Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1901 — Form Large Leather Body. [ARTICLE]

Form Large Leather Body.

Delegates from all parts of the United States and Canada, representing more than 8,000 workingmen in all branches of the leather trade, met in the Labor lyceum, Sixth and Brown Btreets, Philadelphia, and formed the Amalgamated Leather-Workers’ Association of America. This new international union will affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. Under the laws of the Federation twentysix separate unions will be compelled to Join the new association. Two unions in Chicago and several in Wisconsin and other western cities joined the organization. Officers were elected and organizers appiflnted.