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Drive of Dressmakers Against Fascism Progresses

October 5, 1934
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The anti-Fascist campaign of the New York Joint Board of Dressmakers’ Union, I. L. G. W. U., initiated more than a week ago, is making rapid progress, campaign headquarters announced yesterday. In order to achieve its goal, raising $25,000 as part of an international anti-Fascist fund to aid the underground labor movements in Germany, Austria and Italy, the Joint Board has begun an agitational drive among the 80,000 dressmakers in the city.

The union hopes to arouse the dressmakers against the menace of Fascism.

Thousands of leaflets have been issued in English, Yiddish, Italian and Spanish.

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