Guide to the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Records,
1906-1985

Collection Number: 5780

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
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Cornell University
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kheel_center@cornell.edu
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel
Compiled by:
Kheel Center Staff
Date completed:
2002
EAD encoding:
Casey Westerman, April 2002

© 2002 Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Records, 1906-1985 [bulk 1923-1984].
Collection Number:
5780
Creator:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Quantity:
888.6 linear feet.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
Abstract:
Archives of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) which document the history of the most significant labor union representing workers in the women's garment industry in the United States and Canada.

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The ILGWU was founded in New York City in 1900 by Jewish, Italian, and some Scots-Irish and Irish immigrants. The Union sought to unite the various crafts in its rapidly growing industry to increase their mutual strength. There was early resistance to the ILGWU from the garment manufacturers with whom they collectively bargained. There were also challenges to the Union's domination of the trade by the Industrial Workers of the World and by Daniel DeLeon's Socialist Trades and Labor Alliance.
By 1917, the ILGWU had defeated its rivals. Through a combination of militant and impassioned work stoppages lead by its more radical members and vigorous organizing and negotiation, the Union had also consolidated its power, greatly improved working conditions for its members and created the mechanism for arbitrating disputes and grievances under a labor-management agreement known as the Protocol of Peace. In 1919, the ILGWU became the first American union to negotiate an unemployment compensation fund that was contributed to by its employers.
The momentum of the previous two decades, however, was nearly lost to politically inspired intraunion warfare in the 1920's. Under its newly elected President Morris Sigman, the Union's General Executive Board disbanded left-wing groups within the Union in 1923, charging that they were communist cells. The radicals within the Union formed the Joint Action Committee to coordinate their battle with the parent Union. The issue came to a head in 1926 during a bitter and costly Cloakmaker's strike. Mismanaged by the communist leadership in the local, the strike plunged the International eight hundred thousand dollars into debt. The chaos caused by the strike and the subsequent expulsion of communists from the Union left it greatly weakened. Sigman resigned in 1928 and was succeeded by Benjamin Schlesinger, who had previously lead the Union between 1914-1923. He remained as President until a fatal illness forced him to resign in 1932.
Despite the political turmoil during the 1920's, the ILGWU pioneered in the establishment of an extremely progressive health care program for its members which included not only regional Union Health Centers but the establishment of a resort for union workers first located in Massachusetts, later in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, 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 continuation education in such basic skills as citizenship and the English language. The ILGWU also offered its members a forum for their social activities--sponsoring such activities as sports teams and even a mandolin orchestra.
In 1932, David Dubinsky was elected President of the ILGWU. Dubinsky and the ILGWU (then 200,000 strong) were to play an important role in fostering industrial unionism in the United States by encouraging the formation of the Committee for Industrial Organization. The Union would be an important political force in New York City and State politics and in the Democratic Party and Liberal Party as well. Dubinsky and his union were also instrumental in the decade-long effort to bring the plight of European Jews suffering under Nazi persecution to the attention of the world through the efforts of the Jewish Labor Committee. The ILGWU leadership included a number of significant figures in labor history in addition to Dubinsky. Among these were former presidents Benjamin Schlesinger, Morris Sigman, Louis Stulberg, and Sol Chaikin. The names of many of the union's other officials such as Luigi Antonini, Charles Zimmerman, Rose Pesotta, Frederick F. Umhey, Julius Hochman, Fannia M. Cohn, Isidore Nagler, Gus Tyler, and Leon Stein, are also well known to historians. In the period following the Second World War, the union suffered a decline in membership due to the movement of shops from the urban centers in the northeast to the south to avoid unionization and to take advantage of less expensive labor. The ethnic and racial character of the ILGWU also changed as European immigrants were supplanted by Asians, Latin Americans and immigrants from the Caribbean.
