Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
ILGWU Joint Board of Locals of Needles Trades Workers Industrial Union Minute Book on Microfilm
Collection
Identifier: 5836 mf
Abstract
2 microfilm reels. Joint Board of Locals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 15, 22, 35, 41, 42, 51 & 98
Dates:
1927-1932
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.