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Clothing workers -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 178 Collections and/or Records:

ILGWU. Wilbur Daniels papers

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/113
Abstract

Contains files maintained by Wilbur Daniels while working as Associate General Counsel in the Legal Department, Assistant to the President, Director of the Master Agreements Department, Vice President, and Executive Vice-President. The bulk of the files pertain to the negotiation of agreements with companies and associations in the 1960s and 1970s.

Dates: 1967-1973.

ILGWU. Wilbur Daniels papers

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/155
Abstract

Contains records of Wilbur Daniels relating to General Executive Board meetings and ILGWU conventions, including reports, correspondence, notes and planning documents. Also included are some correspondence President Sol Chaikin and materials relating to his retirement in 1986.

Dates: 1977-1985.

ILGWU. Women's Wear Daily Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/128
Abstract

This collection consists of scrapbooks containing clippings from Women's Wear Daily from 1977 to 1985. While some articles feature the ILGWU, others address the women's garment industry more generally.

Dates: 1977-1985.

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.

International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Benjamin Schlesinger, President. Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/010
Abstract

Correspondence and subject files relating to Schlesinger's term, October 1928 to June 1932.

Dates: 1928-1932.

International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Louis Stulberg, President. Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/004
Abstract

The Stulberg presidential records consist of correspondence, memoranda, photographs, speeches and subject files primarily dealing with union matters during Stulberg's term in office, though there are some personal materials in the collection as well.

Dates: 1945-1977 [bulk 1966-1975].

International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Morris Sigman, President. Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/006
Abstract

The collection consists of correspondence, subject files, form letters, circulars, speeches and other items from Morris Sigman's term as ILGWU president.

Dates: 1923-1928.

Teper, Lazare. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 6036/030
Abstract

This collection contains reports and statements written or delivered by Lazare Teper, as well as correspondence and notes relating to a course, "Labor Issues and the Planning Process," taught by Teper.

Dates: 1928-1979