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The manufacturer was the first of significance in the city, founded by Henry Clay Godman as Hodder and Godman Leather in 1876. It operated until 1962, only one of two local shoe manufacturers in Columbus to survive into the 1960s. [1] The company had its main factory at 347 W. Broad Street in the city's Franklinton neighborhood.
The Leather Workers' International Union of America (LWU) was a labor union representing workers in the leather industry in the United States and Canada. The union was founded on January 14, 1955, as the Leather Workers' Organizing Committee . [ 1 ]
The United Shoe and Leather Workers' Union (USLWU) was a labor union representing shoe and bootmakers in the United States. The union was founded in 1933, when the Shoe Workers' Protective Union (SWPU) merged with the National Shoe Workers' Association, the Shoe and Leather Workers' Industrial Union, and some local unions.
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The United Leather Workers' International Union (ULWIU) was a labor union representing workers involved in tanning and making leather goods in the United States and Canada. The union was founded in Indianapolis in April 1917. It brought together the International United Brotherhood of Leather Workers on Horse Goods, the Travelers' Goods and ...
In 1948, former CIO general counsel Lee Pressman joined Joseph Forer, a Washington-based attorney, in representing Irving Potash, vice president of the Fur and Leather Workers Union along with four others (Gerhard Eisler, supposedly the top Soviet agent in America; Ferdinand C. Smith, secretary of the National Maritime Union; Charles A. Doyle ...
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The International Leather Goods, Plastic and Novelty Workers' Union (ILGPNWU) was a trade union representing workers involved in making bags, belts and similar goods, in the United States and Canada. The union originated in 1915, as a local of the Travelers' Goods and Leather Novelty Workers' Union, based in New York City. In 1916, it led an ...