I extend to my friends in the ILGWU the wish that they have the benefit of Louis Stulbergs excellent leadership for many years to come. At this point. I include Louis Stulbergs profile in the RECORD: PROFILE: Louis STULBERG "Give me your tired. your poor. your huddled masses yearning to be free." begins the Emma Lazarus poem on the Statue of Libertyand never did the mounting tide of earlier immigrants give more of them than they gave to the ILGWU. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union has consistently been an organization comprised largely of ethnic minorities: first the Germans and Irish. then the Jews. then the Italians. and of latethe Puerto Ricans and the Blacks. Its still a melting pot in which bubble the ambitions. the hopes and the destinies of some 450.000 workers plying their trades in 38 States. 5 Canadian provinces and Puerto Rico.
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