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Eastern Region

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 3

Scope and Contents

Includes: Joint negotiating teams from Maiden form Brassiere Co. discuss terms of renewal pact, includes Leon Milman - manager of Plainfield Local 149, VP Edward Kramer - Eastern Region general manager Peter Capitano, 3/31/60; Ed Banyai, manager at Suffolk County Local 107, examines targets for organizing drive on Long Island with VP Edward Kramer, general manager of Eastern Region, 10/15/61; Members of Local 222 protest the runaway attempt of Newark (NJ) Knitgoods from Madison St. - outside theater of Broadway hit "Come Blow Your Horn,: whose star is Hal March, President and treasurer of company, New York, 7/1/61; Member Local 220-251 with Sadie Reich - Manager , and Civil Rights Petition Committee collected 2325 signatures, Newark, 10/15/63; Connie Woodruff, attending the ILGWU Training Institute, hands out leaflets ("Don't buy Rhoda Lee") to shoppers - she was a former secretary to Pete Detlefsen at Local 144, New York; Herald Square 3/15/63; Three women talking, no date; Sol Goldberg no date; Eastern Region strike outside Dale Dress, Long Island, NY, 3/1/65; Tabulating votes cast by members for candidates running for local posts, 3/15/65; Final tally of ballots, supervised by VP Edward Kramer - election committee chairman with observers from both slates, 3/15/65; Workers of the Lewel Manufacturing Co. were given turkeys at a special meeting to discuss tactics with General Organizer Walter DeYoung and Lou Gargallo - staff members at Local 166, 12/1/65; Local 166 ILGWU on strike from Lewella MFG Co., 11/10/66; Eastern Region Locals 148-162 picket at Sears Fashion Distribution Center, North Bergen, NJ, 3/1/67; Newly-appointed Eastern Region Field Supervisor Arthur Skolnick and Raymond Bramucci -recently elected mayor of Union City, New Jersey Locals 148-162, are congratulated by VP Edward Kramer - general manager of the region, with Joseph McGlone, and Marion Badolato, Locals 148-164 president and recording secretary, respectively, 10/15/67; Eastern Region negotiators headed by VP Edward Kramer hammered out terms for workers at Lily of France with Jules Sippen Local 156 manager, Sol Goldberg - region assistant general manager members of the shop committee and employer representatives, 2/1/68; Union staffers Juan Muniz, Hugh Harris, Monserrate Lapen, Marlerne McQueen and Virgil Bavarro distribute clothing and food to fire victims, 5/15/88; ILGWU member Marie Miller, Berenice Vauters, and her mother Ruby Thompson, select clothing for their children at Union's Fire Emergency Distribution Center, 5/15/68; Rosalind Bowers, who received vitally needed clothing and other items, thanks ILGWU representatives Hugh Harris - assistant manager of Locals 220 - 251, Connie Woodruff - CRD director, Virgil Bavarro - assistant manager Local s 144-166- 222; VP Hubert Humphrey with Governor Richard Hughes, VP Edward Kramer manager of the Eastern Region, and Connie Woodruff - director of Eastern Region's Community Relations Department, Newark, 9/1/68; Abe Ribicoff and Edward Kramer, 10/15/68; Governor Meyner, 10/15/69

Dates

  • 1900-1991

Language of Materials

Collection material in English, Yiddish

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

12 cubic feet

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

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