Guide to the ILGWU. Chicago Joint Board Records,
1914-1975

Collection Number: 5780/044

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
Martin P. Catherwood Library
227 Ives Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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kheel_center@cornell.edu
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel

Compiled by:

Robert E. Lazar

Date completed:

December 1980

EAD encoding:

Cheryl Beredo, March 2011

© 2011 Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

ILGWU. Chicago Joint Board records, 1914-1975

Collection Number:

5780/044

Creator:

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Chicago Joint Board.

Quantity:

18.25 linear feet

Forms of Material:

Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, subject files, publications.

Repository:

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

Abstract:

Contains files on local unions throughout the Midwestern United States, as well as material on Joint Boards of Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Kansas City. In addition to meeting minutes of several local unions in Chicago (59, 74, 76, 100, 208, 212, 261, 314, 381), this collection includes minutes of meetings relating to the Chicago Health Center and union health and retirement funds. General correspondence deals with organizing activities in the Midwest area. Subject files consist of correspondence concerning intra-office, union, and local matters, minutes of the Joint Board, and publications either created or collected by the Joint Board. Correspondents throughout both series include Morris Bialis, Abraham Plotkin, Harry Rufer and Harold Schwartz. Locals represented in the records of the Chicago Joint Board include: 67 (Toledo, OH),90 (Elgin, IL), 120 (Decatur, IL), 133 (Peoria, IL), 187 (Racine, WI), 189 (Batavia, IL), 238 (Gary, IN), 240 (Aurora, IL), 272 (Gilman, IL), 277 (Indianapolis, IN), 286 (Ishpeming, MI), 293 (Marquette and Negaunee), 317 (Bay City, MI), 328 (Kokomo, IN) 337 (Elkhart, IN), 354 (Alpena, MI), 355 (Clinton, IA), 355 (Manistee, MI), 364 (Port Huron, MI), 380 (Shelbyville, IN), 382 (Lincoln, IL), 392 (Logansport, IN), 441 (Kalamazoo, MI), 489 (Kendallville, IN), 508 (Mauston, WI).

Language:

Collection material in English

ILGWU ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was founded in New York City in 1900 by mostly Socialist immigrant workers who sought to unite the various crafts in the growing women's garment industry. The union soon reflected changes in the sector and rapidly organized thousands of unskilled and semi-skilled women, mostly Jewish and Italian young immigrants. Exemplifying the “new unionism,” the ILGWU led two of the most widespread and best-known industrial strikes of the early Twentieth Century: the shirtwaist makers’ strike of 1909 in New York City and the cloak makers’ strike of 1910 in Chicago. The union also tried to adapt to the fragmented and unstable nature of the industry. It adopted the “protocol of peace,” a system of industrial relations that attempted to ensure stability and limit strikes and production disruption by providing for an arbitration system to resolve disputes.

The ILGWU exemplified the European-style social unionism of its founding members. They pursued bread and butter issues but provided educational opportunities, benefits, and social programs to union members as well. In 1919, the ILGWU became the first American union to negotiate an unemployment compensation fund that was contributed to by its employers. The ILGWU also pioneered in the establishment of an extremely progressive health care program for its members which included not only regional Union Health Centers but also a resort for union workers, known as Unity House. The Union also had an imaginative and pioneering Education Department which not only trained workers in traditional union techniques, but provided courses in citizenship and the English language.

David Dubinsky, an immigrant from Belarus who came to the US in 1911, provided strong leadership that led to unprecedented growth in the union during his presidency from 1932 to 1966. He led the union through successful internal anti-communist struggles, built on the ascendancy of industrial unionism by encouraging the formation of the Committee for Industrial Organization, and helped the union become an important political force in New York City and state politics, and in the national Democratic Party and Liberal Party as well.

In the period following the Second World War, the union suffered a decline in membership as manufacturers avoided unionization and took advantage of less expensive labor by moving shops from the urban centers in the northeast to the south, and later abroad. The ethnic and racial character of the ILGWU also changed as European immigrants were supplanted by Asians, Latin Americans, African- Americans, and immigrants from the Caribbean.

In July 1995 the ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) at a joint convention, forming UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees). At the time the new union had a membership of about 250,000 in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

SUBJECTS

Names:

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Chicago Joint Board.

Subjects:

Women's clothing industry--United States.

Labor unions--Clothing workers--United States.

Clothing workers--United States.

Industrial relations--United States.

Form and Genre Terms:

Correspondence.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Access Restrictions:

The ILGWU Records, except for publications and materials produced for publication, are restricted. Materials created prior to twenty years from the current date are open to researchers only with prior written permission from the Director of the Kheel Center; materials created during the past twenty-years are closed; the minutes of the General Executive Board are closed. For more information contact the Kheel Center.

Cite As:

ILGWU. Chicago Joint Board records. 5780/044. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.

Series I. General correspondence

Series II. Subject files.

