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Local 105 [folder 1 of 7]

 File — Box: 22, Folder: 12

Scope and Contents

includes: Banquet photos, Louis Stulberg speaking, Antonini and Local 105 Manager Martin Cohen on dais; Manager Martin Cohen presenting a check for $1000 for New York Cardiac Home to Samuel Le Savoy, President of the NY Cardiac Home, and Harry Hershfield looking on; Local 105 and the Employer Association giving aid to Refugees: George Karp, Sidney Cohen and Martin Cohen welcoming refugees, June 30, 1951; Local 105 outing at Unity House, June, 1953; Local 105 New Years Party, Hotel New Yorker, Martin Cohen and wife, and members; Local 105 13th Anniversary Dance - Joseph Freno, Martin Cohen, and Phil Kramer, Boston, Mass.; Official opening of Local 105 new Headquarters - William Peer, Martin Cohen, Burton Turkus; Martin Cohen and Employer Samuel Zemensky of Brookshire Sportswear Inc. distribute vacation checks to members, June 8, 1954; Navy annual dance with Local 105 gals, February 19, 1955; Receiving docks for American Israeli Supply Mission - Martin Cohen and others standing in front of large boxes of Women's Khaki Shirts ready to be shipped; David Dubinsky Speech; Members asking Manager Martin Cohen and Bernie Leiderman after a membership meeting where Cohen described their new contract, April 3, 1956; Agreement signing; Local 105 Parade float; Convention scene; Local 105 marching toward Atlantic City convention; Audience shot; District Attorney Frank Hogan with twin girls of Veronica Burich, shop chairlady and sewing machine operator, member of Local 105; Rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC; young boy handing out shopping bags picketing Judy Blouses; women preparing to hand out anti - Judy Bond Blouses bags and leaflets; Demonstration with placards against Judy Bond Blouses; Group photo of George Meany with lots of children; Shop scene - women at sewing machines with observers; Picket with placards to "End Segregation in Southern Howard Johnsons"; Picket in front of Horn and Hardart before representation election; Local 105 marching in a parade; Member of Local 519, Brunswick, Georgia in Jacksonville, Florida combining a Union Label Campaign and an anti-Judy Bond campaign; Anzio Frocks striker - demonstration with place card; Local 105 marching for "Full Equality and Human Dignity for All Americans NOW", demonstration with placards; Picket against Woolworths and their discrimination practices in the South; Local 22 members on White House (Washington DC) Lawn; Individual Photo of Herbert Lehman; Photo of award received by Martin Cohen from The Continental Society for Children of the Virgin Islands, Inc. - 1950 Award for his contribution to the Welfare of Underprivileged Children of the Virgin Islands and of New York City; Political press conferences; Martin Cohen with a child with Muscular Dystrophy; David Dubinsky signing an agreement; Robert F. Kennedy at Convention; Picket in front of Bloomingdale's

Dates

  • 1835-1992

Language of Materials

Collection material in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Yiddish, Chinese

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

73.14 cubic feet

Repository Details

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

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