May 3-5, 1927 - Discussion re stoppages in Rochester; piece work an issue; industrial situation in most areas very poor; Baltimore-Sonneborn many problems - "will probably go out of business"; reports on banks and Investors Corporation; discussion re possibility of merging the Amalgamated's Italian newspaper with Il Nuovo Mondo because of Nuovo Mondo's financial situation; Los Angeles - Mexican women being taught all operations in the shops - need for organizing

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.