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Omaha Steve

(99,506 posts) Fri Oct 9, 2015, 10:09 PM Oct 2015

10-9-15 The United Hebrew Trades is Founded in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/october-9-the-united-hebrew-trades-is-founded/

October 9, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1888. That was the day that the United Hebrew Trades was founded in New York City. The new effort was patterned after the United German Trades. The goal was to organize Yiddish speaking workers.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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10-9-15 The United Hebrew Trades is Founded in 2:00 (Original Post) Omaha Steve Oct 2015 OP

1888 Chicago Jewish Americans did organize. DhhD Oct 2015 #1

DhhD

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1. 1888 Chicago Jewish Americans did organize.

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Fri Oct 9, 2015, 10:42 PM

Oct 2015

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Chicago.html

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Jews were among Chicago's earliest settlers. In 1832, a year before the little settlement was officially incorporated as a "town," Morris Baumgarten resided there. In 1834 Aaron Friend and Isaac Hays advertised in the Chicago Democrat concerning unclaimed mail, and Peter Cohen advertised "a large and splendid assortment of winter clothing" as well as a "fresh supply of provisions, groceries, and liquors" for sale in his store. In 1836 the "Jewish Peddler," J. Gottlieb, made his mark on the growing western town. In 1837 Chicago, with 5,000 inhabitants, was incorporated as a city; between 1840 and 1844 about 20 Jews settled in the city, most of them immigrants from Bavaria and the Rhenish Palatinate in Germany.

more at link

http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/laborpress/Kelling.htm
provides a world of news about the labor forces of 1800s Chicago.

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