Garment workers rehearse a chorus for ILGWU's own theater, Labor Stage
Caption Reads: Garment workers of 1938, no longer sodden machine-serfs, link their past and their present in this picture as they rehearse a chorus in the I.L.G.W.U.'s own theater, Labor Stage, before a photo-mural depicting the hero-leaders of union history. I.L.G.W.U.'s extracurricular program got national attention last winter when its still current revue Pins and Needles, performed entirely by members, became a major hit of the Broadway season. A good-natured satire on capitalism, the show has netted a neat capitalistic profit of $35,000.
Photograph by Hansel Mieth in "ILGWU: A Great and Good Union Points the Way for America's Labor Movement," LIFE Magazine, August 1, 1938, 45.
Photograph by Hansel Mieth in "ILGWU: A Great and Good Union Points the Way for America's Labor Movement," LIFE Magazine, August 1, 1938, 45.
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The Picture Collection Inc.
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The Picture Collection Inc.
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Description:
A black and white photograph of Garment workers rehearsing a chorus for ILGWU's own theater, Labor Stage.
Date / time:
August 1, 1938
Extent number:
1
Extent type:
(pages)
Publisher:
LIFE Magazine
Pages:
45
Publication:
LIFE Magazine
Date published:
August 1, 1938