CONTAINER LIST

Date	Description	Container
	Series I. General correspondence
1944-1945	Albion, Ill.	Box 1	Folder 1
	Incl. corres. re Albion Mfg. Co.
1937-1940	Alpena, Mich., Local 354	Box 1	Folder 2
	1937-Sept. 1940. I.c.w. and re. Alpena Garment Co., Inc.
1940-1944	Alpena, Mich., Local 354	Box 1	Folder 3
	Oct. 1940-44.
1939-1940	Anderson, Ind., local 361	Box 1	Folder 4
	1939-June 1940, Incl. corres. & printed material re Ward-Stelson Garment Co.
1940-1944	Anderson, Ind.	Box 1	Folder 5
	July 1940-44.
1939-1944	Anderson, Ind.	Box 1	Folder 6
	Printed material.
1941	Appleton, Wisc.	Box 1	Folder 7
	Incl. corres. & printed material re Pox River Valley Knitting Co.
1936	Aurora, Ill., Local 240	Box 1	Folder 8
	Incl. corres. re R. and M. Kaufman Co.
1937-1938	Aurora, Ill., Local 240	Box 1	Folder 9
1939-1963	Aurora, Ill., Local 240	Box 1	Folder 10
1941-1957	Batavia, Ill., Local 189	Box 2	Folder 1
1937-1945	Bay City, Mich., Local 317	Box 2	Folder 2
	Incl. corres. & agreement re Wolverine Knitting Mills, Inc.
1936-1953	Boston, Mass.	Box 2	Folder 3
	Corres. w. Philip Kramer of Boston Cloak, Suit and Dressmakers Joint Board
1937-1938	Brazil, Ind.	Box 2	Folder 4
	Incl. corres. re Brazil Mfg. Co.
1938-1941	Brazil, Ind.	Box 2	Folder 5
1944	Chattanooga, Tenn.	Box 2	Folder 6
1946-1947	Chesterton, Ind.	Box 2	Folder 7
	Incl. corres. re Forest City Mfg. Co.
1940-1941	Chicago Heights, Ill.	Box 2	Folder 8
1936-1939	Cleveland, O.	Box 2	Folder 9
	Incl. Cleveland Jt. Bd., corres. w. Abraham W. Katovsky, David Solomon, & H. D. Langer.
1940-1952	Cleveland, O.	Box 2	Folder 10
1936-1937	Clinton, Iowa, Local 355	Box 3	Folder 1
	Incl. corres. re Clinton Garment Co. (a subsidiary of Lee Garment Co. in Chicago, Ill.) & R. and M. Kaufman Co., hearing before NLRB; correspondents incl. Selma Buck & Beatrice Schonberg.
1938	Clinton, Iowa	Box 3	Folder 2
	Incl. case of Nellie Howard & Louise Zimmerman, two employees discharged for union activities; i.c.w. A.E.Hubbard.
1939	Clinton, Iowa	Box 3	Folder 3
1940-1941	Clinton, Iowa	Box 3	Folder 4
1943-1945	Clinton, Iowa	Box 3	Folder 5
	Dec. 1943-45.
1938	Covington, Ind.	Box 3	Folder 6
1940	Crawfordsville, Ind., Local 358	Box 3	Folder 7
1934	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 3	Folder 8
	Incl. corres. re Decatur Garment Co.
1935-1936	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 3	Folder 9
	1935 -Mar. 1936. I.c.w. Caroline Burke & re. A.F. Keating Co., Decatur Garment Co., Home Mfg. Co., & Osgood & Sons Mfg. Co.
1936	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 4	Folder 1
	April-Dec. 1936.
1937	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 4	Folder 2
	Jan -Aug. 1937.
1937	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 4	Folder 3
	Sept. -Dec. 1937.
1938	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 4	Folder 4
	Jan-June 1938.
1938	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 4	Folder 5
	July-Dec. 1938.
1940	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 4	Folder 6
	Jan-April 1940. I.c.w. Margaret Walpole, Helen Duncan & Inez Bennett.
1940	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 4	Folder 7
	May-June 1940.
1940	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 4	Folder 8
	July-Dec. 1940. Incl. corres. re Home Mfg. Co.
1941	Decatur, Ill. Local 120	Box 5	Folder 1
	Jan -Aug. 1941.
1941	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 5	Folder 2
	Sept-Dec. 1941.
1942-1944	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 5	Folder 3
1945	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 5	Folder 4
1946-1947	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 5	Folder 5
