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Clothing workers -- Labor unions

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

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. 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.

Schlesinger, Emil. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 6036/018
Abstract

This collection includes letters, briefs, cases and investigations of the garment industry as it relates to Emil Schlesinger and his legal counsel for the union.

Dates: 1947-1968

UNITE Communications Department Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 6000/037 P
Scope and Contents

UNITE rallies and demonstrations as well as various meetings, informational guides, family images and historical pieces

Dates: 1996-2004