Funeral services were held last Friday for Louis Hollander, a national labor leader for more than 60 years, and a founder of ORT in the United States, who died last Thursday in the Workmen’s Circle Home for the Aged in the Bronx at 87. From 1932 to 1976, he was a vice-president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, which he helped to found in 1914. He was New York State president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1943 until its merger with the state American Federation of Labor in the late 1950s.
Hollander was a founder of ORT in the United States and a founder of the American Labor ORT in 1938. He helped found the American Labor Party and was elected a City Councilman from Brooklyn on that ticket. He was a union organizer and leader in the United States and Canada.
Born in Wadowice, in what was then known as Russian Poland, he came to New York with his family when he was 10 years old. At 19, he began organizing for the United Brotherhood of Tailors and getting his high school diploma at night while working 12-hour days.
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