Box 5

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Shareholders in RAIC

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UGW threatens to withdraw patronage from Leopold Morse Company unless it shifts from ACWA to UGW.

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...

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...

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Dispute between the Associated Clothing Manufacturers of Toronto and the ACWA over the installation of a checking system; discussion of a campaign to organize clothing workers throughout Canada; resolutions concerning unemployment and cooperatives; appointment of Miss Gold to organize women shirtmakers; agreement dispute between ACWA and the W.P. Johnston Company (complicated by factionalism in Toronto locals.)

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Organizing Polish, Bohemian and Jewish workers; English, Italian, Polish labor newspapers; May Day Parade; trouble with the Journeymen Tailors' Union; discriminatory discharges at Continental Tailoring Company; Gompers' plan for the United Hebrew Trades to re-open negotiations between the ACWA and the UGW; ACWA agreement with the American Clothing Manufacturers Association; strike at Chas Kaufman begun by off pressers and spread to all workers; Chicago on the verge of a general strike.

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Strikes in Philadelphia and St. Louis - police violence and worker arrests discussed; reference to the "St. Louis courts of Justice"; plan for restructuring Chicago coatmaker locals; manufacturers' expectation that the union will set standards and systems immediately.

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...

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High unemployment in Buffalo

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...