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Box 6

 Container

Contains 45 Results:

Tribune (New York) 1917

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 41
Abstract

Letter to the editor refuting claims made in an attack on the ACWA regarding the manufacture of Government uniforms.

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5619, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America records / I. Sidney Hillman correspondence, 1911-1929.

Uniform Department (ACWA) 1917-18

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 42
Abstract

Correspondence relating to the manufacturer of uniforms; demands in the Joint Board of Boston and the Greewald Company case; the discharge of a shop committee at Alfred, Decker and Cohn; complaint filed by Hillman on behalf of the United States Uniform Clothing Repairing Shop demanding, among other issues, "equal pay for equal work for women"; the effects of closed shop at Bush Terminal shops.

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5619, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America records / I. Sidney Hillman correspondence, 1911-1929.

U.S. Coal Commission, 1923

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 43
Abstract

Leiserson's request to discuss the "insubordination clause" in the Hart contract.

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5619, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America records / I. Sidney Hillman correspondence, 1911-1929.

U.S. Fuel Commission, 1917

 File — Box: 6, 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)
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5619, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America records / I. Sidney Hillman correspondence, 1911-1929.

Valenti, G. (Organizer, Syracuse, N.Y.) 1917

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 45
Abstract

Letter dissuading the General Office from abandoning the Rochester drive, citing the establishment of women's and Italian locals, as well as a revival of the Lithuanian locals, and requesting Jewish, Italian and Polish organizers (8pp.)

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5619, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America records / I. Sidney Hillman correspondence, 1911-1929.

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