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Women's clothing industry -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

ILGWU Communications Department Biography Files

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/177
Abstract

Biographical files on union members, union officers, and political and public figures.

Dates: 0000-2999

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.