International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Zimmerman, Charles S. papers, 1919-1958 [bulk 1920-1945]., 1919-1958 [bulk 1920-1945].
Collection Number: 5780/014

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


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Charles S. Zimmerman papers, 1919-1958 [bulk 1920-1945].
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5780/014
Abstract:
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).
Creator:
Zimmerman, Charles S., 1896-1983.
Quanitities:
25 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

Charles S. Zimmerman, labor leader, political activist, and officer, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU).
Charles Zimmerman was born in Russia in 1896 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1913. He worked in the New York garment industry and joined ILGWU Local 22; shortly thereafter, he became its secretary-manager. He was also an organizer for the Joint Board of the Dress and Waistmakers' Union. Throughout the 1920s, Zimmerman was an active member of the Communist Party, which affiliation cost him his union leadership positions in 1925. By 1931, however, he was reinstated in the ILGWU and was elected a vice-president in 1934.
1897 Born in Talne, Ukraine, Russia. Studied in Kheder and Talmud Torah.
1907 Entered local Russian secular school.
1913 Arrived in United States. Lived with relatives on Lower East Side.
1913-16 Worked in garment and non garment shops.
1913 Participated in a strike to form a union and joined Local 19, United Garment Workers, on Clinton Street.
1914 Mother and brother came from Europe and joined CSZ and his sister.
1913-17 Attended public night school and Manhattan Preparatory School.
1916 Joined Local 25, ILGWU, and factory went out on strike. Elected shop chairman.
1917 Joined Socialist Party.
1918 International Workers of the World (IWW).
1919 Conducted organizing drive for Local 9 in Long Branch, N.J. Hall chairman in organization strike of Local 25.
1930 Joined the United Cloak and Dressmakers Progressive League as member #1.
1931 Rejoined ILGWU.
1931 Formed Committee of 25 to rebuild Local 22.
1931 After rejoining Local 22, formed Progressive League (or Group).
1932 Elected to executive board of Local 22.
1933 Elected manager-secretary of Local 22.
1934 Elected to General Executive Board.
1940 Resigned from Lovestone group.
1945-46 Trip to Europe, visiting Poland, Sweden and Norway on behalf of Jewish Labor Committee.
1947 Elected chairman, Trade Union Council, Liberal Party. 1958 Elected general manager of Dress Joint Board.
1958 Served as worker delegate to Sixth Session of Textiles Committee of International Labour Organization.
1966 Helped found Inter-American Federation of Textile and Garment Workers.
1969 Training ship, "Charles S. Zimmerman," christened by Seafarers International Union.
1972 Resigned as Union vice president and general manager of Dress Joint Council and N.Y., Dress Joint Board.

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).
The remainder of the materials covers union affairs, both within and outside of the ILGWU, from the 1920s to the 1950s, as well as labor issues in general. There is a good deal of information on civil rights and African-American employees from the 1930s to the 1950s. Other subjects include anti-fascism and anti-Nazism; strikes and other labor disputes in the U.S. and Canada; union elections; and worker education.
Significant organizations represented in the Zimmerman collection include the AFL and CIO (before and after the merger); the Fur and Leather Workers' Union; the Jewish Labor Committee; joint boards and locals of the ILGWU, especially Local 22 in New York; the League for Industrial Democracy; the NAACP; the National Urban League; the Workmen's Circle; and the Works Progress Administration.
Notable individuals represented include: Luigi Antonini; Irving Brown; David Dubinsky, Julius Hochman; Fiorello LaGuardia; Tom Mooney; Rose Pesotta; Adam Clayton Powell; Jackie Robinson; Norman Thomas; and Roy Wilkins.
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.