1950-1955	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 5	Folder 6
1956-1969	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 5	Folder 7
	I.c.w. Margaret Songer.
1936-1940	Decatur, Ill., Local 120	Box 5	Folder 8
	Radio broadcasts, A. Plotkin & Harry Rufer.
	Decatur, Ill.	Box 5	Folder 9
	Printed material.
1936-1937	Detroit, Mich.	Box 6	Folder 1
	1936-Aug. 1937. Incl. Muskegon & Grand Rapids, Mich. I.c.w. Michael Rosen.
1937	Detroit, Mich.	Box 6	Folder 2
	Sept-Dec. 1937.
1938	Detroit, Mich.	Box 6	Folder 3
	Jan-June 1938. I.c.w. Joseph Zuckerman & cases re Amazon Knitting Mills, Globe Knitting Works, Muskegon Garment Co. & Star Apron Mfg. Co.
1938	Detroit, Mich.	Box 6	Folder 4
	July-Dec. 1938.
1939-1940	Detroit, Mich.	Box 6	Folder 5
	Incl. corres. re Alpena Garment Co. & American Lady Corset Co.
1941	Detroit, Mich.	Box 6	Folder 6
1943-1945	Detroit, Mich.	Box 6	Folder 7
	I.c.w. William E. Davis.
1949-1951	Detroit, Mich.	Box 6	Folder 8
1954	Detroit, Mich.	Box 6	Folder 9
1955-1956	Detroit, Mich.	Box 7	Folder 1
1957-1962	Detroit, Mich.	Box 7	Folder 2
1944-1945	Dubuque, Iowa	Box 7	Folder 3
	Incl. corres. re Dubuque Garment Co., Inc., & hearings before the NLRB.
1936-1945	Elgin, Ill., Local 90	Box 7	Folder 4
1936-1937	Elkhart, Ind., Local 337	Box 7	Folder 5
	I.c.w. Mary Engel.
1938-1945	Elkhart, Ind.	Box 7	Folder 6
1945	Escanaba, Mich.	Box 7	Folder 7
1937-194	Fairbury, Ill.	Box 7	Folder 8
1937-194	Ft. Wayne, Ind.	Box 7	Folder 9
1941-1945	Garrett, Ind.	Box 7	Folder 10
	1955. Incl. corres. re Nature's Rival Co.
1936-1941	Gary, Ind., Local 238	Box 7	Folder 11
	Incl. corres. re Gary Garment Co. & w. Eleanore Hoagland.
1937-1940	Gilman, Ill., Local 272	Box 7	Folder 12
	I.c.w. Oliver Hartley re Western Dress Co.
1937	Grand Rapids, Mich.	Box 8	Folder 1
	Incl. corres. re Modern Globe Co.
1938-195	Grand Rapids, Mich.	Box 8	Folder 2
1937-1955	Huntington, Ind., Local 426	Box 8	Folder 3
1937-1938	Huntington, W. Va.	Box 8	Folder 4
1936-1970	Illinois, Miscellaneous	Box 8	Folder 5
1936-1944	Indiana, Miscellaneous	Box 8	Folder 6
1936-1937	Indianapolis, Ind., Local 277	Box 8	Folder 7
	1936-May 1937. I.c.w. Alice Burster re Real Silk Hosiery Mills, Inc.
1937	Indianapolis, Ind.	Box 8	Folder 8
	June-Dec, 1937.
1938	Indianapolis, Ind.	Box 8	Folder 9
1939-1940	Indianapolis, Ind.	Box 8	Folder 10
	1939-July 1940. Ind. corres. re Janalene, Inc.
1940	Indianapolis, Ind.	Box 8	Folder 11
	Aug-Dec, 1940.
1941-1943	Indianapolis, Ind.	Box 9	Folder 1
1944-1945	Indianapolis, Ind.	Box 9	Folder 2
1941-1944	Ishpeming, Mich., Local 286	Box 9	Folder 3
	1941, Jan-June 1944 I.c.w. Ruby M. Dingman.
1944-1945	Ishpeming, Mich.	Box 9	Folder 4
	July 1944-45.
1955-1966	Ishpeming, Mich.	Box 9	Folder 5
	I.c.w. Ruth Craine.
1937	Jackson, Mich.	Box 9	Folder 6
	Incl. corres. re Trenton Garment Co.
1936-1958	Kalamazoo, Mich., Local 441	Box 9	Folder 7
1935-1936	Kansas City, Mo.	Box 9	Folder 8
1945	Kendallville, Ind., Local 489	Box 9	Folder 9
1935	Kenosha, Wisc.	Box 9	Folder 10
1936-1939	Kokomo, Ind., Local 328	Box 10	Folder 1
	I.c.w. Irish Austin re Reliance Mfg. Co., Sterling Division.
1941	Kokomo, Ind.	Box 10	Folder 2
	I.c.w. Alida Cunningham.
1942-1943	Kokomo, Ind.	Box 10	Folder 3
	1942 -June 1943.
1943-1944	Kokomo, Ind.	Box 10	Folder 4
	July 1943-June 1944.
1944-1945	Kokomo, Ind.	Box 10	Folder 5
	July 1944-45.
1937	Lacrosse, Wise.	Box 10	Folder 6
	July-Sept, 1937. I.c.w. Alice Burster re Lacrosse Garment Co.
1937-1938	Lacrosse, Wisc.	Box 10	Folder 7
	Oct, 1937-38.
1936-1938	LaPorte, Ind.	Box 10	Folder 8
	LaSalle, Ill.