The Union's African-American membership was also to greatly grow during this period. In recent years, despite vigorous efforts by union activists to limit such activities, garment manufacturers were to export their manufacturing abroad, taking advantage of cheap third world labor supplies and further cutting the membership base of the union.
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.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This broadly representative and substantial collection of union records was initially assembled as an internal ILGWU archives by Henoch Medelsund, Vice President and General Manager of the New York Cloak Joint Board and was maintained by the Union under his supervision for over a decade before the records were transferred to Cornell. The records include substantial historical documentation from most of its key officers, every department of the national union and many of its most important regional units, joint boards and locals. The heart of the collection is the papers of David Dubinsky (153 linear feet). In addition to the correspondence, minutes, and publications, the ILGWU archives contains union and garment industry work artifacts and memorabilia, audio-visual materials and a substantial series of historical photographs.
ARRANGEMENT

Arranged by series and sub-series, thereafter dictated by provenance.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Sigman, Morris.
Schlesinger, Benjamin, 1876-1932.
Dubinsky, David, 1892-
Stulberg, Louis.
Chaikin, Sol.
Antonini, Luigi, 1883-1968.
Zimmerman, Charles S., 1896-1983.
Pesotta, Rose, 1896-
Cohn, Fannia Mary, 1885-1962.
Nagler, Isidore, 1895-
Tyler, Gus.
Stein, Leon, 1912-
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Unity House.
American Federation of Labor. Committee for Industrial Organization.
Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.)
Democratic Party (N.Y.)
Liberal Party of New York State.

Subjects:
Trade-unions -- Clothing workers -- United States -- History.
Trade-unions -- Clothing workers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Clothing workers -- United States -- History.
Clothing workers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Clothing trade -- United States -- History.
Clothing trade -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Jews -- Employment -- United States -- History.
Jews -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Italian Americans -- Employment -- United States -- History.
Italian Americans -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Afro-Americans -- Employment -- History.
Afro-Americans -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Trade-union health centers -- United States.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Access Restrictions:
Access to the ILGWU Records is restricted. Materials created prior to twenty years from the current date are open to researchers only with prior written permission from UNITE; 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.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union records, #5780. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
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6036. ILGWU related collections
Description
Container
5780/001. Local 10. Minutes, 1906-1973.
5780/002. David Dubinsky. President's records, 1932-1966.
5780/003. Louis Stulberg. General Secretary-Treasurer's correspondence, 1956-1966.
The Stulberg General Secretary-Treasurer records consist primarily of correspondence dealing with union managerial matters during Stulberg's term in office, though there is also some correspondence from his tenure as executive vice-president (April 1956-May 1959), as well as a small amount (ca. 1 linear foot) of personal correspondence in the collection. Among the most signficant topics are: civil rights (including materials on the 1963 March on Washington); collective bargaining agreements with other unions (custodial and clerical workers' unions); health care (including Medstore plan for prescription drug discounts to union health members); housing for garment workers in New York City; locals, regional departments, and joint boards of the ILGWU throughout the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico; relations with the AFL-CIO; retirement funds; union administrative matters; union conventions; union involvement in politics in New York City and New York State; and workers' compensation.
5780/004. Louis Stulberg. President's records, 1945-1977, 1966-1975 (bulk).
The Stulberg presidential records consist of correspondence, memoranda, photographs, speeches and subject files primarily dealing with union matters during Stulberg's term in office, though there are some personal materials in the collection as well. Topics covered include: civil rights; dealings with garment manufacturers; international labor activities; locals and regional departments of the ILGWU throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Canada; minority membership in the ILGWU; relations with other unions; strikes and other labor disputes; union administrative matters; union conventions; union involvement in politics and government, especially in New York City and New York State; retirees' benefits, scholarships; union organizing; and wages.
5780/005. Frederick F. Umhey. Executive Secretary's correspondence, 1934-1955.
