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Box 1

 Container

Contains 29 Results:

Brookwood Labor College: 1928-32.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Abstract

Ltrs. from A.J. Muste (Chairman of Faculty); releases, statements issued by College re controversy with AFL over teaching policies, 1928; correspondence with Roger Baldwin and A.J. Muste on American Fund for Public Service loan to Union during N.Y. : Cloakmakers strike of 1926, 1929-32.

Dates: 1928-1932.

Congratulatory Messages. Birthday, 1929.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Topics covered in these materials include: communist activity in the garment industry unions; contract negotiations; Schlesinger's role as business manager of the Jewish Daily Forward (Chicago); labor disputes in the women's garment industry of New York City; racketeering; socialism; garment industry strikes in New York City (including the 1929 Cloakmakers' Strike and the 1930 Dressmakers' Strike); the Tom Mooney Defense Committee; relations between manufacturers' associations and the union;...
Dates: 1928-1932.

Couturiers Association of N.Y., 1930

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Topics covered in these materials include: communist activity in the garment industry unions; contract negotiations; Schlesinger's role as business manager of the Jewish Daily Forward (Chicago); labor disputes in the women's garment industry of New York City; racketeering; socialism; garment industry strikes in New York City (including the 1929 Cloakmakers' Strike and the 1930 Dressmakers' Strike); the Tom Mooney Defense Committee; relations between manufacturers' associations and the union;...
Dates: 1928-1932.

Wholesale Dress Manfacturers Association 1929-32.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Topics covered in these materials include: communist activity in the garment industry unions; contract negotiations; Schlesinger's role as business manager of the Jewish Daily Forward (Chicago); labor disputes in the women's garment industry of New York City; racketeering; socialism; garment industry strikes in New York City (including the 1929 Cloakmakers' Strike and the 1930 Dressmakers' Strike); the Tom Mooney Defense Committee; relations between manufacturers' associations and the union;...
Dates: 1928-1932.