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Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

ILGWU Legal Department Audio-Visual Materials

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/107 AV
Abstract

The collection contains audio recordings of interviews with ILGWU members relating to working at, and, later, striking against the Kellwood Company, as well as notes relating to these interviews.

Dates: 1965-1980

ILGWU. Legal Department photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/107 P
Abstract

This collection consists of photographs taken during the ILGWU strike against the Kellwood Company between 1967 and 1972. Included are images of meetings and rallies, as well as of the memorial service Eugene Hampton, an ILGWU member who was killed during the strike.

Dates: 1967-1973

ILGWU Legal Department Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/063
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence, memoranda, financial reports, and printed material relating to the establishment of the ILGWU's cooperative housing in New York City, as well as research into similar projects elsewhere. Also included in this collection are files on the Ladies' Garment Workers' Center in New York City, arbitration regarding faulty design and construction of Unity House in the Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania, and contract negotiations in 1979.

Dates: 1920-1995

ILGWU Legal Department Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/081
Abstract

The collection consists of case files, case summaries, incomplete case files, contract histories, subject files and miscellaneous materials from the Legal Department between 1928 and 1982.

Dates: 1919-1982

ILGWU Legal Department Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/107
Abstract

The collection contains files relating to the ILGWU's organizing and legal activities surrounding the Kellwood Company at several of its divisions throughout the southern United States through court documents, correspondence, clippings, organizing leaflets, and accounts and interviews of the strike.

Dates: 1958-1980