February 15-20, 1917 - 48 hour work week in NYC; agreements signed; Philadelphia general strike; Montreal strike - for right of workers to organize; local established in Syracuse; "IWW organization in Baltimore... is now out of existence"; St. Louis strike; Samuel Zorn of Boston requested to rejoin ACWA; arrangements complete for publication of union paper, "Advance"; Children's Clothing locals complaints re "being ignored & neglected by present officials"; Italian members in Chicago request own local

Correspondence, clippings, minutes, organizing leaflets, photographs, speeches, phonographs, scrapbooks, and organizational records documenting the founding, growth, history and development of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; the activities of its officers and other leading officials; its organizing activities; and its administration.

Significant individuals represented in the collection include Sidney Hillman, Joseph Schlossberg, Jacob Potofsky, Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca, E.J. Brais, Bessie Hillman, and August Bellanca.

Among the topics covered in the collection are the men's garment industry in the U.S. and Canada; union organizing, collective bargaining, strikes and other labor disputes in both countries; records of local unions; working conditions in the U.S. garment industry; union management, finances, and legal matters; the New Deal, particularly Sidney Hillman's involvement in the National Recovery Administration; and economic mobilization during World War II, including Hillman's records from his service with the National Defense Advisory Commission and the War Production Board.