The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was once one of the largest labor unions in the United States founded in 1900 by local union delegates representing about 2,000 members in cities in the northeastern United States. It was one of the first U.S. Unions to have a membership consisting of mostly females, and it played a key role in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s. The union is generally referred to as the "ILGWU" or the "ILG". The ILGWU grew in geographical scope, membership size, and political influence to become one of the most powerful forces in American organized labor by mid-century. Representing workers in the women's garment industry, the ILGWU worked to improve working and living conditions of its members through collective bargaining agreements, training programs, health care facilities, cooperative housing, educational opportunities, and other efforts. The ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union in 1995 to form the Union of Needle trades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). UNITE merged with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) in 2004 to create a new union known as UNITE HERE. The two unions that formed UNITE in 1995 represented only 250,000 workers between them, down from the ILGWU's peak membership of 450,000 in 1969.
Beginning in 1900, manufacturers of shirtwaists branched out and began to create dresses. Local 25 Ladies' Waist Makers' Union was chartered in 1905 after the reorganization of unsuccessful locals. By 1908, there were over 600 waist and dress shops in New York employing over 30,000 workers. Long hours of 56 hour weeks, overtime, low pay, and rampant sub-contracting led to agitation among the poorly treated women workers. Smaller strikes throughout 1909 over the intolerable conditions paved the way for a meeting at Cooper Union on November 22. Thousands filled the hall when 23 year old Clara Lemlich, a striker on a picket line, rose to spoke and called for a general strike. The "Uprising of Twenty Thousand" involved waist makers from New York, Brooklyn, and Brownsville. Amidst hunger, cold, imprisonment, and unscrupulous bosses, the women on the picket lines continued their fight, the strike lasting fourteen weeks until February 15, 1910. While not a complete success, the strike did result in individual contracts, higher wages, and a large increase in union membership. As the industry expanded over the years, so did the union, becoming Local 25 Waist and Dress Makers' Union, which would soon become the biggest local in the union. In the beginning of 1913, another strike involved 30,000 workers and resulted in a collective agreement. Workers left their shops again in February 1916 ending with a revised Protocol. It was also at this time that Local 25 began a summer vacation resort for its members, an idea that would soon take off with the International and become Unity House.
In 1920, Local 25 was the only local in New York for the waist and dress industry. The large size of the local made it difficult to properly control and adequately service all of the members. At the 1920 Convention, the General Executive Board enacted a resolution to establish a Joint Board within Local 25 and charter separate locals for dressmakers and waistmakers. By 1921, there was organized a Joint Board composed of Local 22 Dressmakers, Local 25 Waistmakers, Local 58 Waist Buttonhole Makers, Local 60 Waist and Dress Pressers, Local 66 Bonnaz Embroidery Workers, Local 89 Italian Waist and Dressmakers, and the waist and dress branch of Cutters' Local 10. The new arrangement was not without problems among the recently rearranged locals. The new Dress and Waistmakers' Joint Board soon began new agreement negotiations with the Dress Manufacturers' Association, and called a general strike on February 9, 1921. Julius Hochman managed the Dress and Waistmakers' Joint Board. With a large growth of jobbers in the industry sending work to non-union shops, the Joint Board inaugurated a drive in the summer of 1922 to strike the big jobbing firms and bring workers under union contracts. A general work stoppage in February 1923 in the dress industry won the union a 40 hour week and 10 percent wage increase, as well as a large gain of new members. During the summer of 1923, after years of discussion and deliberation, the two dress locals, Local 23 and 22 were consolidated. The dressmakers from Local 23 transferred to Local 22 and subsequently Local 22 joined the New York Cloakmakers' Joint Board. Later, the Dress Pressers' Local 60 joined Local 35 the Cloak Pressers' Union. Soon, the Dress and Waist Joint Board became unnecessary and was dissolved. Local 89, the Italian Dress and Waistmakers' Union, affiliated with the Cloak Board as well, and both dress and cloak industries in New York were represented by the Cloak and Dress Joint Board. Local 25 Waistmakers were left without an affiliated organization and in October 1924 merged with the Dressmakers' Union, Local 22.