The Umhey Executive Secretary records consist primarily of organizational records, subject files, and correspondence dealing with union administrative matters. Much of the collection is made up of routine correspondence. There is, however, significant material documenting such ILGWU activities as the annual convention, Union Health Center, Unity House (the ILGWU resort), and Unity Broadcasting Corporation, which owned a number of radio stations across the country. In addition, the collection contains correspondence with government officials about labor situations in the garment industry during World War II, and information about health care, benefits, and pensions for workers. Some of Umhey's personal records are also included.
5780/006. Morris Sigman. President's records, 1923-1928.
The collection consists of correspondence, subject files, form letters, circulars, speeches and other items from Morris Sigman's term as ILGWU president. Among the topics covered are: communist activity in the ILGWU, and the leadership's battle against a communist takeover of the union; conditions in the U.S. garment industry, particularly in New York City; education for workers; inter- and intra-union relations; ILGWU locals, with an emphasis on the New York City area; strikes in the garment industry (in particular the Cloakmakers' strike of 1926), as well as in other industries; life and unemployment insurance for union members; relations with other garment workers' unions in the U.S., Great Britain, Poland and the Soviet Union, and with the International Clothing Workers' Federation in Amsterdam; relations with the garment manufacturers; unemployment insurance; union legal matters; and union organizing activities.
5780/007. Local 82. Examiners and Floor Workers' Union. Minutes, 1917-1970.
5780/008. Local 10. Amalgamated Ladies Garment Cutters Union. Dues books, 1904-1911.
5780/009. Benjamin Schlesinger. President's records, 1914-1923.
Correspondence, form letters, circulars and subject files relating to Schlesinger's term, 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; discussions with foreign garment workers' unions; education for workers in New York City; and Jewish war relief efforts during World War I.
5780/010. Benjamin Schlesinger. President's records, 1928-1932.
Correspondence and subject files relating to Schlesinger's term, October 1928 to June 1932. Topics covered in these materials include: communist activity in the garment industry unions; contract negotiations; Schlesinger's role as business manager of the Jewish Daily Forward (Chicago); labor disputes in the women's garment industry of New York City; racketeering; socialism; garment industry strikes in New York City (including the 1929 Cloakmakers' Strike and the 1930 Dressmakers' Strike); the Tom Mooney Defense Committee; relations between manufacturers' associations and the union; union conventions; union elections; union finances; and worker education.
5780/011. Local 10. Amalgamated Ladies Garment Cutters Union. Isidore Nagler. Managers' correspondence, 1939-1952.
5780/012. Local 10. Amalgamated Ladies Garment Cutters Union. Moe Falikman. Managers' correspondence, 1952-1968.
5780/013. Local 9. Cloak and Suit Finishers' Union. Managers' correspondence, 1933-1951.
5780/014. Local 22. Dressmaker's Union. Charles S. Zimmerman. Secretary-Manager's papers, 1919-1958, 1920-1945 (bulk).
The Charles Zimmerman papers consist primarily of correspondence, reports, minutes, newspaper clippings, and broadsides dealing with his activities as a leader in Local 22 (in Series I), as well as his other union and political activities (in Series II). Among the most significant material in the collection is correspondence documenting Zimmerman's activities with the Communist Party in the U.S. and its various factions and splinter groups, as well as other political organizations and figures. Correspondents include Jay Lovestone and William Z. Foster; there is also considerable material dealing with the Communist Party of the U.S.A. and the "Majority Group," or Lovestone faction. Other political parties represented include the American Labor Party, the Liberal Party (New York State), and the Socialist Party.
5780/014 P. Local 22. Dressmaker's Union. Charles S. Zimmerman. Photographs, 1910-1958.
5780/015. Local 22. Dressmaker's Union. Papers, 1920-1933.
5780/016. General Executive Board. Minutes, 1913-1995.
5780/017. Local 9. Cloak and Suit Finishers' Union. Minutes, 1914-1944.
5780/018. General Executive Board. Appeal Committee Cases, 1926-1956.
