 However, Sclare's ambition to open branches of the union in other cities proved unsuccessful.Instead, in 1915 he took it into a merger which formed the United Garment Workers' Trade Union (UTGWU).Sclare was a member of Poale Zion, and his motions in support of political and civil rights for Jewish people were passed by the Trades Union Congress in 1915 and 1916.