The Clothing Workers: A Study of the Conditions and Struggles in the Needle Trades

New York: International Publishers, 1935. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Orange cloth boards, lettered in black; dustjacket; 256pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in a very bright, crisp dustwrapper - minutely chipped along bottom edge, else close to Fine and most uncommon thus. An entirely pro-Communist account of unionization in the ILGWU and the Furrier's Union, with the expected attacks upon the "reactionary" policies of the Socialist and AFL factions. Dale Zysman is identified in Bella Todd's autobiography as a Vice-President in the Teacher's Union, widely referred to as the "Stalin of the Union" for his habit of holding his pipe at precisely the same angle as appeared in Stalin's official portraits. SEIDMAN H54.