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Local 22

 File — Box: 18, Folder: 10

Scope and Contents

Includes: VP Israel Breslow, Manager of Dressmakers Local 22, takes vote at membership meeting changing basis of Local's jurisdiction from craft to geographical lines, 2/4/75; President Louis Stulberg addresses local 22 meeting which approved resolutions making '22' the Local for all dressmakers in Manhattan, with '22' chairman Sam Greenburg and VP Israel Breslow, manager, 2/4/75; President-Elect Sol C. Chaikin outlined challenges facing the union at a Local 22 membership meeting, with Sam Nemaizer - Assistant General Manager, and VP Murray Gross - General manager of the New York Dress Joint Board, '22' Education Director Manny Gonzalez, Sam Greenberg - Local Chairman, VP Israel Breslow - Manager of the Dressmakers Local, Sol Lipnack - Assistant Manager, and Sam Byer - Joint Board Secretary-Treasurer, 6/24/75; Some 70 members and officers of New York Dress Local 22 turned out at '22' headquarters to donate blood for the ILG Family Blood Bank Program, also participating were members of Local 66, 9/29/75; VP Israel Breslow, who is retiring as Manager of Local 22 administers oath of office to Manuel Gonzalez, with Sam Nemaizer - Assistant General Manager of the New York Dress Joint Board, Sam Byer - Joint Board Secretary/Treasurer, Charles Zimmerman - former Joint Board Manager (and former Local 22 Manager), Murray Gross, Dress General manager, Sam Greenberg '22' Chairman, Sol Lipnack - '22' Assistant Manager, and Cornelia Parks, '22' Vice Chairlady, 9/10/75; VP Israel Breslow tells guests at dinner marking his retirement as Manager of Local 22 that his 53-year career included three great "love affairs" - freedom in the US, the labor movement, and his wife - with President Sol C. Chaikin and the new '22' Manager Manuel Gonzalez and former Dress Joint Board General Manager Charles Zimmerman, who also presents Local 22 Manager Manuel Gonzalez with $100 check representing contributions of workers at Eaves Costume to victims of Italian earthquake, with Business Agent Frank Zweiback and Jack Hochman, Manager of the Dress Miscellaneous Department, 9/1/76; Local 22 Manager Manuel Gonzalez speaking after being elected to first full term at a meeting of dressmakers, 1/5/7? (77?) (74?); Retired Local 22 Business Agent Joseph Blackman was honored with a special award presented to him by the Black Trade Unionists Leadership committee at the annual dinner-dance of the BTULC at the New York Hilton Hotel, with Frederick O'Neal, BTULC Second Vice President and John Burnell, Director of the New York City Office of Labor Relations, 6/4/77; Min Whing Kuo, a member of New York Local 22, received a check for $2,379 after an investigation by the ILGWU Auditing Department and Local 22 showed that her employer, Target Dressing Fashions, failed to pay her contract minimums, with VP Manuel Gonzalez, Local Manager, and James McMikel, as Kuo's daughter looked on, May 1981

Dates

  • 1900-1991

Language of Materials

Collection material in English, Yiddish

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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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