Impartial Chairman, Decisions. Coat and Suit Industry.
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Scope and Contents
Important disputes in the garment industry were submitted to a permanent Board of Arbitration who would hand down final decisions. On January 24, 1914, the Board of Arbitration created a Committee on Immediate Action that consisted of chief clerks as well as an Impartial Chairman, whose job was to arbitrate all disputes that the clerks were unable to settle and supervise labor conditions. This collection contains the decisions of the Impartial Chairman of the Coat and Suit Industry in New York City. The collection consists of the bound summaries of decisions and complaints that came before the Impartial Chairman and include the case name, brief descriptions, and the board decision. The cases are individually numbered and arranged by year beginning in 1924 and ending in 1962. Also included is a complete transcript of a hearing. The bound decisions in the later years are particularly helpful as they contain an index for the cases according to subject. Through the years there were a number of Impartial Chairmen who are identified on the cases and include (along with the dates of their decisions in the collection): Raymond V. Ingersoll (1924-1931), George W. Alger (1932-1935), Sol A. Rosenblatt (1931-1962), James J. Walker (1940-1945), Harry L. Hopkins (1945-1946), and Charles Poletti (1946).
Dates
- 1924-1962
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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
Founded in 1900 by local union delegates representing about 2,000 members in cities in the northeastern United States, the ILGWU grew in geographical scope, membership size, political influence to become one of the most powerful forces in American organized labor by mid-century. Representing workers in the women's garment industry, the ILGWU worked to improve working and living conditions of its members through collective bargaining agreements, training programs, health care facilities, cooperative housing, educational opportunities, and other efforts. In 1995, the ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE).
Extent
4 cubic feet
Abstract
This collection consists of decisions by the Impartial Chairman of the Coat and Suit Industry from 1924 to 1962, as well as some transcripts, memoranda, and other files related to hearings before the chairman.
Quantity:
4 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Articles, reprints, pamphlets, correspondence, photographs.
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
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, August 30, 2011
- EAD encoding:
- Kathryn Dowgiewicz, January 10, 2013
- Title
- Impartial Chairman, Decisions. Coat and Suit Industry.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- January 10, 2013
- 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