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| National Union of Tailor and Garment Workers | the family breadwinner, starting work in a Leeds clothing factory for 3d an hour. In 1915, aged 21, she became a full-time organiser for the National Union of Tailor and Garment Workers (NUTGW) – the union to which she was to devote her whole career. The following year she took charge of a strike of 6000 clothing workers in Hebden Bridge. She showed a talent for journalism, and a |