At the end of 1924, the Joint Board met with the Wholesale Dress Manufacturers' Association and although conferences continued into 1925, but resulted in the introduction of a sanitary label in the dress industry and an unemployment insurance fund. The "prosanis" label in the dress industry was launched by the Sanitary Joint Board on April 15, 1925. During the remainder of 1925, many of the dress agreements went unenforced with the upsurge of workers in non-union plants and the internal conflict created by the rise to power of the Communists within the local. A "peace pact" resulted in the resignation of vice president Julius Hochman who had been managing the dress division, replaced by a staff of Communist officials headed by Charles Zimmerman. By the end of 1926, the Communists had gained control of the dress organization in New York City and the union barely existed. But during 1927 and 1928, the Joint Board persisted with organizing activities in an attempt to strengthen its position. Julius Hochman was elected general manager of the Joint Board and later in December 1927 Elias Reisberg was elected manager of the dress department. In 1929, the General Executive Board formed the Dress Trade Council consisting of representatives of dress locals to begin to rehabilitate the dress organization. Also at this time, Hochman was appointed manager of the Dress Division of the Joint Board and launched a large dress campaign to increase membership. Isidore Nagler served as general manager of Joint Board.
In February 4, 1930, 25,000 dressmakers walked out of the shops. And while the strike was settled eight days later, the strike was called to reorganize dressmakers and establish collection relationships with employers and collective agreements as well as finally abolish the Communist influence in the industry. On April 8, 1930 the General Executive Board decided to separate the dressmakers from the Cloakmakers' Joint Board and give them back an autonomous joint board to govern their own affairs. The new independent Dress Joint Board addressed dress manufacturers list of 38 demands during contract negotiations, and when an agreement could not be reached, on February 16, 1932, a general strike of the dressmakers lasted two weeks. This defensive strike renewed collective agreements. Another walkout in all dress shops, both union and non-union on August 16, 1933 brought the dress industry to a halt. A quick resolution resulted in 35 hours/5 day weeks, fixed wages for week and piece workers, and guaranteed minimum wages. By February 1934, the Dress Joint Board moved to new larger offices along with Locals 22 and 89, illustrating a drastic turnaround from previous years. The dress industry was now the biggest organized center in the ILGWU.
The historic revival of the New York dress organization in 1933 created the largest single body of workers within the union. By the 1940s, the Dress Joint Board was composed of Locals 89 (Italian Dressmakers), 22, 60 (Dress Pressers) and the Dress Division of Cutters' Local 10. Added to that, in 1939 the Dress Joint Board took over responsibility for and control over the working conditions and agreements of silk dress production in the Eastern and the Cotton Dress Departments. The Joint Board worked to create a WPA sewing project for unemployed dressmakers, as well as establishing in 1938 a Samplemakers' Labor Bureau. Unfortunately, the lack of styles during the war years caused economic problems, with shrinking production and unemployment. With the collective agreement of March 1944, an industry-wide health and vacation fund covered members of Locals 89, 22 and 60 and included sick benefits, hospitalization, medical services at the Union Health Center, eye exams, and tuberculosis aid, as well as one week's paid vacation. Additionally, a retirement system supplemented the health and vacation fund, the Retirement Fund and Health and Welfare Fund of the Dress Joint Board. Soon, the dress industry was back to pre-war production levels with an increase in styles, though the industry often had difficulty adapting to the postwar retail market and new consumer attitude. The Joint Board launched a large scale organization drive at the end of the decade which was met with resistance, often violent, by "for hire" thugs interfering on picket lines and threatening Joint Board officers. Zimmerman, now a vice-president as well as manager of Local 22, supervised the drive to organize the open shops. It was during this drive that dress presser and temporary organizer William Lurye was murdered in May 1949 as the open shops employed racketeering to prevent unionization. The anti-open shop campaign succeeded in bringing union conditions and standards to the new shops.