Related Materials

5780/014 P. Charles S. Zimmerman. ILGWU Local 22. Dressmaker's Union. Photographs, 1910-1958.
5780/015. ILGWU Local 22. Dressmaker's Union. Papers, 1920-1933.
5780/036. ILGWU Local 22. Dressmakers' Union. Minutes, 1934-1972.
5780/057. ILGWU Local 22. Dressmaker's Union. Education Department records, 1933-1975, 1950-1970 (bulk).
5780/067. ILGWU Local 22. Dressmaker's Union. Israel Breslow. Manager's records.
5780/178. Charles Zimmerman, collector. Radical pamphlets.
5780 OH. ILGWU. Oral Histories.
I. Local 22. Subject files, 1933-1958. Boxes 1-39
II. Subject files, 1919-1932. Boxes 40-50
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International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Charles S. Zimmerman papers, 1919-1958 [bulk 1920-1945]. #5780/014. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Zimmerman, Charles S.,
Antonini, Luigi, 1883-1968.
Brown, Irving, 1911-
Dubinsky, David, 1892-
Foster, William Z., 1881-1961.
Hochman, Julius, 1892-1970.
La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947.
Lovestone, Jay.
Mooney, Thomas J., 1882-1942.
Pesotta, Rose, 1896-
Powell, Adam Clayton, 1908-1972.
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968.
Wilkins, Roy, 1901-
Zimmerman, Charles S., 1896-1983.
AFL-CIO.
American Federation of Labor.
American Jewish Congress.
Communist Party of the U.S.A. (Majority Group)
Communist Party of the United States of America.
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
International Fur and Leather Workers Union of the United States and Canada.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.--Management.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 22 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 22 (New York, N.Y.)--Management.
Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.)
League for Industrial Democracy.
Liberal Party of New York State.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
National Urban League.
Socialist Party (U.S.)
United States. Works Progress Administration.
Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring.
Places:
New York (State)--Politics and government--20th century.
United States--Politics and government--20th century.
Subjects:
Afro-Americans--Employment.
Anti-fascist movements.
Anti-Nazi movement.
Civil rights--United States.
Clothing workers--Labor unions--United States.
Communists--United States.
Communism--United States.
Labor disputes--United States.
Labor disputes--Canada.
Labor unions and communism--United States.
Labor unions--Officials and employees.
Labor union locals.
Strikes and lockouts--United States.
Strikes and lockouts--Canada.
Working class--Education--United States.
Form and Genre Terms:
Correspondence
Reports
Clippings
Minutes
Broadsides