1937-1941	Lincoln, Ill., Local 382	Box 10	Folder 9
1944-1945	Lincoln, Ill.	Box 10	Folder 10
	Corres. re Lincoln Allied Dress Co.
1939-1941	Logansport, Ind., Local 392	Box 11	Folder 1
	1939-Nov, 1941. Incl. corres. & strike material re H.W.Gossard Corset Co.
1941-1942	Logansport, Ind.	Box 11	Folder 2
	Dec, 1941-42.
1943-1944	Logansport, Ind.	Box 11	Folder 3
1945-1957	Logansport, Ind.	Box 11	Folder 4
1936-1955	Los Angeles, Calif	Box 11	Folder 5
	(Incl. L.A. Cloak & Dress Jt. Bds.) Incl. Isidor Stenzor memorandum to D. Dubinsky & Special GEB Committee on L. A. situation, Aug, 1955; publications. Shop News, 1941 & The Garmentator, 1944.
1950	Los Angeles, Calif.	Box 11	Folder 6
	(L.A. Cloak & Dress Jt. Bds.) Corres., reports & printed material from & re Special Committee of the GEB (Charles S. Zimmerman, Morris Bialis & Meyer Perlstein) to correct the existing conditions (Communist situation) in the L.A. Cloak & Dress organization
1956-1959	Los Angeles, Calif.	Box 11	Folder 7
	I.c.w. Isidor Stenzor & printed material from and re left- and rightwing groups of the affiliated locals in L.A.
1944	Manistee, Mich., Local 355	Box 11	Folder 8
1951-1960	Marinette, Wise.	Box 11	Folder 9
	Incl. corres. re Marinette Knitting Mills.
1941-1944	Marquette and Negaunee, Mich., Local 293	Box 12	Folder 1
	I.c.w. David M. Abilew of U.P. Dress Mfg. Co.
1945-1955	Marquette and Negaunee, Mich.	Box 12	Folder 2
1947-1953	Mason City, Iowa	Box 12	Folder 3
1963-1971	Mauston, Wisc., Local 508	Box 12	Folder 4
1940-1941	Michigan, Miscellaneous	Box 12	Folder 5
1935-1940	Milwaukee, Wisc., Local 188 and Milwaukee Joint Board	Box 12	Folder 6
	I.c.w. Salvatore Ninfo & Benjamin Dolnick.
1941-1945	Milwaukee, Wisc.	Box 12	Folder 7
1948-1950	Milwaukee, Wisc., Milwaukee Jt. Bd.	Box 12	Folder 8
	I.c.w. Harry P. Bovshow.
1951-1952	Milwaukee, Wisc., Milwaukee Jt. Bd.	Box 12	Folder 9
1953-1954	Milwaukee, Wisc., Milwaukee Jt. Bd.	Box 12	Folder 10
1955-1957	Milwaukee, Wisc., Milwaukee Jt. Bd.	Box 12	Folder 11
1958-1969	Milwaukee, Wisc., Milwaukee Jt. Bd.	Box 13	Folder 1
	Corres. w. George Paris.
1967-1971	Milwaukee, Wisc.	Box 13	Folder 2
1936-1959	Minneapolis, Minn.	Box 13	Folder 3
	I.c.w. Michael Finkelstein , Twin Cities Jt. Bd.
1936-1937	Mishawaka, Ind.	Box 13	Folder 4
1937	New Albany, Ind.	Box 13	Folder 5
1938	New Albany, Ind.	Box 13	Folder 6
1950-1958	Norway, Michigan	Box 13	Folder 7
	Incl. corres. & agreement w. Norway Needlecraft Corp.
1933-1936	Peoria, Ill., Local 133	Box 13	Folder 8
	I.c.w. Geraldine (Jerry) Hill.
1937	Peoria, Ill.	Box 13	Folder 9
	Jan-May 1937. Incl. corres. re Betty Brown Co. & Chic Mfg. Co.
1937	Peoria, Ill.	Box 13	Folder 10
	June-Nov, 1937.
1938	Peoria, Ill.	Box 13	Folder 11
	Dec, 1937-Apr, 1938.
1938-1939	Peoria, Ill.	Box 14	Folder 1
	May 1938- 1939.
1940	Peoria, Ill.	Box 14	Folder 2
	Jan-May 1940.
1940	Peoria, Ill.	Box 14	Folder 3
	June-Dec, 1940.
1941	Peoria, Ill	Box 14	Folder 4
	Jan-June 1941.
1941	Peoria, Ill.	Box 14	Folder 5
	July-Dec, 1941.
1944-1945	Peoria, Ill.	Box 14	Folder 6
1940-1941	Port Huron, Mich., Local 364	Box 14	Folder 7
	1940-Mar. l941. I.c.w. Ruby M. Dingman re Erd-Marshall Co.
1941-1951	Port Huron, Mich.	Box 14	Folder 8
	Apr- Dec, 1941, 1950-51.
1948-1949	Puerto Rico	Box 14	Folder 9
1934-1957	Racine, Wisc., Local 187	Box 15	Folder 1
1933-1940	St. Louis, Mo., St. Louis and Kansas City Joint Boards	Box 15	Folder 2
	I.c.w. Meyer Perlstein.
1941-1945	St. Louis, Mo.	Box 15	Folder 3
1947-1953	St. Louis, Mo.	Box 15	Folder 4
1954-1957	St. Louis, Mo.	Box 15	Folder 5
1940-1945	Shelbyville, Ind., Local 380	Box 15	Folder 6
	Incl. corres. re Shelby Mfg. Co.
