United Hebrew Trades Minutes on Microfilm
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Abstract
Microfilmed copy of United Hebrew Trades Minutes - January 8, 1901
Dates
- 1901
Language of Materials
Collection material in Yiddish
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
On October 9 in 1888 the United Hebrew Trades organization was born to serve as a catalyst that would nurture the growth of the new new-born labor movement. Among its leading members were Bernard Weinstein, Morris Hilquit and Abe Cahan of "the Jewish Daily Forward". The Hebrew Actors' Union was among the unions represented at the first meeting. The union membership of the United Hebrew Trades at the time of its formation numbered a grand total of 70. Undaunted, the organization began its work. Their message to every-day bread and butter concerns of the ordinary worker. They built from the bottom up, not from the top down. Mass propaganda was one of their effective weapons. Among their 'revolutionary' departures was to talk to the Jewish worker in his own language.
Extent
0.22 cubic feet
Quantity:
2 microfilm reels
Forms of Material:
Minutes (administrative records), microfilm .
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, August 22, 2014
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, April 17, 2019
- Title
- United Hebrew Trades Minutes on Microfilm
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- April 17, 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853