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
I. Local 22. Subject files, 1933-1958.
Box 1 Folder 1
A: 1935-57.
Box 1 Folder 2
Abrams, Jacob: 1951-53.
Box 1 Folder 3
Affairs of Local 22: 1936-37.
Box 1 Folder 4
Agreements: 1929-57. Includes memoranda reached in conference between Affiliated Dress Manufacturers' Association, Inc., and Joint Board of Cloak, Dress and Fur Workers Union of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union; agreement between Dress Manufacturers Protective Association, Inc. and Joint Board, etc., 1929; independent agreements.
Box 1 Folder 5
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born: 1936-44.
Box 1 Folder 6
Americans for Democratic Action: 1957-58.
Box 1 Folder 7
American Federation of Labor: 1933-June 1936. Includes William Green letter criticizing C.S. Zimmerman for supporting "sympathetic" strike in San Francisco and Zimmerman reply, Aug. 1934; other documents refer to AFL-CIO controversy.
Box 1 Folder 8
AFL: July 1936-Dec. 1936. Includes survey by Isadore Polier on the legal problems involved in the suspension and expulsion of AFL unions, copies of correspondence between William Green, David Dubinsky and John L. Lewis on AFL-CIO controversy.
Box 1 Folder 9
AFL (-CIO, Post-1955): 1937-58. Includes documents on AFL-CIO controversy.
Box 1 Folder 10
AFL-CIO Committees: 1957. Includes AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee report on Teamsters Union.
Box 1 Folder 11
AFL, CIO, World War II Effort: 1942-44.
Box 2 Folder 1
American Jewish Congress: 1939-50. Includes correspondence re study of the dress industry by the Commission on the Economic Problems of the AJC, 1939.
Box 2 Folder 2
American Labor Party: 1935-45. Includes CSZ letter to David Dubinsky protesting method of taxation and functioning of organization, June 1938; newspaper clippings.
Box 2 Folder 3
American Labor Party, Ladies' Garment Centers 1948-50.
Box 2 Folder 4
American Youth Congress: 1935-37.
Box 2 Folder 5
Amun-Israeli Housing Corp.: 1949-Mar. 1950. Includes correspondence, reports, minutes, legal matters.
Box 2 Folder 6
Amun-Israeli Housing Corp.: Mar. 1950-May 1950.
Box 2 Folder 7
Amun-Israeli Housing Corp: June 1950-Dec. 1950.
Box 2 Folder 8
Amun-Israeli Housing Corp.: 1951
Box 2 Folder 9
Amun-Israeli Housing Corp.: 1952-57. 1963-67. Includes correspondence with Israel Breslow.
Box 3 Folder 1
Andrews, Sarainne Lowe: 1935-41.
Box 3 Folder 2
Anti-Semitism, USA: 1930s.
Box 3 Folder 3
ANTIFA (Palestinian League Against War and Fascism and for Jewish-Arab Solidarity): 1937.
Box 3 Folder 4
Appeal Committee Reports to Executive Board, Local 22: 1934-46.
Box 3 Folder 5
B: 1936-57, 1964.
Box 3 Folder 6
Balabanoff, Angelica: 1938, 1940.
Box 3 Folder 7
Banks: 1933-47.
Box 3 Folder 8
Birobidjan, Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union: 1936-48.
Box 3 Folder 9
Birthday, CSZ 50th: 1947.
Box 3 Folder 0.1
Birthday, CSZ 60th: 1957.
Box 3 Folder 11
Broadcasts, Local 22: 1939.
Box 3 Folder 12
Brookwood Labor College: 1935-36.
Box 3 Folder 13
Bund Archives: 1951-58.
Box 3 Folder 14
Business Agents: 1940's. Includes lists of shops.
Box 3 Folder 15
C: 1936-52.
Box 4 Folder 1
Canadian Area, Montreal: 1925, 1932-50. Julius Hochman letter to employers to create machinery for the adjustments of disputes, 1925; correspondence with Bernard Shane, printed material, newspaper clippings.
Box 4 Folder 2
Canadian Area, Montreal: 1934-35. Frank Breslow correspondence; includes correspondence re Breslow jailed for strike activities; correspondents includes Kalmen Kaplansky, Bernard Shane.
Box 4 Folder 3
Canadian Area, Toronto: 1934-49. Includes correspondence with Harry Langer and Laible Hoffmitz on Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union of Canada; printed material and newspaper clippings.
Box 4 Folder 4
Catholic Interracial Council: 1950-57.
Box 4 Folder 5
Central Trades and Labor Council: 1934-57. Includes CSZ letter to James C. Quinn (secretary) criticizing Council's unseating of Local 22 as an affiliate of the Central Trades, June 1937.
Box 4 Folder 6
Citations: 1945-55.
Box 4 Folder 7
Civil Rights Organizations: 1935-48. Includes Committee for the Defense of Civil Rights in Tampa, Civil Rights Defense Committee .
Box 4 Folder 8
Civil Rights Organizations: 1949-56.
Box 4 Folder 9
Civil Rights Committees and Conferences: 1957. Includes Civil Rights Committee of the AFL-CIO (CSZ member) .
Box 4 Folder 10
Civil Rights Committee, AFL-CIO: 1958-Jan. 1961.
Box 5 Folder 1
Communism and Communists: 1933-41. Correspondence with individuals, groups and organizations.
Box 5 Folder 2
Communism and Communists: 1942-46.
Box 5 Folder 3
Communism and Communists: 1947-57. Includes case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobel, 1953-57.
Box 5 Folder 4
Communism, Trade Unions: 1934-56.
Box 5 Folder 5
Community Chests: 1941, 1947-56. Labor's participation and Councils of America, Inc.
