Box 1

Includes letter from Jane Addams, Aug. 1922; letter notifying Schlesinger on his election to membership on the Organizing Committee for the Peoples Council of America for Democracy and Peace, June 1917; proposed outline from American Civil Liberties Union on relation between employers and workers, July 1921; letters from American Jewish Congress re meetings, 1917.

Includes financial requests from American Medical Aid for Russia, 1922; letters from American Red Cross on their campaigns, 1917-18; correspondence with Misha Appelbaum (founder), Humanitarian Cult re:strike in cloak industry and his effort to arbitrate, 1916; letter from Leon Arkin (Jewish Daily Forward), Boston, on union activities in Boston, 1922.

Includes correspondence with Abraham Baroff, 1919; letters from Joseph Barondess requesting financial assistance for individuals and East Broadway Kehillah 1917-18; correspondence with Arthur Somers (President), Board of Education, NYC, on use of Italian or Yiddish in night courses in public schools, 1918.

Includes two letters from Bernard Braff (Gen. Secretary-Treas.) to Jacob Leibowitz (Member, GEB), 1900-01; Robert W. Bruere's resignation letter from Board of Arbitration in Dress Industry, 1916.

Includes letter from Allen Robinson (chairman), Citizens Committee for the Support of the Locked-Out Cloak and Suit Makers requesting contributions to be used for settling differences between manufacturers and union and not for strike benefits, July 1916; Schlesinger letter to Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers Association, stating union's position in adjusting relations between union and manufacturers, May 1922.

Includes memoranda with Max Danish (Editor), Justice, 1917-1918; letters from Clarence S. Darrow, 1917, 1922; letter from Morris Weiss (President), Dress and Waist Manufacturers Association on Garment Industry situation, Jan. 1919.

Includes letters from Educational Alliance, 1918; correspondence with Henry Hilfers (Secretary), Essex Trades Council, 1915, 1918.

Includes letter from D. Feinberg (Secretary), Jewish Colonization Association, on Jewish communities in Europe, Nov. 1915; Israel Feinberg letter of resignation as General Manager from New York Cloak and Dress Joint Board, 1922; correspondence with John Fitzpatrick (President), Chicago Federation of Labor, 1917, 1919-20; John P. Frey (Editor), International. Moulders Union, 1922.

Including correspondence with Harry A. Garfield, Fuel Administrator, on order issued on coal consumption (heatless Mondays) and suspension of order, Jan-Feb. 1918; letters from J. J. Goldman (President), Dress and Waist Manufacturers Association, 1916.

Including letters from Adolph Held, Isaac A. Hourwich.