The New York Dress Institute was formed with the assistance of the Joint Board in 1941 to promote American fashions and establish New York as the fashion capital. While the Joint Board suspended payments in 1944, the Institute still operated, having fashion shows, distributing fashion photographs for publications, and maintaining the best dressed women list. By 1953, the Dress Institute cut operation due to lack of funds and began operating as the Couture Group of the Dress Institute. At a GEB meeting in 1953, shipping clerks in the dress industry were unionized to form Local 60A, a branch of Local 60. The locals in Joint Board now included Locals 89, 22, and 60-60A Dress Pressers and Shipping Clerks. Julius Hochman resigned as manager of the Dress Joint Board in June 1958 after 29 years (since 1929) to direct the new ILGWU Union Label Department. He was succeeded by Charles Zimmerman, who had been manager of Local 22 for 25 years. 1958 also saw the formation of the Dressmakers' Joint Council, which consisted of the Joint Board, as well as the dress sections of the Eastern Out-of-Town and Northeast Departments. Zimmerman was also manager of the new Joint Council. Sol Greene, assistant director of the Northeast Department, became the new assistant general manager of the Joint Board. The Joint Board in January 1959 was the first ILGWU affiliate to introduce the new union label.
A March 1958 walkout of 105,000 dressmakers in the New York metropolitan area was the first general strike in 25 years. Negotiations with employers began at the end of 1957 and with no resolution in sight, the contracts, set to expire January 1958, were extended for another month. Again, with no agreement in sight, the strike committee set the date of March 5 for the walkout. At ten o'clock that morning, thousands and thousands of garment workers left the shops and made their way into the streets. Soon Madison Square Garden was filled and tens of thousands pickets organized. A few days later, Mayor Wagner called strike leaders and appointed from Senator Lehman and Impartial Chairman Harry Uviller to mediate the strike. The five day general strike resulted in a new contract for workers including wage increases, a 7 hour day/ 35 hour week for piece and time workers with overtime pay, and the establishment of a severance fund.
The decades of the 1960s and 70s saw a decline in shops and jobs in New York City with firms going out of business. In June 1969, Local 38 Theatrical Costume, Ladies Tailors voted to affiliate with the Joint Board, representing theatrical costume workers and custom tailors in departments stores. Additional diversifying included a newly formed Local 159 of office employees in the dress industry. Charles Zimmerman retired on July 1, 1972 as union vice president and manager of the Dress Joint Council and New York Dress Joint Board. Murray Gross, who had been associate general manager since 1969 became the general manager of the Joint Board and Joint Council. The Joint Board now consisted of Locals 89, 22, 60-60A and 159 along with the new Local 38 and 159. March 1974 saw the initial movement to reorganize the Joint Board by combining and merging various departments. By 1975, the New York Dress Joint Board completed restructuring of affiliate locals, and Locals 60-60A, 159, and 38 were merged into existing Locals 22 and 89. Local 22 gained jurisdiction over all dressmakers in Manhattan and Local 89 was designated the local for all Bronx and Brooklyn members. Vice president and general manager Murray Gross retired and Sam Nemaizer became manager after the 1974 convention. There were changes in leadership also as Locals 22 and 89 saw long serving managers began to retire.
