Box 3
Container
Contains 46 Results:
Manheimer, Leo (Jewish Community Center of New York) 1914-15
File — Box: 3, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence primarily documenting Sidney Hillman's activities as the ACWA's first president during its formative years. Early correspondence with such figures as Joseph Schlossberg and Jacob Potofsky describes the 1914 split with the United Garment Workers, which led to the formation of the ACWA. Letters from Potofsky, E.J. Brais and Frank Rosenblum also discuss the process of industrial unionization, the amalgamation of the craft unions that had previously represented organized workers...
Dates:
1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)
Marcovitz, Leo (Local 172, Boston) 1915-23
File — Box: 3, Folder: 41
Abstract
Detailed account of labor unrest in Boston (includes descriptions of: alleged breakdown in Local 172's leadership, the vest and pant makers' strike, the workers' demand for a 48 hour workweek and a pay increase, agreements signed with various manufacturers); Rochester, NY court case involving police and violence; settlement with 5 manufacturers in Philadelphia.
Dates:
1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)
Marimpietri, A.D. (Secretary, Local 39, Chicago) 1914-25
File — Box: 3, Folder: 42
Abstract
Organizing Chicago tailors; Local 61's loss of members to a new local; English version of "our paper" to counter the myth about "the Jews getting everything"; Hillman's prediction of the New York City lockout; Hillman's discussion of the Journeymen Tailors' withdrawing from the ACWA; uniform contracts.
Dates:
1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)
Marcus, Joseph (Bank of the U.S.) 1917
File — Box: 3, Folder: 43
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence primarily documenting Sidney Hillman's activities as the ACWA's first president during its formative years. Early correspondence with such figures as Joseph Schlossberg and Jacob Potofsky describes the 1914 split with the United Garment Workers, which led to the formation of the ACWA. Letters from Potofsky, E.J. Brais and Frank Rosenblum also discuss the process of industrial unionization, the amalgamation of the craft unions that had previously represented organized workers...
Dates:
1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)
Marshall, Louis (ACWA attorney, New York City) 1919
File — Box: 3, Folder: 44
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence primarily documenting Sidney Hillman's activities as the ACWA's first president during its formative years. Early correspondence with such figures as Joseph Schlossberg and Jacob Potofsky describes the 1914 split with the United Garment Workers, which led to the formation of the ACWA. Letters from Potofsky, E.J. Brais and Frank Rosenblum also discuss the process of industrial unionization, the amalgamation of the craft unions that had previously represented organized workers...
Dates:
1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)
Matis, M., 1925
File — Box: 3, Folder: 45
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence primarily documenting Sidney Hillman's activities as the ACWA's first president during its formative years. Early correspondence with such figures as Joseph Schlossberg and Jacob Potofsky describes the 1914 split with the United Garment Workers, which led to the formation of the ACWA. Letters from Potofsky, E.J. Brais and Frank Rosenblum also discuss the process of industrial unionization, the amalgamation of the craft unions that had previously represented organized workers...
Dates:
1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)
Max Davidson and Sons (New York City) 1920
File — Box: 3, Folder: 46
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence primarily documenting Sidney Hillman's activities as the ACWA's first president during its formative years. Early correspondence with such figures as Joseph Schlossberg and Jacob Potofsky describes the 1914 split with the United Garment Workers, which led to the formation of the ACWA. Letters from Potofsky, E.J. Brais and Frank Rosenblum also discuss the process of industrial unionization, the amalgamation of the craft unions that had previously represented organized workers...
Dates:
1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)
Jacobstein, Meyer (University of Rochester) 1919
File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence primarily documenting Sidney Hillman's activities as the ACWA's first president during its formative years. Early correspondence with such figures as Joseph Schlossberg and Jacob Potofsky describes the 1914 split with the United Garment Workers, which led to the formation of the ACWA. Letters from Potofsky, E.J. Brais and Frank Rosenblum also discuss the process of industrial unionization, the amalgamation of the craft unions that had previously represented organized workers...
Dates:
1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)
Johannsen, A. (Organizer, Chicago) 1918-20
File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Abstract
Chicago: organizing knit goods workers; back pay to employees of Harris and Guthman Brothers; Chicago Packing Plants general strike relating to "race riots"; Indianapolis: organizing workers (especially women workers); Minneapolis: trade unionists and cooperative farmers begin daily paper; Milwaukee: Nettie Richardson's organizing efforts acknowledged; jurisdictional controversy with Journeymen Tailors' Union (J.S. Polacheck shop).
Dates:
1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)
Jones, H.H. (New York State Division of Food and Markets) 1920
File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence primarily documenting Sidney Hillman's activities as the ACWA's first president during its formative years. Early correspondence with such figures as Joseph Schlossberg and Jacob Potofsky describes the 1914 split with the United Garment Workers, which led to the formation of the ACWA. Letters from Potofsky, E.J. Brais and Frank Rosenblum also discuss the process of industrial unionization, the amalgamation of the craft unions that had previously represented organized workers...
Dates:
1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)