1936-1943	South Bend, Ind., Local 366	Box 15	Folder 7
	I.c.w. Blanche Cox & re Smoler Bros., Inc., Chicago, Ill.
1944-1951	South Bend, Ind.	Box 15	Folder 8
1944-1945	Terre Haute, Ind.	Box 15	Folder 9
1951-1956	Toledo, Ohio, Local 67	Box 15	Folder 10
1940-1949	Toronto, Canada	Box 16	Folder 1
	1967. Incl. Toronto Jt. Bd.
1941-1945	Warsaw, Ill.	Box 16	Folder 2
1945-1962	Watertown, Wisc	Box 16	Folder 3
1940-1944	Wausau, Wisc.	Box 16	Folder 4
	Incl. corres. & agreement w. Marathon Rubber Products Co.
	Wisconsin, Miscellaneous.	Box 16	Folder 5
1937-1938	Zion City, Ill.	Box 16	Folder 6
1917-1947	Agreements, Independent and Collective	Box 16
	Series II. Subject files.
1917-1923	Gen. Corres.	Box 17	Folder 1
	Correspondents incl. Meyer Perlstein & Morris Sigman.
1924-1925	Gen. Corres.	Box 17	Folder 2
1926-1930	Gen. Corres.	Box 17	Folder 3
1918-1923	General Reports	Box 17	Folder 4
	Incl. reports of business agents, complaint department, & committee and related documents.
1924-1926	General Reports	Box 17	Folder 5
1960-1965	Addams Memorial, Jane	Box 17	Folder 6
1951-1959	Adopted Children	Box 17	Folder 7
	War orphans, sponsored through the Jewish Labor Committee.
1944	Aldrich and Aldrich, Inc.	Box 17	Folder 8
1941	American Federation of Labor	Box 17	Folder 9
1951-1960	American Financial and Development Corp. for Israel	Box 17	Folder 10
1936-1941	Bialis, Morris and Abraham Plotkin	Box 17	Folder 11
	Corres. bet. these two on all facets of Union activities.
1942-1949	Bialis, Morris and Abraham Plotkin	Box 17	Folder 12
1950-1951	Bialis, Morris and Abraham Plotkin	Box 17	Folder 13
1952-1953	Bialis, Morris and Abraham Plotkin	Box 17	Folder 14
1948-1949	Bialis, Morris	Box 18	Folder 1
	European trip.
1935-1944	Boris Smoler and Sons, Inc.	Box 18	Folder 2
1948-1949	Carsel, Wilfred	Box 18	Folder 3
	Cases	Box 18	Folder 4
	Incl. Roth & Co. vs Chicago Jt. Bd., 1953; Federal Trade Commission vs Calif. Sportswear & Dress Assoc., et al.
1951-1956	Chicago Cloak and Suit Mfrs. Assoc.	Box 18	Folder 5
1950-1957	Chicago Federation of Labor	Box 18	Folder 6
1940	Chicago Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, A History Of, by Wilfred Carsel	Box 18	Folder 7
	Acknowledgments, incl. Charles A. Beard.
	Chicago Sun; 1942-49.	Box 18	Folder 8
1937-1959	City of Hope (Los Angeles Sanatorium)	Box 18	Folder 9
1955	Cloak and Dress Industry, Chicago, Fact Finding Committee	Box 18	Folder 10
1944	Clothing Workers of America, Amalgamated	Box 18	Folder 11
1954-1971	Contributions	Box 18	Folder 12
	Finance Committee reports.
1947-1956	Defant, Geraldine Gordon, Union Representative	Box 18	Folder 13
	Corres. re Union activities.
1952-1954	Diane Co., Inc.	Box 18	Folder 14
1933-1937	Dubinsky, David	Box 18	Folder 15
	1933-Aug, 1937. Corres. bet. Midwest Region & President's Office on all facets of Union activities.
1937-1940	Dubinsky, David	Box 18	Folder 16
	Sept, 1937-40.
1941-1946	Dubinsky, David	Box 19	Folder 1
1950	Dubinsky, David	Box 19	Folder 2
1951-1953	Dubinsky, David	Box 19	Folder 3
1954-1955	Dubinsky, David	Box 19	Folder 4
1956-1960	Dubinsky, David	Box 19	Folder 5
1960-1963	Dubinsky, David	Box 19	Folder 6
1944	Essays for Summer School, Madison, Wisc.	Box 19	Folder 7
1961-1963	Federation of Union Representatives	Box 19	Folder 8
1947-1949	Financial Reports, Jt. Bd. and Locals	Box 19	Folder 9
1943-1944	Friedlander, Walter	Box 19	Folder 10
1951-1958	General Executive Board	Box 20	Folder 1
	Reports submitted from Chicago proper & Midwest Dept.
1959-1964	General Executive Board.	Box 20	Folder 2
1944-1947	Goldstein, Morris A.	Box 20	Folder 3
	(Secretary-Treasurer of Joint Board)