In November 1977, the executive committee of the ILGWU General Executive Board enacted a resolution that merged the existing cloak, dress, rainwear and other affiliates in New York, thus ending the separate existence of the New York Cloak and Dress Joint Boards. The New York Cloak-Dress Joint Board and Affiliates consisted of Local 1-35 United Coat, Suit, Rainwear and Allied Workers Union of Manhattan; Local 10 Cutters; Local 22 Dressmakers Union of Manhattan; Local 48 Coat, Suit, Dress, Rainwear and Allied Workers Union of North Brooklyn; Local 77 Coat, Suit, Dress, Rainwear and Allied Workers Union of Queens; Local 89 Coat, Suit, Dress, Rainwear and Allied Workers Union of South Brooklyn; and Local 189 Coat, Suit, Dress, Rainwear and Allied Workers Union of the Bronx. At the same time, sportswear locals previously under the Dress or Cloak Joint Board were now a part of the new New York Sportswear and Allied Workers Joint Board (Local 10 Cutters; Local 23-25 Blouse, Skirt and Sportswear Workers; Local 91 Children's Dressmakers; Local 105 Snowsuit, Infants, and Novelty Sportswear; and Local 155 Knitgoods Workers). The new resolution redrew existing locals' jurisdiction to represent workers along geographic as well as industrial lines. The changes created a more efficient and economical representation of the workers and provided greater organizing ability and bargaining power. E. Howard Molisani, an ILGWU vice-president and manager of the Cloak Joint Board, was elected to serve as the general manager of the new organization. Following his retirement in July 1978, Samuel Nemaizer (formerly manager of the Dress Joint Board) was appointed to succeed Molisani as general manager.
In late 1981, the Joint Board approved a measure to dissolve Locals 48, 77 and 189 to create a stronger financial foundation for the organization. Members were transferred to Locals 22, 1-35 and 89. Local 89 was renamed Local 89- 48 to honor the historic significance of the Italian cloakmakers. An October 1984 meeting resulted in more restructuring of the board and locals into a new Local 89-22-1. Changes in the garment industry necessitated the dissolution of the Joint Board and Locals 22 and 89-48. The charter of Local 1-35 was amended to create the new Local 89-22-1. With the consolidation of staff and retirements of managers Samuel Nemaizer, Manuel Gonzalez and Frank Longo, Samuel Byer, associate general manager of the New York Coat-Dress-Rainwear Joint Board was elected manager of Local 89-22-1. The New York Sportswear Joint Board was renamed the New York Joint Board in August 1985, and Locals 62-32 and 66-40 joined the existing affiliates Locals 23-25, 155, 91-105 and 10 and managed by Edgar Romney. After the retirement in 1993 of Samuel Byer, Barbara Laufman was elected manager of Local 89-22-1. Local 89-22-1 was the successor to some of the oldest locals in the union from the coat, dress, suite and rainwear industries, as well as both the New York Dress and Cloak Joint Boards. In July 1922, the New York State District merged with Local 89-22-1.
The records of the Dress Joint Board are arranged alphabetically by subject and offer an overview of the function and type of work undertaken by the Joint Board within the dress industry. The Joint Board had far reaching interests and business, and the collection is predominantly correspondence arranged alphabetically by subject, revealing the breadth of organizations, commitments, and activities of the Joint Board. For instance, the records document the Joint Boards work with Civil Rights organizations, including the NAACP, Roy Wilkins, the National Urban League, and even correspondence with Martin Luther King Jr. There is material discussing the charges of discrimination levied by NAACP labor secretary Herbert Hill against the union in 1962, as well as late 1950s reports and correspondence of the unions work with the State Commission Against Discrimination. Dress associations represented in agreements include the United Better Dress Manufacturers, the Pennsylvania Dress Manufacturers Association, and the New Jersey Dress Manufacturers. Records show organizations the Joint Board contributed money. There is also much information on elections, mainly campaign material for congressional races as well as local elections (city council). The correspondence and literature comes from the Campaign Committee. Of particular note is the material for elections within the locals for executive board, for officers, including ballots and slates.
The collection provides documentation on the dress industry, with material comprising price settlement lists, operator earnings, garment production volume/dollar volume, and wholesale firm production. There are many comparison studies, including a survey of wage rates by skill (draper, cutter, etc.). Additionally, there are facts, figures and reports from the Price Settlement Department, such as information on wage comparisons. The dispute between piece work and week work can be examined from the reports and studies on the introduction of section work and pricing in relation to the completed employee and shop week work questionnaires.
