Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Clara Lemlich" in English language version.
Lemlich, executive board member of Local 25, sparked the 1909 walkout of shirtwaist makers with her call for a strike.
Clara Lemlich was born in 1886 in Gorodok, Ukraine, to deeply religious parents.
By the time the Kishinev pogrom of 1903 convinced her parents to immigrate to the United States, seventeen-year-old Clara was a committed revolutionary.
Thus, in Yiddish, 23-year-old Clara Lemlich addressed a crowd of thousands of restless laborers at New York City's Cooper Union on November 22, 1909.
Appalled by these circumstances, Lemlich joined the executive board of a local chapter of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), a relatively new organization gaining momentum in the fight for workers' rights.
Appalled by these circumstances, Lemlich joined the executive board of a local chapter of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), a relatively new organization gaining momentum in the fight for workers' rights.
