World Federation of Trade Unions (October l945 Paris Conference) includes Answers by Sidney Hillman to Questions of Mr. Jean Robert of La Tribune Economique; Report by the Soviet Trade Union Delegation on The Execution by the National Trade Union Centres of the Decisions of the London World Trade Union Conference; Benoit Frachon "Report of the Activities of the French CGT"; Report of the CIO Delegation to the USSR" and draft constitution.

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.