The administrative function of the Joint Board is represented through reports to the General Executive Board; records of the Health, Welfare and Retirement plans/funds, which were established in 1944, and include rules and regulations, premiums, payments, reports, receipts and disbursements; disability benefits paid out with and without hearings; decisions of the Impartial Chairman. Another component of the collection is material from the locals that composed the Joint Board as well as dress locals not in New York City (out-of-town) and their Joint Boards. This includes much material from the Northeast Department, which in 1958, had the dress department merge with the Joint Board to form the new Dressmakers' Joint Council. A large section of the collection contains files on negotiations of the Joint Board with employers and manufacturing associations for new contracts and agreements. These are organized according to year and illustrate gains and losses for the union over time through collective bargaining. Notable inclusions within the negotiations are listed in the folder titles.
General Managers of the Dress Joint Board are also represented through correspondence, memos, articles, reports, and mainly speeches. Longtime manager Julius Hochman has many folders of speeches he gave, arranged by year and convention, i.e. ILGWU, AFL, regional meetings, Workman's Circle Convention, Jewish Labor Committee. There are also speeches and correspondence of Charles Zimmerman, including during his time as president of the Jewish Labor Committee (1967-1971).
The history of the Dress Joint Board was filled consolidations and mergers. Early history can be found in the form of a constitution when it was called the Joint Board of the Dress and Waistmakers' Union, as well as when it was merged into the Joint Board of the Cloak, Suit, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers' Union. Also beneficial for historical information on the Joint Board are the reports that were presented to the ILGWU conventionsonly brief reports appear in the official proceedings. Finally, of note, there is the Dress Joint Board newsletter "The Organizer" from 1933 chronicling the dressmaker strike, and worth noting, there is a folder of photographs, and while many are of activities of the Joint Board, much is of a personal nature and includes snapshots of families and children.
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ILGWU Joint Board Dress & Waistmakers'' Union of Greater New York Managers' Correspondence #5780/047. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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Schedule of piece-work prices for cotton dresses, prepared for the Waist and Dressmakers Jt. Bd., Phila., Pa.
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Election results for Local 22; leaflets.
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Articles by JH & CSZ, incl. "Free Trade Unions in the Developing Countries" & newspaper clippings from India & Greece.
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Pamphlets by JH, incl. Industry Planning Through Collective Bargaining (1941).
Speeches for convention by JH.
Speeches by JH, incl. his resignation & nomination of CSZ.
Speeches by JH.
Speeches, notes for Harvard Lectures.
Speeches by JH.
Speeches by JH.
Speeches by JH.
Speeches by JH.
Speeches by JH.
Speeches by JH.
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Financial statements.
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Personal correspondence.
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Concert & Celebration of Jt. Bd.; incl. speeches by JH & William Green.
Membership figures of Locals 10,22,60,89.
Copy of song by Harold J. Rome, autographed by N.Y. & Out-of-Town ILGWU Choruses, presented to JH.
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Cases, incl. Blue Gem Dress Co.,& Susan Evans, Inc.
Cases, incl. Blue Gem Dress Co.,& Susan Evans, Inc.
Decisions involving Penna. shops.
February 1973.
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I.c.w. Pay Board (U.S.).
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Rank and File leaflets.
Dec. 1969-Jan. 1970.
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Dec. 1966-Jan. 1967.
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Feb. 1961.
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Nov. 1960-June 1961. Index and history.
Nov. 1960-Feb. 1961.
April 1960-Jan. 1961.
Feb. 1960-Jan. 1961.
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Jan. 1958-Mar. 1959. Incl. notes on conference bet. JH, Emil Schlesinger & Lazare Teper.
Index and history.
Aug. 1957-Dec. 1958.
Oct. 1957-Sept. 1958.
Sept. 1957-June 1958.
Mar. 1957-June 1958.
Incl. report of Special Trial Committee of GEB re Harry Schindler & Edward Spritzer (Sept. 1, 1959); David Dubinsky ltr. reprimanding Max Bluestein (Jan. 13, 1955); JH memo re "General Conditions in Industry, Fall Season 1953."
Incl. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services' announcement of labor dispute.
Feb. 14, 1955. Dr. Lazare Teper memo.
Incl. "Summary of Inflation Clause" (1944).
Nov. 1950-Mar. 1951.
