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Abraham Chaim Miller (1887-1963) was an American labor leader. He was a founding officer of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and served as a Vice President and as the Secretary-Treasurer of that organization’s New York Joint Board.

In 1923, Miller served as one of the principal organizers of the Amalgamated Bank of New York.

Along with Frank Crosswaith, A. Philip Randolph and other leaders of the New York area labor movement, Miller was a founding member of the Negro Labor Committee in 1935.

Born in Dubiecko, Austria-Hungary (present day Poland) Miller married Molly (Malka) Bakon. They had three children: Moses Aaron Miller (1912-2003), Ruth Miller (1915-2005), herself a leader of the Amalgamated and activist in the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) and Nathan Miller (1917-2019) a Professor of American economic history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.