5780/019. Local 38. Theatrical Workers' Union. Minutes, 1920-1959.
5780/020. New York Cloak Joint Board and Cloak Out-of-Town Department. Records, 1926-1973.
The New York Cloak Joint Board records consist of articles, correspondence, reports, photographs, and other items. The bulk of the collection is made up of correspondence of three of its managers, Israel Feinberg, Isidore Nagler, and Henoch Mendelsund. There are also some records from the Cloak Out-of-Town Department. These items primarily document concerns of the New York Cloak Joint Board from the 1930 through the 1960s. Much of the material is administrative or routine in nature. Topics addressed include: benefits (especially health insurance and retirement funds); contract negotiations; financial matters; jurisdictional disputes between locals and between the ILGWU and other unions; ILGWU conventions; legal matters; other ILGWU departments and locals; political activity (at both the national and local level); relations with garment manufacturers; union organizing; wages; and worker education. There are also items concerning international labor activities, proposed legislation in the U.S. and in New York State, and aid to Israel.
5780/021. Local 62. Undergarment and Negligee Workers' Union. Records, 1922-1963.
5780/022. Local 62. Undergarment and Negligee Workers' Union. Correspondence, 1930-1976, 1935-1965 (bulk).
The Local 62 correspondence consists primarily of letters of Samuel Shore and Louis Stulberg, the managers of the Local during much of the period. There are also articles, photographs, reports, and other materials in the collection. These items primarily document the activities and concerns of the Local's leadership from the depression years through the 1960s. The bulk of the material deals with Local administrative matters, benefits, garment manufacturers, other ILGWU departments and locals, political activity (at both the national and local level), relations with other unions, union organizing, wages, and working conditions in the shops. It is mostly restricted to New York City. In addition, there is some personal correspondence of both Shore and Stulberg.
5780/023. Local 89. Italian Dressmakers' Union. Luigi Antonini. General Secretary's correspondence, 1919-1968, 1930-1960 (bulk).
Correspondence, speeches, and subject files covering Luigi Antonini's activities, both within and outside of the ILGWU, from the 1920s to the 1960s. The correspondence documents many of Antonini's most significant contributions to the ILGWU, the post-war Italian labor movement, and politics in New York State and the U.S. Included in the collection are materials relating to Antonini's role in the ILGWU, especially in union administrative matters; documentation of his involvement in building a free labor movement in post-war Italy; items dealing with his activities in the American Labor Party and the Liberal Party of New York; and items that highlight his role in anti-fascist organizations before and during the Second World War.
5780/024. Local 89. Italian Dressmakers' Union. Minutes.
5780/025. Local 262. Union de la Robe. Minutes, 1943-1970.
5780/026. Local 315. Embroidery, Pleaters, Stitchers and Button Makers' Union. Minutes, 1937-1963.
5780/027. Local 205. Dress Cutters' Union. Minutes, 1935-1967.
5780/028. Locals 19, 43, 61, 112, 342, 438, 584, and 592. Montreal and Quebec. Minutes, 1936-1974.
5780/029. Montreal Joint Board. Minutes, 1945-1968.
5780/030. Montreal Joint Council. Records, 1936-1963.
5780/031. Local 35. Coat, Suit, Sportswear and Allied Garment Pressers Union. Records, 1927-1977.
5780/032. New York Cloak and Dressmakers Joint Board. Records, 1926-1977.
5780/033. New York Dress Joint Board. Minutes, 1922-1976.
5780/034. Local 117. Cloak, Suit, Infants' and Childrens' Coat Operators and Sample Makers' Union. Minutes, 1936-1949, 1960-1973.
5780/035. Local 40. Beltmakers' Union. Records, 1933-1977.
5780/036. Local 22. Dressmakers' Union. Minutes, 1934-1972.
5780/037. Locals 24, 39, 56, 69, and 117. Minutes, 1913-1962.
5780/038. Regional Departments. Canadian Area. Films.
