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Isidore Nagler, Jewish Labor Leader, Dies in New York; Funeral Today

September 23, 1959
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Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Isidore Nagler, a vice president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union for 30 years who was actively identified with many Jewish causes. He died yesterday at the age of 64.

Born in Austria, he came to New York in 1909. Among many labor, civic, philanthropic and Jewish positions during his career, he was secretary of the Jewish Labor Committee and chairman of the Federation for Labor Israel.

At his death Mr. Nagler was a vice-president of the New York State Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. Last year he was a labor adviser to the United States delegation to the International Labor Organization conference in Geneva. In 1938, he had been American Labor party candidate for Congress.

He led the cloak makers through the hard days of the Depression. It was during this period that they won a 35-hour work week and stronger impartial machinery for settlement of disputes.

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