Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- New York
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
ILGWU. Local 38 Minutes
Collection
Identifier: 5780/019
Abstract
Contains meeting minutes of local 38's General Executive Board and several of its committees, including the Trial Committee, General Strike Committee, Investigating Committee, Membership Committee, and Special Committees. Also contains membership meeting minutes of Local 38's successor union, Local 124, as well as the local's publication, On the Avenue, and minutes of the local's Italian branch.
Dates:
1915-1958.
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.