DER BUTSHER ARBETER. THE BUTCHER WORKER. VOL II COMPLETE (MAY 1938 - APRIL 1939) [11 ISSUES BOUND TOGETHER] ??? ?????? ??????? Hebrew Butcher Workers Union Local 234 (New York, NY) Americana,Jewish Labor Movement,Periodicals,The Holocaust,Yiddish

; First edition. 11 Holocaust-era magazine issues in red hardcover faux-leather binding. 4to, issues range in lenght from 32-104 each (about 650 pages total). Includes illustrations and photographs. 30 cm. In Yiddish and English. The Butcher Worker was a magazine published by and primarily interested in the activities of the Hebrew Butcher Workers Union Local 234 in New York City. Contains issues from the years 1938-1939 including the 30th Anniversary Jubilee book which contains articles, advertisements, a history of the union, and other features that were offered to attendees of the jubilee. A rich piece of Jewish labor history. "As the era of Jewish mass migration to the United States concluded, the convergence of organized crime and kosher foods became less of a pressing issue for American Jews. A slew of immigration restriction acts passed by Congress during the early 1920s greatly diminished the number of new Jewish arrivals. Concurrently, New York Jews by and large ascended out of the immigrant working class and its menial and low-paying jobs, including the grueling tasks involved in providing the city with kosher food products. Prohibition opened up a highly lucrative field for Jewish gangsters who swapped industrial strong-arm work for bootlegging. Moreover, as in the needle trades, the fault lines of conflict in the industry decreasingly pitted employers against workers, or small craftsmen against large companies, and increasingly meant socialist and communist partisans battling each other for supremacy in the labor movement. In September 1928, for example, a brawl between left and right wings of the Butcher Clerks' Union in the Bronx led to the death of worker Harry Silver. But even with these instances of bloodshed, New York Jews in general steered their attention and collective efforts away from the issues arising from chaotic industrial conditions, the exploitation of workers, and the power of organized crime and far more towards the problem of kosher religious certification" (Aaron Welt, Butchers, Bakers, and Jewish Strong-Arm Men: Organized Crime in the Kosher Food Trades During the Age of Mass Jewish Migration, 1900-1917). SUBJECT(S): Labor unions -- New York (State) -- New York -- Butchers -- Periodicals. Butchers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Periodicals. Jewish labor unions -- New York (State) -- New York -- Periodicals. Jewish labor unions. OCLC: 970888889. OCLC locates only 4 holdings of this periodical (YIVO, US Dept of Labor, Harvard, and NYPL) In excellent condition. Clean, sturdy, and vibrant copy. About Very Good Condition. Scarce (YID-48-72).