HOTEL & RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES & BARTENDERS

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HOTEL & RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES & BARTENDERS. HERE was formed as the "Waiters and Bartenders National Union" in 1891 as an AFL (American Federation of Labor) affiliated union.

In 1918, the union experienced its highest membership (65,938 members). PROHIBITION, which unemployed a larger section of its membership who worked in bars, and the First Red Scare took a heavy toll on the organization, which fell in membership to 37,743 in 1923. The union struggled to survive the loss and managed to recover soon after Prohibition was overturned in 1933.

At the same time, the GREAT DEPRESSION forced HERE to contend with more militant alternatives, mainly the Food Workers United, leading HERE to emerge as an industrial union. In the years following the Depression and WORLD WAR II HERE continued to grow and remained an industrial union. In 1947, after a contentious election, Hugo Ernst emerged as the definitive leader of the organization. HERE largely embraced the New Deal policies of the time and began making advancements in the use of education and research by the union to improve their efforts.

HERE later merged with UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees)in 2004 to form UNITE-HERE.

The 1968 and 1970 Dubuque City Directory listed 113 W. 11th.

The 1972 Dubuque City Directory listed 800 Main.

The 1974 through 1983 Dubuque City Directory listed 799 Main.

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