Garment workers lobbyist Dubrow dies
\nOttawa Recorder, Canada
\nStaff and agencies
\n21 June, 2014<\/p>\n
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47 minutes ago
\nWASHINGTON – Evelyn Dubrow, an advocate for labor rights and women\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs rights for more than half a century, died Tuesday night. She was 95.<\/p>\n
Dubrow started working on Capitol Hill in the mid-1950s. Over the course of nine presidential administrations, she lobbied for the International Ladies\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc Garment Workers Union and its successor, UNITE-HERE. She also was a leader in the Vietnam-era campaign to lower the voting age to 18.<\/p>\n
In 1999, President Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs highest civilian honor. He called the diminutive labor lobbyist a “tiny woman … larger than life” who had been able to bring together people of opposing viewpoints.
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