5780/039. Upper South Department. Baltimore Joint Board. Records, 1937-1971.
5780/040. Local 48. Italian Cloakmakers Union. Records, 1916-1972.
5780/041. New York Cloak Joint Board. Payroll analysis. 1959-1972.
5780/042. Local 25. Ladies Waist and Dressmakers' Union. L'Operaia. Publication, 1913-1918.
5780/043. Locals 72 and 192. Toronto Dressmakers Joint Council. Records. Locals 14, 68, 83, 92, and 94. Toronto Cloak Joint Board. Records, 1928-1972.
5780/044. Chicago Joint Board. Records, 1914-1974.
5780/045. Predecessor records and local records, 1884-1948.
5780/046. Los Angeles Joint Board. Minutes, 1934-1975.
5780/046 P. Los Angeles Joint Board. Photographs, 1940-1975.
5780/047. Joint Board Dress and Waistmakers' Union of Greater New York. Managers' correspondence, 1928-1972.
5780/048. Cleveland Joint Board. Records, 1934-1956.
5780/049. Educational Department. Fannia M. Cohn. Executive Secretary's records, 1918-1962, 1920-1950 (bulk).
Correspondence, subject files, speeches, articles, photographs, and programs from Fannia Cohn's term as Executive Secretary of the ILGWU Education Department. The materials in Series I are primarily letters between Cohn and various individuals pertaining to trade union matters in general and the ILGWU in particular. Included in the series are programs for lectures, concerts, museum visits and tours of New York City that were offered to ILGWU members and others as part of the Education Department's activities.
5780/050. Northeast Department. Records, 1940-1970.
5780/051. Justice and Gerechtigkeit. Publications.
5780/052. Gus Tyler. Assistant President's records, 1952-1980, 1960-1975 (bulk).
Chiefly correspondence and articles with and by Gus Tyler from the 1950s to the 1970s. Series I consists of Tyler's correspondence. Series II is made up of subject files, dealing with both union and non-union matters. Series III contains both correspondence with and articles by Tyler. Individuals represented include: Abraham Beame; Sol Chaikin; Wilbur Daniels; David Dubinsky; Arthur J. Goldberg; Andrew M. Greeley; Averell Harriman; Hubert Humphrey; Jay Lovestone; George McGovern; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Charles Silberman; Leon Stein; Philip Taft; and Abraham Weiss.
5780/053. Local 105. Snowsuits, Infants', Sportswear and Novelty. Records, 1939-1970, 1950-1970 (bulk).
The Local 105 materials consist primarily of routine correspondence, reports, and minutes of executive and membership meetings. Much of the correspondence is from Martin L. Cohen, the manager-secretary of Local 105. The bulk of the material deals with administrative matters, contract negotiations, donations to (and requests for donations from) charitable organizations, health, welfare and retirement benefits, garment manufacturers, other ILGWU departments and locals, and relations with the AFL-CIO. Some of the correspondence addresses the changing ethnic makeup of the union's membership, particularly the steady increase in Hispanic workers during the 1950s and 1960s. Other items concern the adoption of children orphaned after World War II. A small amount of Martin Cohen's personal correspondence is also included.
5780/054. Local 155. Knit Goods Workers. Records, 1933-1968, 1940-1960 (bulk).
The Local 155 records consist primarily of the correspondence of Louis Nelson, manager of Local 155 during the period. There are also articles, speeches, and other materials, as well as a small amount of Nelson's personal correspondence. These items document the activities and concerns of the Local's leadership from the depression years through the late 1960s. In addition to routine Local administrative matters, the materials cover a wide variety of topics, including anti-Semitism, civil rights issues, health and retirement benefits, the women's clothing industry, New York City elections, political activities of the Local, relations with other unions, forced labor in the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War, strikes, and union elections.
5780/055. Boston Joint Board. Records, 1930-1976.
5780/056. Research Department records, 1907-1948, 1910-1940 (bulk).
