Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- New York

The Local 155 records consist primarily of the correspondence of Louis Nelson, manager of Local 15. The activities of the local are documented through articles, speeches, and other materials from the depression years through the late 1960s. Also included are minutes of Local 155's Executive Board between 1979 and 1995, issues of the local's publication, Knitgood Workers' Voice, from 1937 to 1995, files on Joe Lombardo and the Local 155's Health and Welfare Fund.

The New York Cloak Joint Board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, represented a number of New York City local unions whose members were employed as cloak makers. The collection contains reports, photographs, and the correspondence of three of its managers Israel Feinberg, Isidore Nagler and Henoch Mendelsund.

Includes materials pertaining to the following broad subjects: socialist unity, growth and conflict, 1900- 1913; the war years, 1914-1919; Bolshevism and red-baiting, 1918-1921; fusion politics, 1922-1924; reconstruction and decline of the Socialist Party, 1925-1933; and trade unionism, 1909-1933. This is a microfilm edition of the Morris Hillquit papers, the originals are at the Wisconsin State Historical Society.