Sept. 1950-Dec. 1950. Incl. memoranda from William Gomberg, Morris Glushien & Dr. Lazare Teper; complaints from Eastern Out-of-Town locals; statistical table re Columbus Day as a holiday; summary," Matters Not Yet Settled."
Feb. 1949-Dec. 1950.
Incl. general strike flier (Mar. 5, 1947).
Mar. 1947.
Dec. 1946. Stenographic record of Dress Industry Conference.
Announcement of appointment by F.H. LaGuardia (mayor) of Anna Rosenberg as personal observer in negotiations; press release announcing contract calling for "efficient management & industry promotion."
Oct. 1940-Jan. 1941.
I.c.w. United Popular Dress Mfrs. Assoc. & Popular Priced Dress Contractors Assoc.; leaflets & telegrams re conflict bet. the two Associations.
Mar-May 1974.
Incl. article, "Observations on the Cost of Living Index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics" by Lazare Teper.
History & record of negotiations, incl. Directory of Representatives to Industrywide Conference.
Feb. 1958-Jan. 1959.
Jan. 1961.
Incl. NLRB hearing & leaflets.
May 1950-Aug. 1951.
Incl. JH speech, "A Program for Reconstructing New York's First Industry" & news release.
Incl. copy of "Promulgation of the Bd. of Stability and Control."
Incl. record of hearing before War Labor Board.
Chaikin, Sol Greene and David Gingold
Incl. copies of proclamation by local mayors in honor of "ILGWU Union Label Day" (1960).
Incl. minutes of managers' conference; minutes of conference bet. Jt. Bd. & Northeast Dept.; list of N.E. Penna. contractors.
Incl. correspondence. & agreements with Penna. Dress Mfrs. Assoc., Inc.
Incl. pamphlets of Southern New England District.
Incl. leaflet, "It Settles Nothing!" of Penna. Garment Mfrs. Assoc.
Mar. 1966.
Feb. 1964.
Corres. on contract negotiations for employees of Jt. Bd. & agreements.
Incl. non-union firms in jobbers' drive; Itrs. from organizers.
Incl. Report of Organization Committee, General Dress Strike (1933) & handwritten outline of account of Chicago strike of 1919.
Reports of non-union jobbers' drive; incl. accounts of gangster attacks on pickets & Union officers.
Vol 1. 1, Nos. 1-6.
Leaflets.
August 1945. Report.
Incl. photographs of Julius Hochman & GEB.
Incl. recommendations on scope, methods & procedures.
Jan. 1952-May 1952. Reports & procedures.
Incl. decision of Impartial Chairman re Jackie Kaye, Inc.
Decision by Harry Uviller.
Hearings & decisions re week work and piece work.
1951 Negotiations. Dec. 1950. Section work, reports & summaries.
Incl. ltr. from Eleanor Roosevelt.
Incl. report to conventions.
Weekly summaries of conditions in the dress industry.
Incl. Standard of Living Study and statistical analysis of garment industry of Metropolitan area.
Leaflets, incl. leaflets from Local 1199, Drug and Hospital Union, RWDSU.
Ltrs. (2) from Jacob Javits (senator); memo from Emil Schlesinger re failure of firms to pay contributions to Fund; merger of fund into ILGWU National Retirement Fund; Rules & Regulations of Fund & proposed amendments; statistical reports.
Ltrs. (2) from Jacob Javits (senator); memo from Emil Schlesinger re failure of firms to pay contributions to Fund; merger of fund into ILGWU National Retirement Fund; Rules & Regulations of Fund & proposed amendments; statistical reports.
Incl. correspondence. re individual retirement cases.
Rules & Regulations.
Report on registration for pension benefits & report on retirement applications.
Incl. retirement plan for officers of N.Y.C. Jt. Bd. & affiliated locals, minutes of Health & Welfare Council & Retirement Council.
Memorandum re Cloak Retirement Fund rules & cost of benefits; statistical report on members' ages.
