TARGETED for DEPORTATION.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Mayer, Heather
- Source
- Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History. Summer2016, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p22-27. 6p. 8 Black and White Photographs.
- Subject
- *TAILORS
*STRIKES & lockouts -- Clothing trade
*LABOR unions
*HISTORY
- Language
- ISSN
- 0892-3094
The article profiles American immigrant labor radicals Rebecca Beck and Jack Solomon, highlighting the 1912 Seattle Tailors' Strike in Washington. Beck's and Solomon's legal battles reportedly illustrate the use of morality laws to target radicals especially newer immigrants to the U.S. Topics include their family background and the tailors strikes organized by labor unions Industrial Workers of the World and American Federation of Labor.