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International Fur & Leather Workers Union

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34: 152: 406: 283: 170:, played a role in the union from its early years. It became one of the major bases in the labor movement. Irving Howe says that the Communists used "Shock troops, a sort of paramilitary vanguard handy with knives, belts, pikes." 227:). On May 5, 1948, Pressman and Forer received a preliminary injunction so their defendants might have hearings with examiners unconnected with the investigations and prosecutions by examiners of the 216: 33: 463: 488: 239: 167: 127: 444: 483: 473: 493: 468: 347: 228: 181: 123: 199:, a Washington-based attorney, in representing Irving Potash, vice president of the Fur and Leather Workers Union along with four others ( 51: 437: 430: 160: 151: 119: 220: 296: 246: 47: 348:"Eisler, 4 Others Win New Hearings: Goldsborough Enjoins Their Deportation Pending Compliance With 1946 Law" 288: 208: 212: 224: 414: 376: 238:
tensions rising, the CIO expelled the IFLWU and 10 other unions that it accused of being "
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Founders of the International Association of Fur Workers of the United States and Canada
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Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America
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This article related to a United States labor union is a
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that represented workers in the fur and leather trades.
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The IFLWU was founded in 1913 and affiliated with the
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Index


Amalgamated Meat Cutters
United Food and Commercial Workers
New York City
United States
Ben Gold
AFL
CIO
communist ties
labor union

American Federation of Labor
Communists
Ben Gold
Congress of Industrial Organizations
John L. Lewis
Lee Pressman
Joseph Forer
Gerhard Eisler
Ferdinand C. Smith
National Maritime Union
Charles A. Doyle
Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers Union
John Williamson
Communist Party USA
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Cold War
communist dominated
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America
Ben Gold

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