Financial and administrative reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, and other materials documenting the activities and interests of the ILGWU Research Department. Much of the material concerns various strikes, including the New York cloakmakers' strikes of 1926 and 1929, as well as the "Protocol of Peace" of 1910. There are some additional items dealing with the New York Cloak Joint Board. A good portion of the material is administrative in nature.
5780/057. Local #22. Dressmaker's Union. Education Department records, 1933-1975, 1950-1970 (bulk).
The records of the Education Department of Local 22, New York City are made up of correspondence, newspaper clippings, newsletters, programs, photographs, and speeches documenting the activities of the Department from the 1930s to the 1970s. In addition to documentation of the Department's activities, there is material on the local's political involvement with the Liberal Party of New York State and some items about aid to the Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War. There are also some materials dealing with international labor cooperation, civil rights, and communism in the U.S. Correspondents include Joseph Mazur and Saby Nehama.
5780/058. Southeast Region. Records, 1937-1970.
5780/059. Local 23-25. Records, 1922-1972.
5780/060. Union Health Center records, 1911-1977, 1920-1960 (bulk).
Correspondence, annual reports, articles, financial statements, and other materials documenting the evolving role of the ILGWU Union Health Center. Much of the material is routine or administrative in nature. Other items in the collection include articles by such figures as George M. Price and Pauline Newman, the Center's director, on the issue of union health centers generally and the ILGWU Center in particular.
5780/061. Letters, printed material, and cases, 1895-1969.
5780/062. International Relations Department. Henoch Mendelsund. Director's records, 1968-1980, 1975-1980 (bulk).
The International Relations Department records consist chiefly of the correspondence of its director, Henoch Mendlesund, during his tenure from 1968-1980. The collection also includes articles, reports, conference materials, photographs, and other items. The materials in this collection have an emphasis on labor issues in the developing world. There is correspondence with leaders of clothing and textile workers' unions in India, Japan, Turkey, Kenya, Latin America, Namibia, South Korea, among other countries. Other items concern conventions and conferences of the ILGWU that emphasized international issues, visits from foreign union leaders to the ILGWU, and visits of ILGWU leaders to foreign countries. There are also some materials about garment workers' unions in Western Europe. Topics addressed include working conditions, human rights, economic, political, and social conditions in developing countries, and requests for aid to assist foreign unions.
5780/063. Legal files.
5780/064. Local 89. Italian Dress and Waistmakers' Union. Minutes, 1919-1971.
5780/065. San Francisco Joint Board. Records, 1930-1969.
5780/066. Local 91. Children's Dress and Infant's Wear Union. Records.
5780/067. Local 22. Dressmaker's Union. Israel Breslow. Manager's records.
5780/068. Local 66. Executive Board records, 1922-1959.
5780/069. Leon Stein collection.
5780/070. "Ladies' Garment Worker". Publication, 1911-1917.
5780/071. Local 25. Ladies' Waist and Dressmakers Union. "The Message". Publication, 1913-1918.
5780/072. Constitutions and dues books.
5780/074. Mary Goff Shuster records.
5780/075. Agreements.
5780/075 mf. Collective bargaining agreements. Microfilm.
5780/076. Local 132. Plastic, Moulders and Novelty Workers' Union. Managers' correspondence. Joel Menist and Sam Eisenberg. 1961-1973.
5780/077. Local 98. Rubberized Plastic Fabric Workers' Union. Herbert Pokodner. Mangers' records. Executive Board Minutes, 1938-1970.
5780/078. Research Department. Reports, 1938- .
5780/079. Local 62. Undergarment and Negligee Workers' Union. Matthew Schoenwald. Managers' correspondence.
5780/080. Convention transcripts, 1978-1992.
5780/081. Legal Department. Files, 1928-1982.
5780/082. James Lipsig. Assistant Executive Secretary's records, 1948-1978.
5780/083. Sol C. Chaikin papers, 1940-1986.
