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Box 88

 Container

Contains 45 Results:

Workers Unemployed Union, 1935 Request Item

 File — Box: 88, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sidney Hillman and the ACWA played crucial roles in founding the CIO. Hillman's correspondence with Walter Reuther and George Addes of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Emil Rieve of the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee reflects that effort. The Roosevelt era brought both increased visibility and power to Hillman and the union. In 1933, Hillman was chosen to serve on the National Recovery Administration's Labor Advisory Board. The materials from this NRA period...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Workingmen's Education Association, 1936 Request Item

 File — Box: 88, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sidney Hillman and the ACWA played crucial roles in founding the CIO. Hillman's correspondence with Walter Reuther and George Addes of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Emil Rieve of the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee reflects that effort. The Roosevelt era brought both increased visibility and power to Hillman and the union. In 1933, Hillman was chosen to serve on the National Recovery Administration's Labor Advisory Board. The materials from this NRA period...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Workmen's Circle, 1935-43 Request Item

 File — Box: 88, Folder: 33
Abstract

Letter from J. Edgar Hoover concerning J. Weinberg (President, the Workmen's Circle); "The Workmen's Circle Opposes Communism and Dictatorship;" cartoon drawing of Hillman.

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

Works Progress Administration, 1935-38 Request Item

 File — Box: 88, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sidney Hillman and the ACWA played crucial roles in founding the CIO. Hillman's correspondence with Walter Reuther and George Addes of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Emil Rieve of the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee reflects that effort. The Roosevelt era brought both increased visibility and power to Hillman and the union. In 1933, Hillman was chosen to serve on the National Recovery Administration's Labor Advisory Board. The materials from this NRA period...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

W (general) 1930-46 Request Item

 File — Box: 88, Folder: 36-41
Abstract "Walter Wilson's and Frank Nelson's plan for a bibliography and finding list of source and secondary materials relating to labor and agrarian movements in the United States; Harvey Walker's (Educational Counselor of the National Institution of Public Affairs) ""Training for Public Administration""; Whiting Williams' (Counsel in Employee and Customer Relations, Cleveland, Ohio) report ""New Year Season of 1936""; Herman Wolf's discussion of southern textile mill villages; telegram to Hillman...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Yale University, 1940 Request Item

 File — Box: 88, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sidney Hillman and the ACWA played crucial roles in founding the CIO. Hillman's correspondence with Walter Reuther and George Addes of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Emil Rieve of the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee reflects that effort. The Roosevelt era brought both increased visibility and power to Hillman and the union. In 1933, Hillman was chosen to serve on the National Recovery Administration's Labor Advisory Board. The materials from this NRA period...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Yiddish Theatre Art (Friends of) 1937-40 Request Item

 File — Box: 88, Folder: 43
Abstract

Dr. Max Weinreich's request that Hillman assist him in efforts to free Zalman Rejzin (Yiddish writer, scientist and a director of the Yiddish Scientific Institute) and his son Abraham, who are imprisoned in Vileika, White Russia.

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

Youth Congress (American) 1936-38 Request Item

 File — Box: 88, Folder: 44
Abstract

H.R. 4611 (vocational guidance and training as well as employment opportunities.)

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

YMHA and YWHA, 1930-42 Request Item

 File — Box: 88, Folder: 45
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sidney Hillman and the ACWA played crucial roles in founding the CIO. Hillman's correspondence with Walter Reuther and George Addes of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Emil Rieve of the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee reflects that effort. The Roosevelt era brought both increased visibility and power to Hillman and the union. In 1933, Hillman was chosen to serve on the National Recovery Administration's Labor Advisory Board. The materials from this NRA period...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)