1923-1924	Grievance Committee	Box 20	Folder 4
1943-1945	H.A. Satin and Co., Inc.	Box 20	Folder 5
	1951. Incl. case before the NLRB.
1941-1945	H.A. Satin and Co., Inc.	Box 20	Folder 6
	1951. Cont'd.
1956-1957	Hege, Robert, Indiana Representative	Box 20	Folder 7
	Reports on Union activities.
1935-1937	Impartial Tribunal, Chicago Dress Industry	Box 20	Folder 8
	Cases and decisions.
1943-1944	Impartial Tribunal	Box 20	Folder 9
	Barrett Hodes (chairman).
1945	Impartial Tribunal	Box 20	Folder 10
1946-1948	Impartial Tribunal	Box 21	Folder 1
1950	Impartial Tribunal	Box 21	Folder 2
1937-1964	ILGWU, Auditing Dept.	Box 21	Folder 3
	I.c.w. Siemon L. Hamburger.
1953-1964	ILGWU, Auditing Dept.	Box 21	Folder 4
1944-1952	ILGWU, Campaign Committee	Box 21	Folder 5
1936-1941	ILGWU, Education Dept.	Box 21	Folder 6
	Corres. w. Mark Starr, forms, printed material.
1942-1949	ILGWU, Education Dept.	Box 21	Folder 7
	Incl. corres., programs & printed material on ILGWU Institute at Madison University School for Workers.
1950-1951	ILGWU, Education Dept.	Box 21	Folder 8
1952-1955	ILGWU, Education Dept.	Box 21	Folder 9
1956-1957	ILGWU, Education Dept.	Box 22	Folder 1
1954-1955	ILGWU. Justice	Box 22	Folder 2
	1954-June 1955. M. Bialis reports to Justice on Midwest Area.
1955-1956	ILGWU. Justice	Box 22	Folder 3
	July 1955-56.
1957	ILGWU. Justice	Box 22	Folder 4
1960-1963	ILGWU, Justice	Box 22	Folder 5
1966-1970	ILGWU. Justice	Box 22	Folder 6
1947-1954	ILGWU, Legal Dept.	Box 22	Folder 7
1944-1947	ILGWU, Management-Engineering Dept.	Box 22	Folder 8
	Reports on firms & corres. w. William Gomberg.
1948-1955	ILGWU, Management-Engineering Dept.	Box 22	Folder 9
1949-1954	ILGWU, Political Dept.	Box 23	Folder 1
1955-1961	ILGWU, Political Dept.	Box 23	Folder 3
1939-1941	ILGWU, Research Dept.	Box 23	Folder 3
	Corres., reports re firms & negotiations.
1942-1955	ILGWU, Research Dept.	Box 23	Folder 4
1950-1954	ILGWU, Training Institute	Box 23	Folder 5
	I.c.w. Arthur A. Elder.
1955-1960	ILGWU, Training Institute	Box 23	Folder 6
	I.c.w. Jack Sessions.
1934-1947	ILGWU, Frederick F. Umhey	Box 23	Folder 7
1951-1955	ILGWU, Frederick F. Umhey	Box 23	Folder 8
1959-1967	ILGWU, Union Label Dept.	Box 23	Folder 9
1951-1954	ILGWU, Welfare and Health Benefits Dept.	Box 24	Folder 1
1941-1951	Jewish Appeal, Combined, Chicago	Box 24	Folder 2
1946-1955	Jewish Labor Committee	Box 24	Folder 3
1956-1964	Jewish Labor Committee	Box 24	Folder 4
1938-1945	Kirshbaum-Helbraun, Inc.	Box 24	Folder 5
1940	Labor's Non-Partisan League	Box 24	Folder 6
1938-1947	Lieberman, Elias	Box 24	Folder 7
1937-1956	Locals, Chicago Misc.	Box 24	Folder 8
1934	Local 59	Box 24	Folder 9
	Incl. minutes.
1936-1937	Local 74, Dress Patternmakers of Chicago	Box 24	Folder 10
	Local 76, Chicago	Box 24	Folder 11
	Local 76 & 261
1938-1940	Local 76	Box 24	Folder 12
	Minutes & reports.
1941	Local 76	Box 25	Folder 1
	Minutes & reports.
1944-1945	Local 76	Box 25	Folder 2
	Minutes & reports.
1941-1957	Local 100, Chicago	Box 25	Folder 3
	Minutes.
1935-1940	Local 208, Chicago	Box 25	Folder 4
1940-1944	Local 212, Chicago	Box 25	Folder 5
	Incl. materials of the Wage and Hour Div., U.S. Dept. of Labor on the Embroidery Industry.
1940	Local 212	Box 25	Folder 6
	Report on the Embroidery Industry.
1935-1936	Local 212	Box 25	Folder 7
	Minutes.
1938-1941	Local 212	Box 25	Folder 8
1938-1941	Local 261, Chicago	Box 25	Folder 9
	Minutes & reports.
1944-1945	Local 261	Box 25	Folder 10
	Minutes & reports.
1942-1959	Locals 314 and 381, Chicago	Box 26	Folder 1
1937	Louis Sopkin Co.	Box 26	Folder 2
1955-1971	Madison University School for Workers	Box 26	Folder 3
