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Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

ILGWU. Gus Tyler papers

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/096
Abstract

Correspondence, subject files, articles, transcripts of broadcasts, photographs, and other materials dating from the end of the 1950s to 1996.

Dates: 1956-1996

ILGWU Research Department Collected Documents

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/056
Abstract

Much of the material concerns various strikes, including the New York cloakmakers' strikes of 1926 and 1929, as well as the "Protocol of Peace" of 1910. There are some additional items dealing with the New York Cloak Joint Board. A good portion of the material is administrative in nature.

Dates: 1906-1948

ILGWU Western States Region Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/115
Abstract Contains records of the office of the Western States Region's constitutive departments, namely Political and Education, Organizing, Legal Services, and Accounting and Miscellaneous Services. Contains an extensive series of papers from Cornelius Wall (Director, Western States Region), Max Wolf (Director, Political and Education Department), Ralph Smith (Director, Organizing Department) and Smith's successor, Meyer Silverstein (Director, Organizing Department). Also contains reports of house...
Dates: 1940-1986

International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Louis Stulberg, General Secretary-Treasurer. Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/003.
Abstract

The Stulberg General Secretary-Treasurer records consist primarily of correspondence dealing with union managerial matters during Stulberg's term in office, though there is also some correspondence from his tenure as executive vice-president (April 1956-May 1959), as well as a small amount (ca. 1 linear foot) of personal correspondence in the collection.

Dates: 1956-1966 [bulk 1959-1966].