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Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

ILGWU. General Executive Board Appeal Committee cases

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/018
Abstract

Contains correspondence and case files of the Grievance Committee, Appeal Committee, Special Investigation Committee, and Election and Objection Committee of the General Executive Board.

Dates: 1926-1983.

ILGWU Local 22, Charles S Zimmerman Papers on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/014 mf
Abstract

Primarily correspondence, reports, minutes, newspaper clippings, and broadsides dealing with his activities as a leader in Local 22 (in Series I), as well as his other union and political activities (in Series II). Among the most significant material in the collection is correspondence documenting Zimmerman's activities with the Communist Party in the U.S. and its various factions and splinter groups, as well as other political organizations and figures.

Dates: 1933-1954

ILGWU. Local 22. Charles S. Zimmerman photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/014 P
Abstract

The collection includes images of important people in Local 22, along with images of sports and cultural events, parades, marches, strikes, meetings and educational programs.

Dates: 1930-1959

ILGWU Local 22 Israel Breslow Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/067
Abstract

The collection contains the records of Local 22's manager, Israel Breslow, including speeches and articles by Breslow, files relating to local union elections, and Breslow's reports to the membership.

Dates: 1913-1981

ILGWU. Local 22 minutes

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/036
Abstract

Records of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Local 22, Dressmakers Union. Includes minutes of Executive Board, Membership, and Grievance Committee meetings.

Dates: 1932-1972.

ILGWU Local 22 Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/015
Abstract

The collection consists of alphabetical files of Local 22 from 1920 to 1933, containing correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and other material.

Dates: 1920-1933

ILGWU. Research Department records

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/045
Abstract

The collection contains records of predecessor unions and locals of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

Dates: 1884-1948

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. Benjamin Schlesinger, President. Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/009
Abstract Correspondence, form letters, circulars and subject files relating to Schlesinger's second term as president, June 1914 to January 1923. Topics covered in these materials include union organizing; strikes, labor disputes, working conditions, and other labor issues in the women's garment industry, particularly in New York City; inter-union relations; relations between manufacturers' associations and the union; efforts by Schlesinger and others to form an alliance of garment workers' unions;...
Dates: 1914-1923.