5780/084. Wilbur Daniels. Papers, 1965-1987.
5780/085. Legal Department. National War Labor Board case files, 1936-1946.
5780/086. Educational Department. Jasper Peyton records, 1963-1982.
5780/087. Leon Stein records.
5780/087 mf. Triangle fire trial transcript and summary. Microfilm, 1911.
5780/087 P. Leon Stein. Photographs.
5780/088. Gus Tyler. Records, 1958-1981.
5780/089. Local 62-32. Intimate Apparel, Embroidery, Belt and Allied Workers Local. Agreements, 1966-1981.
5780/090. Central Pennsylvania District. Photographs, publications and newspapers. 1940-1976.
5780/094. Local 10. Amalgamated Ladies Garment Cutters Union. Membership record book, 1911-1915.
5780/095. Local 23-25. Blouse, Skirt, and Sportswear Workers. Records, 1984-1994.
5780/096. Gus Tyler. Records, 1959-1996 [bulk 1975-1995].
Correspondence, subject files, articles, transcripts of broadcasts, photographs, and other materials dating from the end of the 1950s to 1996. Series I consists of both ILGWU and non-union correspondence. Series II is made up of subject files, dealing with both union and non-union matters. Series III contains publications, writings, transcripts of radio and television broadcasts, and other materials. Series IV consists of miscellaneous materials, including photographs, cassette tapes, and ILGWU publications.
5780/097. Susan Cowell. Vice President's records, 1982-1995.
5780/098. Paintings and memorabilia, 1952-1979.
5780/099. Retiree Service Department. David Dubinsky records, 1968-1982.
5780/101. Midwest Region. Records.
5780/102 P. Justice. Photographs, 1910-1990.
5780/103. Political Department. Records, 1962-1983.
5780/104. David Dubinsky Foundation. Records.
5780/105. Research Department. Lazare Teper. Records.
5780/106. Education Department. Beverly Schulman. Records.
5780/107. Legal Department. Siems-Kellwood records.
5780/109. Broadsides, 1907-1980.
5780/110 OHT. Oral history transcripts, 1966-1986.
5780/111. Archives Department. Records.
5780/112. Exhibit display panels.
5780/113. Wilbur Daniels. Assistant to the President. Records, 1967-1973.
5780/114. Apparel, Job Training, Research. Files.
5780/115. Western States Region. Records, 1949-1975.
5780/116. Montreal Joint Board. Records.
5780/117. Quebec Joint Council. Records.
5780/118. Management Engineering. Reports. 1941-1982 [bulk 1941-1942].
5780/119. Political Department. Evy Dubrow. Records.
5780/120. Western Massachusetts District records.
5780/121. Publications.
5780/122. Unity House. Files, 1971-1993.
5780/123. Research Department. Files.
5780/124. Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers. Current Bulletin and Weekly Market Letter. Publication, 1939-1953.
5780/125. Photographs, publications and ad boards.
5780/126. James Lipsig. Assistant Executive Secretary's files, 1946-1970.
5780/127. America's Next Great Designer Competition. Scrapbooks, 1968, 1975-1982.
5780/128. Women's Wear Daily scrapbooks, 1977-1985.
5780/129. Local 155. Records, 1971-1972.
5780/130. Local 153. Files, 1953.
5780/131. Local 10. Amalgamated Ladies Garment Cutters Union. Files, 1971.
5780/132. Local 226. Files, 1946-1973
5780/133. Local 75. Files, 1950-1953.
5780/134 TR. Audiocassettes.
5780/135. Sol Chaikin, The First Year. Presentation volume, 1975-1976.
5780/136. David Dubinsky. Scrapbooks, 1940, 1955.
5780/137. Dress and Cloak Makers Joint Board. Records, 1933, 1940.
5780/138. Education Department. Kitty Krupat files, 1990-1995.
5780/139 mf. L'Operaia. Microfilm, 1913-1919.
