In this colorful and fascinating autobiography, David Dubinsky, President of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union for thirty-four years, and A. H. Raskin, former chief labor correspondent for The New York Times, have written of one man's struggle against oppression of the garment industry's sweatshops of the 1920s and the emergence of labor as a real social and political force. Includes an Index.

(Key Words: David Dubinsky, Labor, Garment Industry, Unions, Clothing Workers, Trade Unions, Charles H. Zimmerman, World War II, Harry S Truman, Socialist Party, Benjamin Schlesinger, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Poland, George Meany, Fiorello H. La Guardia, International Ladies Garment Workerrs Union, A.F.L., I.L.G.W.U., William Green, Dwight David Eisenhower, Thomas E. Dewey, Congress of Industrial Organizations, C.I.O., Louis D. Brandeis, Lyndon Johnson, World War Two).