Midwest Region

Includes: Bialis, Harold Schwartz and Mayor Richard Daley, 12/15/64; Mabel Terry and Leona Siman picket in front of More Manufacturing Company in Marissa, IL, 12/1/65; Local 436 of DeKalb, IL celebrates 20th Anniversary with Myrael Smith charter member, Harry Rufer general organizer, Edna Letheby local Vice President, Harold Schwartz Assistant Director of Midwest Region, Frances Kates local Financial Secretary, Michael Cannell Secretary of Fox Valley District Council, Gladys Steward local recording secretary, Minnie Lane - charter member, Charles Stark former President of Fox Valley Council, Stanley Hegland - President of Local, and Bob Dale, 5/15/66; Members of locals from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin attend Midwest Region Institute at University of Wisconsin in Madison, 8/15/66; Illinois Democratic Senator Paul H. Douglas is greeted by Morris Bialis, 10/15/66; Local 529 ladies hold signs in favor of Senator Paul Douglas, Nelida Justiana, Doris Valesquez, Cleo Koley, Pat Weeks, Joan Freides, Mary Lee Gordon, Letty Cobb, Virgie Hood, Elaine Staffeldt, Ilona Schroarer, Velma Gabon, Beulah Lawther, Mary Bolton, Evalyn Talbot, 10/15/66; Mr. And Mrs. Bialis at a celebration of their 50th Wedding Anniversary, 2/1/68; Morris Bialis welcomes Cesar Chavez, United Farm Workers director at a luncheon, 12/1/69; Alvin Cloud, Della Lowe - Local 553 President, Lyle Greendeer - Committee member, Walter C. Kohlhoff committee chairman, ILGWU representatives and Donald Kret ILGWU Organizer, 7/1/70; Chicago Mayor Richard Daley greets Vice president Morris Bialis and William Lee, President of Chicago Federation of Labor at McCormick Place, 3/3/71; Morris Bialis, surrounded by Rolf A. Weil, President of Roosevelt University and Jerome Stone, chairman of the Board of Trustees is presented with honorary trustee status, 9/15/73; ILGWU members attend ILGWU School for workers at University of Illinois, 9/1/75; President Sol Chaikin receives plaque from Abe Rufus, President of Decatur, IL Local 120, 10/1/75; Vice President Morris Bialis speaks with Bernice Perry of AFL-CIO Community Services Department and Lou Montenegro Midwest Region Director at the labor conference on Civil Rights in Chicago, 1/1/79; Midwest Region Director Lou Montenegro makes a point to representatives of Smoler Brothers, also included is Vice President Nicholas Bonanno and Maurice Rosenstadt of Smoler Brothers, 6/79; Vice President Morris Bialis greets Adlai E. Stevenson III at meeting of Chicago Federation of Labor, no date; Executive Vice President Fredrick Siems, Vice President Lou Montenegro and staffers of the Midwest Region discuss contract negotiations, 4/82; Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne receives a plaque from Lou Montenegro and sews a union label on a jacket as she becomes an honorary member, 2/83; Oscar Sanchez is introduced as new Midwest organizing director at a staff meeting included are General Secretary-Treasurer Jay Mazur, Lou Montenegro and Sanchez, 10/83