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… workers became members of the Garment Workers' Union (GWU). This trade union' was formed in the 1920s. Most of its members were white women. The GWU fought throughout the 1930s to get employers to pay the legal wage to workers. Between 1928 and 1936 the GWU was involved in over 100 strikes to force employers to …

… Vroue Federasie (SAVF) and the Garment Workers' Union (GWU), whose constituencies were middle-class and … Vroue Vereniging in Natal, to name but a few. The GWU can also used as an example because it included a … with an ideologically acceptable. At the same time, the GWU incorporated the ideal into a wider working-class …

… against capitalism not against colour". In their reply the GWU (Transvaal) explained that they had been misreported and …

… as a seamstress. She was a member of the CPSA and the GWU and was highly critical of the GWU's decision to set up a separate branch for coloured …