	(ILGWU Region Institute)
	Manuscript. The Kraus Dress Shop by Edna Thomas (pseudonym): n.d. Chapters 1-3.	Box 26	Folder 4
	Manuscript, The Kraus Dress Shop. Chapters 4-6.	Box 26	Folder 5
	Manuscript, The Kraus Dress Shop. Chapters 7-10.	Box 26	Folder 6
1949-1950	Mayor's Commission on Human Rights	Box 26	Folder 7
1944-1955	Midwest Dept.	Box 26	Folder 8
	Office matters; incl. reports from Lou Montenegro & Norbert Ciesil.
1956-1962	Midwest Dept.	Box 26	Folder 9
1954-1958	Midwest ILGWU Campaign Committee	Box 26	Folder 10
1960	Midwest ILGWU Campaign Committee	Box 26	Folder 11
1915	Minutes, Arbitration Board on Working Conditions in the Chicago Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry	Box 27
	Sept, 1915. 2 vols. Julian W. Mack (chairman).
1914-1915	Minutes, Chicago Joint Board	Box 28	Folder 1
	Aug, 1914-Feb, 1915. 1 vol.
1934	Minutes, Chicago Jt. Bd.	Box 28	Folder 2
	Mar. -April 1934.
1946-1947	Minutes, Chicago Jt. Bd.	Box 28	Folder 3
1948-1949	Minutes, Chicago Jt. Bd.	Box 28	Folder 4
1950-1951	Minutes, Chicago Jt. Bd.	Box 28	Folder 5
1952-1953	Minutes, Chicago Jt. Bd.	Box 28	Folder 6
1954-1955	Minutes, Chicago Jt. Bd.	Box 28	Folder 7
1956-1958	Minutes, Chicago Jt. Bd.	Box 28	Folder 8
1959-1961	Minutes, Chicago Jt. Bd.	Box 28	Folder 9
1962-1965	Minutes, Chicago Jt. Bd.	Box 29	Folder 1
1966-1969	Minutes, Chicago Jt. Bd.	Box 29	Folder 2
1970-1971	Minutes, Chicago Jt. Bd.	Box 29	Folder 3
1972-1974	Minutes, Chicago Jt. Bd.	Box 29	Folder 4
1975	Minutes, Chicago Jt. Bd.	Box 29	Folder 5
1950-1962	Minutes, Cloak and Suit Makers Retirement Fund	Box 29	Folder 6
	Incl. financial statements.
1946-1968	Minutes, Coat and Suit Union Health Fund	Box 29	Folder 7
	Incl. agreements and financial statements.
1952-1963	Minutes and Agreements pox Valley Retirement Fund	Box 29	Folder 8
1951-1954	Minutes, Chicago Health Center	Box 29	Folder 9
	Incl. agreements & financial statements.
1955-1959	Minutes, Chicago Health Center	Box 30	Folder 1
	Incl. agreements & financial statements.
1947-1968	Minutes, Joint Board Dress Workers Health Fund	Box 30	Folder 2
	Incl. agreements & financial statements.
1950-1962	Minutes, Joint Board Dress Workers Retirement Fund	Box 30	Folder 3
	Incl. financial statements.
1950-1961	Minutes, Joint Board Dress Workers Welfare Fund	Box 30	Folder 4
	Incl. agreements & financial statements.
1953-1972	Minutes, Midwestern ILGWU Health Fund	Box 30	Folder 5
1954-1956	Minutes, Midwest ILGWU Retirement Fund	Box 30	Folder 6
	Incl. agreements & financial statements.
1957-1965	Minutes, Midwest ILGWU Retirement Fund	Box 30	Folder 7
	Incl. agreements & financial statements.
1946-1968	Minutes, Out-of-Town Cloak Health Fund	Box 30	Folder 8
	Incl. agreements.
1953-1960	Minutes	Box 30	Folder 9
	Incl. agreements bet. Union affiliates & associations.
1948-1957	Minutes, United-Union Dressmakers Health and Welfare Funds	Box 30	Folder 10
	Incl. agreements & financial statements.
1932-1934	Miscellaneous Correspondence	Box 31	Folder 1
1935-1936	Misc. Corres.	Box 31	Folder 2
1937-1939	Misc. Corres.	Box 31	Folder 3
1940	Misc. Corres.	Box 31	Folder 4
1941	Misc. Corres.	Box 31	Folder 5
	Jan-Sept, 1941.
1941-1943	Misc. Corres.	Box 31	Folder 6
	Oct, 1941-43.
1944	Misc. Corres.	Box 31	Folder 7
1945	Misc. Corres.	Box 31	Folder 8
	Jan. -Sept, 1945.
1945-1946	Misc. Corres.	Box 31	Folder 9
	Oct, 1945-46.
1947-1949	Misc. Corres.	Box 32	Folder 1
	1947-Apr, 1949.
1949-1951	Misc. Corres.	Box 32	Folder 2
	May 1949-June 1951.
1951-1954	Misc. Corres.	Box 32	Folder 3
	July 1951-54.
1955-1971	Misc. Corres.	Box 32	Folder 4
1953-1963	The Moordale Corporation	Box 32	Folder 5
