Women's clothing industry -- United States

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This collection includes files on the renovation of Unity House. Also included is a 1993 article on the history of the ILGWU in Northern Pennsylvania.

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Manuscripts, typescripts, and bound volumes containing unpublished histories of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Authors include Julius Hochman, Abraham Rosenberg, and Fannia Cohn.

Abstract Contains records of the Upper South Department of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, including correspondence, agreements, financial statements, and many files on joint boards, local unions, and conferences in the region. Joint Boards of Baltimore, Cleveland, and New York City are represented in the records of the Upper South Department. Locals represented in this subseries include: 4 (Baltimore, MD), 23-25 (New York, NY), 62 (New York, NY), 91 (New York, NY), 106 (Baltimore,...

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The collection contains records of the Western Massachusetts District Council primarily documenting its financial transactions, including records of state and federal tax payments, documentation of investments, fundraising for its Campaign Committee, and benefits paid from the Northeast Department Health and Welfare Fund. A smaller portion of the Western District Council records is correspondence on other matters.

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...

Abstract Contains records of Wilbur Daniels from his tenure as Director of the Master Agreements Department, Vice President, and Executive Vice President. Includes records relating to General Executive Board meetings, ILGWU conventions, and administrative matters. Files from the Master Agreements Department contain agreements, arbitration cases, bargaining demands, clippings, correspondence, constitution clauses, legal documents, mediation notices, miscellaneous photographs, negotiations, notes,...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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;...