Garment Workers: “Welfare Unionism”

MARK STARR, who first worked in the coal mines in England, came to the United States in 1928 to teach British Labor History. He has been director of the Educational Department of I.L.G.W.U. since 1935. He served as a labor consultant for the O.W.I. during World War II, for American Military Government in Japan in 1946, and as a member of President Truman’s Commission on Higher Education, 1946-1947. He is the author of numerous articles, pamphlets and books on labor and education.