Bookbinders Found the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders

5/5/1892
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Constitution of the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders
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On May 5, 1892 bookbinders founded the first American bookbinders union, the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders, in Philadelphia.

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