekly letter of the Jewish Women's City Committee.

        1. Clara Lemlich Shavelson began organizing women into the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in , forcing male union leaders to.
        2. Clara Lemlich was born on March 28 , in Horodok, Ukraine.
        3. Shavelson (Lemlich), Clara, ; Creator: שייוועלסאָן, קלארא; Recipient: Women's City Committee Builders; Organization: New York Jewish City Committee.
        4. Alez Szalat's Clara Lemlich: A Strike Leader's Diary goes beyond the history of Clara Lemlich Shavelson's early activism into contemporary.

          5. Clara Lemlich was born on March 28 , in Horodok, Ukraine.!

          Clara Lemlich

          Ukrainian-born Jewish American labor organizer (1886-1982)

          Clara Lemlich Shavelson

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          1910

          Born

          Clara Lemlich


          March 28, 1886

          Horodok, Russian Empire

          DiedJuly 12, 1982(1982-07-12) (aged 96)

          Los Angeles, California, United States

          Occupation(s)Union organizer, suffragist, activist
          Known forLeader of the Uprising of the 20,000
          Political partyCommunist USA
          Spouse(s)

          Joe Shavelson

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          (m. 1913; died 1951)​

          Abe Goldman (1960–1967)
          ChildrenIrving, Martha, and Rita

          Clara Lemlich Shavelson (March 28, 1886 – July 12, 1982) was a leader of the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York'sgarment industry in 1909, where she spoke in Yiddish and called for action.[1] Later blacklisted from the industry for her labor union work, she became a member of the Communist Party USA and a consumer activist.

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