5780/140. Library, selected material.
5780/142. Political and Legislative Department. Evelyn Dubrow files, 1985-1995.
5780/143. James Parrott. Executive Assistant to the President. Files, 1980-1991.
5780/144. Organizing Department. Files, 1979-1989.
5780/145. Association Agreements, Out of business contracts, 1914-1994.
5780/146. Master Agreements, Out of business contracts, 1941-1994.
5780/147. Independents, Out of business contracts, 1943-1995.
5780/148. Research Department. Wages and hours files, 1938-1942, 1950-1975.
5780/150. Carl Proper. Executive Assistant to the President. Files, 1975-1994.
5780/151. Professional and Clerical Employees (PACE) files, 1976-1990.
5780/152. David Melman. Executive Assistant to the President. Files, 1974-1992.
5780/153. Local #91. Children's Dress, Infant's Wear, Dress and Bathrobe Makers Union. David Dubinsky presentation volume, May 1940.
5780/154. President's office. Files, 1981-1985.
5780/155. Wilbur Daniels. Assistant to the President. Files, 1977-1985.
5780/156. Vice President. Files, 1979-1981.
5780/157. Midwest region office. Files, 1970-1995.
5780/158. Out of business contracts, 1988-1998.
5780/159. Abraham Rosenberg. Memoirs of a Cloak Maker. Papers and microfilm, 1883-1910.
5780/160. Scrapbooks, 1910-1958.
5780/161. Cloak Joint Board. Governor's Advisory Commission. Files, 1924-26, 1956-59.
5780/162. Donnelly Garment Company v. ILGWU. Legal documents, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1942.
5780/163. Research Department. US National Industry Recovery Administration (NIRA) Hearings files, 1933-1937.
5780/164. Joint Board shop lists, 1924-29, 1936-49, 1954.
5780/165. Governor Smith's hearings and arbitration with various associations, files, 1924.
5780/166. Education Department. Files, 1920-1979.
5780/167. Unpublished union histories, 1911-1971.
5780/168. Research Department. Files, 1890-1971.
5780/169. Local Publications, 1914-1975.
5780/170. People v. Benedict Macri. Legal transcripts and scrapbook, 1949-1957.
Collection consists of materials pertaining to the 1949 murder of William Lurye, an organizer for the ILGWU, and the 1951 trial of Benedict Macri, who was acquitted of the crime. Documents include a scrapbook of news clippings on the case, a wanted poster for the fugitive suspect John Giusto, and the court transcript of Macri's trial.
5780/171. Union Health Center. Publications, 1912-1986.
5780/172. Canadian Publications, 1936-1984.
5780/173. Gold Bond Certificates, 1928-1932.
5780/174. Cleveland Office. Files, 1914-1921.
5780/175. Termination analysis log books, 1979-1980.
5780/176. Communications Department. Clippings files, 1987-1995.
5780/176 P. Communications Department. Photographs.
5780/177. Communications Department. Biography Files.
5780/177 P. Communications Department. Photographs.
5780/178. Charles Zimmerman, collector. Radical pamphlets.
5780/179. David Dubinsky. Memorabilia.
5780/180. Justice. Index, 1947-1979.
5780/182. Arbitration proceedings and Joint Board minutes, 1913-1917.
5780/183. Ohio-Kentucky Region.
5780/183 AV. Ohio-Kentucky Region. Audio-Visual Materials.
5780/183 P. Ohio-Kentucky Region. Photographs.
5780/184. Training Institute. Evaluation Forms, ca. 1951-1965.
5780/185 mf. Gerechtigkeit (Justice), 1919-1957. Microfilm.
5780/186 mf. Giustizia (Justice), 1919-1946. Microfilm.
5780 AV. Audiovisual collection.
5780 F. Films.
5780 MB. Memorabilia.
5780 O. Oversized items.
5780 P. Photographs.
5780 Perm. Permanent exhibit.
5780 PUBS. Publications.