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Please join us for the regular monthly meeting of the Southern Maine Labor Council, AFL-CIO. Meetings are held the first Wednesday of every month and always end promptly at 8:00pm. Jack Amrock and Matt Beck are current delegates to the council, but all IBEW 1837 members are invited and encouraged to attend. Please note that it can be a little tricky to find the Teamsters Hall the first time around.

THIS MONTH:

6:00PM Executive Board Meeting
6:30PM Regular Meeting
7:30PM Film: "Clara Lemlich: A Strike Leader's Diary"

This documentary film lasts just under an hour and will be followed by a discussion facilitated by Peter Kellman, President of the Southern Maine Labor Council. Th film is part of the Maine Jewish Film Series.

Lemlich's success as a union organizer, which included numerous arrests and beatings by strikebreakers, eventually led to her election to the executive board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Her story is movingly recounted through interviews with her daugher and grandchildre, dramatic readings from her diary, family photos and archival footage, strike songs in Yiddish, an interview with labor historian Alice kessler-Harris, a visit to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and excertps from silent films of the era.