If you want to dance but don't know how; if you dance on everybody else's feet but your own; if you yearn for the happy social contacts possible only on the dance floor -- just join one of the Union's classes in Social or Ballroom Dancing. There are two classes every Tuesday at the Donovan Dancing Academy, 308 West 59th Street, at 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. Mollie Herman, a graduate of the Savage School of Physical Training, is an instructor. Picture shows one of the first classes learning the simple technique of keeping time to the music. Register for the classes at the Union offices.
-- Justice (ILGWU), March 15, 1935.
Click this link for more information on the Social Unionism promoted by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Photo courtesy of Kheel Center, Cornell University. With thanks to Katy Dowgiewicz and Sam McLemore.
"Architects of social unionism saw the union as a mechanism to bring workers, families, and working-class communities into the labor movement through cultural as well as political activism."
All together different : Yiddish Socialists, garment workers, and the Labor roots of multiculturalism by Daniel Katz, 2011.