1944-1958	National Coat and Suit Industry Recovery Board	Box 32	Folder 6
1937-1941	National Labor Relations Board	Box 32	Folder 7
	1948. Corres., printed material on elections & cases before NLRB.
1942-1944	National War Labor Board	Box 32	Folder 8
1956-1958	The Needle	Box 32	Folder 9
	Published by misc. Union locals, Chicago.
1943-1945	Negotiations	Box 32	Folder 10
1937-1941	New York Handkerchief Mfg. Co.	Box 33	Folder 1
	Incl. corres., elections, printed material & case before the NLRB.
1937-1941	N.Y. Handkerchief Mfg. Co.	Box 33	Folder 2
	Cont'd.
1937-1941	N.Y. Hankerchief Mfg. Co.	Box 33	Folder 3
	Cont'd.
1937-1941	N.Y. Handkerchief Mfg. Co.	Box 33	Folder 4
	Cont'd.
1936-1954	New York Joint Boards and Miscellaneous Locals	Box 33	Folder 5
1955-1961	New York Miscellaneous Locals	Box 33	Folder 6
1924-1927	North-West Ladies' Mfrs. Association	Box 33	Folder 7
1942	Pesotta, Rose	Box 33	Folder 8
1969	Phil Maid Lingerie, Inc.	Box 33	Folder 9
	Pledge for New Members of the Union. n.d.	Box 33	Folder 10
1959-1960	Political-Education Dept.: Midwest Region	Box 33	Folder 12
	Philip B. Oliver reports.
1940-1945	Plotkin, Abraham	Box 33
	Personal.
1940-1953	Politics, Local and National	Box 34	Folder 1
1956-1963	Politics	Box 34	Folder 2
1963-1969	Politics	Box 34	Folder 3
1935-1936	Publications	Box 34	Folder 4
	Sept, 1935-Aug, 1936. The Emancipator, Milwaukee. Wisc.
1936-1943	Publications	Box 34	Folder 5
	Sept, 1936-Sept, 1943. The Emancipator, Milwaukee, Wisc.
1942-1943	Publications	Box 34	Folder 6
	Good News.
1930-1939	Publications	Box 34	Folder 7
	Our Justice & Our Aim.
1935-1949	Publications	Box 34	Folder 8
	Our Voice.
	Publications and Printed Material	Box 34	Folder 9
	Miscellaneous.
	Publications and Printed Material	Box 34	Folder 10
1946	Rhea Garment Mfg. Co., Milwaukee, Wise.	Box 35	Folder 1
1941-1944	Rivera, Diego	Box 35	Folder 2
1948-1971	Roosevelt University	Box 35	Folder 3
1940-1945	Rufer, Harry	Box 35	Folder 4
	Personal.
1950-1953	S and Z Manufacturing Co.	Box 35	Folder 5
1939-1944	Schwartz, Harold	Box 35	Folder 6
	Corres. w. Morris Bialis & Abraham Plotkin on negotiations & legal natters.
1945-1958	Schwartz, Harold	Box 35	Folder 7
	Incl. corres. re Union activities.
1959-1960	Schwartz, Harold	Box 35	Folder 8
1961-1966	Schwartz, Harold	Box 35	Folder 9
1939-1953	Smoler Bros., Inc.	Box 36	Folder 1
1942-1945	Soldiers File	Box 36	Folder 2
	Corres. w. Union members in the armed forces.
1945-1955	Southeastern Region	Box 36	Folder 3
	I.c.w. John S. Martin re agreement at Cullman, Ala. (Holeproof Hosiery Co. ) .
1941-1944	Speeches and Outlines	Box 36	Folder 4
	Morris Bialis & other Union officers.
1945-1957	Speeches and Outlines	Box 36	Folder 5
1937-1939	Statistics on Earnings (Wages) in the Garment Industry	Box 36	Folder 6
1956-1961	Stulberg, Louis	Box 36	Folder 7
	Corres. bet. Morris Bialis & Louis Stulberg on Union activities.
1962-1966	Stulberg, Louis	Box 36	Folder 8
1967-1969	Stulberg, Louis	Box 36	Folder 9
1970-1972	Stulberg, Louis	Box 37	Folder 1
1973-1974	Stulberg, Louis	Box 37	Folder 2
1938-1941	Style Piracy Cases	Box 37	Folder 3
1940-1958	Treasury Dept.	Box 37	Folder 4
	Bond drives.
1939	Twenty-fifth Anniversary Celebration, Chicago Joint Board	Box 37	Folder 5
1940	Universal Christian Council	Box 37	Folder 6
1952	With These Hands	Box 37	Folder 7
	Showing.
	Photographs.	Box 37	Folder 8

Guide to the ILGWU. Chicago Joint Board Records,1914-1975

Collection Number: 5780/044

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Guide to the ILGWU. Chicago Joint Board Records,
1914-1975

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