Schloessberg, Joseph Diaries Excerpts, 1940-1943
Collection Number: 5296m
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Joseph Schloessberg Diaries Excerpts, 1940-1943
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5296m
Abstract:
Typescript copies of excerpts from Joseph Schlossberg's diaries at the Histadrut Archives.
Creator:
Schloessberg, Joseph
Quanitities:
1 folders
Language:
Collection material in English
Born in Koidanovo (now Dzerzhinsk), Belorussia, Russia, May 1, 1875; son of Max, a
tailor, and Bessie (Feldman) Schlossberg; Jewish; married Anna Grossman on September
5, 1905; two children; emigrated to the United States in 1888 and, after attending
the public schools of New York City for one year, began work as a cloakmaker in the
New York City garment industry; while involved in the organization of garment workers
during the 1890s, joined the Socialist Labor party and edited its Yiddish language
journals, Das Abend Blatt, 189-1902 and Der Arbeiter, 1904-1911; attended the Columbia
University School for Political Science, 1905-1907; supported a group of New York
City tailors striking against the wishes of their parent organization, the United
Garment Workers of America, in 1913, and led a secessionist movement that resulted
in the organization of the United Brotherhood of Tailors (UBT); elected secretary
of the New York Joint Board of the UBT; was one of the founders of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) in 1914 and elected general secretary-treasurer
of the new organization; served as a fraternal delegate to the Congress for Labor
Palestine, 1918, the International Congress of Clothing Workers, Copenhagen, 1920,
and the Mexican Federation of Labor, Juarez, 1924; was a charter member of the National
Labor Committee for Labor Israel and elected chairman in 1934; appointed to the New
York City Board of Higher Education in 1935, serving until 1963; resigned union positions
in 1940 to devote further time and effort to Zionist and communicty affairs; after
the establishment of the State of Israel, joined the Histadrut, the Israel General
Federation of Labor; was a director of the American Civil Liberties Union, the American
Association for Jewish Education, and the Yiddish Scientific Institute; edited the
ACWA weekly, Advance, for several years; authored The Workers and Their World (1935);
died in New York City, January 15, 1971; Matthew Josephson, Sidney Hillman, Statesman
of American Labor (1952); Erma Angevine, In League with the Future (1959); Joel Seidman,
The Needle Trades (1942); Melech Epstein, Jewish Labor in the USA, 1914- 1952 (1953).
This collection consists of typescript copies of excerpts from Joseph Schlossberg's
diaries at the Histadrut Archives.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
Joseph Schloessberg Diaries Excerpts #5296m. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 5619: ACWA Records
Names:
Schloessberg, Joseph
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
ACWA
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 |
Joseph Schlossberg diary excerpts
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1940-1943 | |
Scope and Contents
Typescript
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