International labor activities

Scope and Contents The Archives Foreign File is a collection of printed ephemeral documents, issued primarily by foreign and international trade unions and labor organizations. All continents are represented, though the majority of materials is of European origin. Topics covered in this collection include union organizing, unemployment, working conditions, the working class, the labor movement, industrial relations, worker education, international trade unionism, works councils, automation, economic conditions...

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This is a collection of duplicate material which was given to us by his wife. Professor Witte's papers have been given to the University of Wisconsin.

Abstract The International Relations Department records consist chiefly of the correspondence of its director, Henoch Mendlesund, during his tenure from 1968-1980, and Michele Briones. The collection also includes articles, reports, conference materials, photographs, and other items. b The materials in this collection have an emphasis on labor issues in the developing world. There is correspondence with leaders of clothing and textile workers' unions in India, Japan, Turkey, Kenya, Latin America,...

Abstract The records of the Education Department of Local 22 consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, newsletters, programs, photographs, and speeches documenting the activities of the Department from the 1930s to the 1970s. In addition to documentating the Department's activities, there is material on the local's political involvement with the Liberal Party of New York State and some items about aid to the Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War. There are also some materials dealing...

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The New York Cloak Joint Board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, represented a number of New York City local unions whose members were employed as cloak makers. The collection contains reports, photographs, and the correspondence of three of its managers Israel Feinberg, Isidore Nagler and Henoch Mendelsund.

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Subject files of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

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This collection contains agendas and minutes of the Asian Regional Committee's Executive Board, reports of the Regional Secretary, and reports and other materials about trade unionism in Asia.

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John P. Windmuller's papers regarding the ILR School International Relations Department.

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Consist chiefly of reports and agendas of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, correspondence, studies and reports regarding international relations, the world economy and trade unions throughout the world, especially in postwar Europe