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Strikes - New York Dressmakers, 1958 - selected [folder 1 of 3], 1958

 File — Box: 36, Folder: 8

Scope and Contents

Includes: picketers; Local 10 members picket; Dress Shipping Clerks strike with the Dressmakers; Zimmerman stands around car with strike billboard on its roof; the Dress Shipping Clerks picket; Local 148 members strike Jerry Gilden Specialties, Inc.; Hochman, David Dubinsky, Sen. Robert F. Wagner, Uviller, Herbert Lehman, and Louis Rubin hold the contract to end the strike; a series of cars with bullhorns and billboards on top of their cars; Hochman and David Dubinsky wave to a large crowd, Scranton, PA; Zimmerman with strikers with placards; Dress Shipping Clerks with placards; women in meeting with strike placards; strikers with leaflets proclaiming general strike; Scranton District strikers at Old Forge Strike Rally, 3/5/58, Old Forge, Pennsylvania

Dates

  • 1958

Language of Materials

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

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

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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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