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Box 7

 Container

Contains 28 Results:

Waldman, Philip (rank & file worker) n.d.

 File — Box: 7, 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)

Walsh, Frank (U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations) 1914

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 2
Abstract

Concerns hearings on collective bargaining, conciliation and arbitration in the clothing industry.

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Walthall, B. (Chicago Joint Board) 1915

 File — Box: 7, 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)

War Department Office of the Quartermaster. Administration of Labor Standards for Army Clothing, 1917

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 4
Abstract

ACWA's investigation into working conditions in factories making military uniforms. Conditions included over 48 hours per week, low wages, sub-contracting, tenement house work, unskilled labor and child labor.

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

War Department Office of the Quartermaster. Administration of Labor Standards for Army Clothing, 1917-18

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 5-6
Abstract

The Wanamaker and Brown strike (Philadelphia); induction of cutters; issues relating to Government contracts; the labor situation at the Theo. F. Baulig Clothing Company; the Larry Levy decision; controversy re military men in uniform involved in labor disputes; "the use of soldiers and sailors for picketing" by H.F. Ford (2pp); Leon Mann's complaint against cutters.

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Webb, Sidney (photostat) 1923

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 7
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)

Webman, J. (Cleveland Joint Board) 1918

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 8
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)

Weinzweig, J. (Organizer, St. Louis) 1925

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 9
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)

Weitzenfeld, David (accountant) 1916

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 10
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)