Incl. minutes of Health, Welfare & Death Benefit Funds Committee and minutes of local union mgrs. re Reciprocity Retirement Plan.
I.c.w. Louis Rolnick; "Report of Committee on Retirement Fund for Officers."
Incl. ltrs. from Sumner Slichter & B. M. Selekman.
June 1960. Outline of conditions re organization of salesmen.
Incl. copy of memo re general strike referendum; proposed revision in price settlements & in Health & Welfare & Retirement Funds; ltr. re impact of Taft-Hartley Act upon Health & Welfare Fund.
Incl. "Collective Bargaining" by E. Schlesinger & Louis Nizer, April 16, 1945.
Memorandum, "Breach of Contract - Excuse for Non-Performance."
Incl. legal decisions and correspondence. w. Sol C. Chaikin.
Incl. correspondence., conference reports & memoranda; Know Your Price Settlements (handbook); & statistical tables.
Data on price settlement & section work.
Memoranda, "Basic Principles for the Proper Operation of a Section Work Shop," "Summary of Price Settlement Systems in Various Cities."
Text of brochure, "Section Piece Work."
Memo of instructions on use of time unit system of piece rate settlement; manual, "Schedule of Piece Work Prices for Cotton Dresses. "
Annual reports & financial statements.
Annual reports & financial statements.
Proceedings of Dress Jt. Bd. meeting & JH speech at conference.
Leaflets re strike calls & meetings, incl. Fur Workers Reorganization Committee.
Incl. congratulatory ltrs. & telegrams;
Corres. re contributions to Young People's Socialist League.
Jan. 30, 1971. Corres. re dinner in honor of Charles Zimmerman; incl. text of his acceptance speech.
I.c.w. Socialist Party U.S.A. & New America.
CSZ speeches.
CSZ speeches.
Incl. speeches & outlines by JH & Jack Spitzer.
Speeches & outlines.
Radio broadcast, "This is New York," over CBS, Oct. 18, 1948; incl. JH's notes.
Incl. speech on Sidney Hillman.
Background material, incl. anecdotes.
Minutes.
Incl. verbatim interviews with ten members re discrepancies in payments of strike fund benefits in Williamsburg office.
Incl. pamphlet. Taft-Hartley Act in Action by Jack Barbash; "Memorandum on Certain Phases of the Taft-Hartley Law" by Emil Schlesinger; announcement of study of employer-employee relations in garment industry by Jt. Comm. on Labor-Management Relations.
Incl. memoranda & speech, "Low Wages in New York City" by Mitchell Lokiec.
articles and clippings
Textile Workers Asian Regional Organization I.c.w. John E. Newton (president) & J. Greenhalgh (general secretary); resignation of CSZ as member of executive committee.
Incl. outlines of graduation exercise speeches (one undated); bio. material on Martin Miller.
Incl. correspondence., reports (some in Yiddish), & article for Forward.
Incl. lists of trucking firms; press release of background material on "trucking evils;" leaflets.
I.c.w. Leo Price, M.D.; booklets, L. A. Health Center.
Report to Health Committee by Dr. Henry B. Makover.
"The Keys to Selling the Union Label to the American," survey by Louis Harris & Associates; script for Union Label film.
July 1958-Aug. 1959. Summaries of conferences bet. Union officials, advertising agencies & JH; draft of Union Label program.
I.c.w. AFL.
Course outline (no author).
Incl. correspondence. on negotiations, outline of presentation by JH, news releases & copies of agreement with Affiliated Dress Mfrs., Inc. & United Better Dress Mfrs. Assoc., Inc.
Incl. correspondence. & outline of presentation of Union demand for wage increase.
Questionnaires listing week-workers & base salaries by shop.
Questionnaires listing week-workers & base salaries by shop.
Questionnaires listing week-workers & base salaries by shop.
Questionnaires listing week-workers & base salaries by shop.
Incl. ltrs. from A. Philip Randolph re Freedom Budget; copy of Speeches from the Conference.
Statistical tables, background material & notes for speech by JH.
I.c.w. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.