• Rose Schneiderman (1882-1972) and Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca (1894-1946), clothing trade organizers. Both were daughters of eastern European Jewish tailors who came to the U.S. As child laborers themselves, they well knew the deplorable conditions they fought all their lives. Bellanca pioneered women's membership in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. A specialist in immigrants' problems, she was described as ''loved by the strikers, admired by neighbors, and feared by the police." Like Schneiderman, she served in several important government positions on behalf of women and children. Schneiderman was active in the Women's Trade Union League throughout its 40 years and was president of the N. Y. League most of that time. Early fame came with her memorial speech following the Triangle factory fire in 1911. During the New Deal era, she was on the Labor Board of the National Recovery Act.
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Rose Schneiderman and Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca postcard

From Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press by Julia M. Allen and Jocelyn H. Cohen

  • Part of the Bread & Roses series, Women in the American Labor Movement, set of 9 postcards. Second printing, printed offset in sepia with blue border and copper accent,3 ½” x 5½”, with a special Bread & Roses emblem created as part of the design. Although Nancy and Jocelyn preferred the large jumbo size postcards, postcard collectors generally only purchased the traditional “standard size” of 3 ½” x 5½” and, with this set, they hoped to pick up notice and recognition by the deltiology world.
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