Local 66

Includes: Murray Gross, Manager of Local 66 and national chairman of the American Veterans Committee with other American Veterans Committee members discusses upcoming Congressional Legislation with President Kennedy, 7/15/62; UN Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson is presented with the first Dag Hammerskjold Memorial Award of the American Veterans Committee by Murray Gross, national chairman of the organization and Manager of Local 66, 5/1/62; Auditorium of people, no date; During exhibition of painting by members of NY Local 66, Jasper Peyton, who is chairman of organization's civil rights unit, discusses his "still life" with Local Manager Murray Gross, no date; Murray Gross, Manager of New York Embroidery Workers Local 66, with members of the United Labor Congress in Lagos, Nigeria, with Maida Springer, at AFL-CIO Department of International Affairs, 5/1/65; In a moving ceremony labor columnist Victor Riesel thanks NY Local 66 Executive Board members for honoring him and his father, Nathan Riesel a founder of the Embroidery Workers' Local, with his wife, Max Silverberg - Chairman of Local, VP Murray Gross - Local manager, and attorney Robert Markewich, 12/1/66; Among the graduates if recent Local 66 Leadership Training Institute receiving diplomas from VP Murray Gross, Local manager, and Jasper Peyton, Educational Director, are Susie Romer, Georgina Buitrago, Maria Louisa Rivera, Rebecca Fleiss, Nancy Mazzola, Clavon Overstreet, Hilda Camacho, Josefina Valentin, and Blanche Tobias, 5/15/66; Weekly Local 66 art class conducted by Jasper Peyton, Local Education Director and Board member of International Friends Art Guild of Greater New York, with Jennie Horowitz, Marisa Kuriata and Katie Jenks, 3/1/66; VP Murray Gross, New York Local 66 manager, at start of contract renewal negotiations with employer representatives, no date; Members of NY Local 66 where paintings were among 10 prizewinning canvases selected by a panel of judges at the Local 66 Art Show: Annis Bare lift, Lucy Gonzalez, Shirley Goldman, Caroline Behrens, 4/1/67; Members of New York Local 66 employed at Metropolis Button Works eagerly reach for applications for the local's blood bank, with Annunciata Marshall - shop steward, Eleanor Davis, Jasper Peyton - Local Education Director, Mattie White, Juanita Cerezo, Virginia Wilson, Mary Harris, Marie-Therese Chassagne, Therese Sojous, Denise Krause, Myrtle Steward, Sallie Anderson, Olympia Soloman, Bessie Fluellen and Afrodizia Figueroa, 9/15/67; President Louis Stulberg congratulates William Schwartz on his election as new manager of Local 66, succeeding VP Murray Gross, who returned to Dress Joint Council as Associate General Manager, with Roman Bielen, Local Chairman, who presided at Executive Board meeting on 9/26/69; Bwy Local 66 class at High School of Fashion Institute in new York with Gloria Maldonado, Local 66 Education Director who will teach another session of class at local office, Manager William Schwartz, and Mike Malone - Board of Education instructor and Local 66 member, 3/15/71; Local 66 members jammed Hotel New Yorker ballroom to overflowing to hear Manager William Schwartz, with Frank Pantano, local assistant manager, no date; Members of Local 66 learn to improve their skills at machines installed in a classroom at the local's headquarters, with Manager William Schwartz at the Embroidery Workers Local and Education Director Gloria Maldonado, 10/1/73