Box 5 Folder 7
Complaints from Union Members: 1935-55.
Box 5 Folder 8
Congress of Industrial Organizations: 1935-36. Includes correspondence re AFL, CIO controversy; CIO organizing activities.
Box 5 Folder 9
CIO: 1937-47.
Box 6 Folder 1
Congress of Racial Equality: 1954-58.
Box 6 Folder 2
Congressional and Senatorial Letters: 1948-55. Includes replies re bills before House and Senate.
Box 6 Folder 3
Contractors, Employers: 1930's. Includes United Association News, Oct. and Nov. 1937.
Box 6 Folder 4
Conventions, ILGWU: 1932-34. Includes reports and resolutions, submitted by Local 22 delegates.
Box 6 Folder 5
Conventions, ILGWU: 1937-47.
Box 6 Folder 6
Conventions, ILGWU: 1950-56.
Box 6 Folder 7
Cotton Garment and Miscellaneous Trades Department: 1934-46. Includes minutes of Hay 1946 conference.
Box 6 Folder 8
D: 1929, 1935-55.
Box 6 Folder 9
Daily Worker and Morning Freiheit: 1930's.
Box 6 Folder 10
District Meeting, Local 22, Minutes: 1934-35.
Box 6 Folder 11
District Meeting, Local 22, Minutes: 1937-48,
Box 6 Folder 12
Dressmakers' Aid Committee and Credit Union: 1938-45.
Box 7 Folder 1
Dressmakers Branch of Workmen's Circle and Dressmakers Branch 322 of International Workers Order: 1927, 1930's-50.
Box 7 Folder 2
Dubinsky, David: 1932-38. Includes letter criticizing CSZ for taking positions contrary to Union policy re First of May demonstration, 1936.
Box 7 Folder 3
Dubinsky, David: 1939-58. Includes CSZ letter to Dubinsky, criticizing labor's lack of support of the Free Trade Union Fund for Europe, April 1946.
Box 7 Folder 4
E: 1933-58. Includes letter from East Indian Railwaymen's Union on labor situation in India, 1935.
Box 7 Folder 5
Education: 1934-58.
Box 7 Folder 6
Education, Apparel Industry: 1936-60. Includes minutes and reports of the Educational Foundation for the Apparel Industry.
Box 7 Folder 7
Education, Local 22: 1933-36. Includes correspondence between Mark Starr and George Simpson re Simpson's article on Local 22 in The Nation, Oct. 1935; educational programs, letters from members, printed material, reports.
Box 7 Folder 8
Education, Local 22: 1937-38.
Box 7 Folder 9
Education, Local 22: 1939-51.
Box 7 Folder 10
Education, Local 22: 1952-67.
Box 8 Folder 1
Education, Local 22, Art Shows: 1940-44.
Box 8 Folder 2
Education, Local 22, Art Shows: 1945-56.
Box 8 Folder 3
Education, Local 22, Dramatic Skits: 1930's-40's.
Box 8 Folder 4
Education, Local 22, Harlem Branch: 1933-34.
Box 8 Folder 5
Education, Local 22, Minutes and Financial Reports: 1935-36, 1942-43.
Box 8 Folder 6
Education, Local 22, Outlines for Courses: 1934-36.
Box 8 Folder 7
Education, Local 22, Outlines for Courses: 1937-51.
Box 8 Folder a
Education, National Committee for Rural Schools and United Negro College Fund: 1946-57. Includes Norman Thomas letter advising CSZ on Negro-controlled cooperative project in South Carolina, 1956.
Box 8 Folder 9
Educational Alliance: 1956-57. Includes correspondence and reports on program for retired members of Local 22, 1956-57.
Box 9 Folder 1
Elections, Local 22: 1933. 1) Includes report of Objection and Election Committee; 2) strike of 1933 in dress industry; 3) Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union resolution to form a united front to carry on strike.
Box 9 Folder 2
Elections, Local 22: 1934.
Box 9 Folder 3
Elections, Local 22: 1935.
Box 9 Folder 4
Elections, Local 22: 1935. Rank and File (left wing) newspaper clippings from Daily Worker and Morning Freiheit.
Box 9 Folder 5
Elections, Local 22: 1936-37.
Box 9 Folder 6
Elections, Local 22: 1939. Rank and File.
Box 9 Folder 7
Elections, Local 22: 1940. Includes installation meeting; newspaper clippings.
Box 9 Folder 8
Elections, Local 22: 1940. Progressive group.
Box 9 Folder 9
Elections, Local 22: 1940. Rank and Pile.
Box 9 Folder 10
Elections, Local 22: 1942. Progressive group.
Box 9 Folder 11
Elections, Local 22: 1942. Rank and File.
Box 10 Folder 1
Elections: 1944. Includes Progressive group and Rank and File group.
Box 10 Folder 2
Elections, Local 22: 1944. Newspaper clippings.
Box 10 Folder 3
.._. Elections, Local 22: 1947. Progressive group and Rank and File group.
Box 10 Folder 4
Elections, Local 22: 1947. Newspaper clippings.
Box 10 Folder 5
Elections, Local 22: 1950. Progressive group and Rank and File.
Box 10 Folder 6
Elections, Local 22: 1950. Newspaper clippings.
Box 10 Folder 7
Elections, Local 22: 1953. Progressive group. Rank and File group and newspaper clippings.
Box 10 Folder 8
Elections, Local 22: 1956.
Box 10 Folder 9
Elections, Local 22: 1965.
Box 10 Folder 10
Elections, Local Affiliates: 1965. Includes Local 10 and 89.
Box 10 Folder 11
Epstein, Melech: 1951-57. Correspondence re book, Jewish Labor in USA.
Box 11 Folder 1
F: 1938-57. Includes Farband-Labor Zionist Order, Freedom House.
Box 11 Folder 2
Fascism, Anti- and Anti-Nazism: 1934-43. Includes Local 22 releases, letters from Carlo Tresca.
Box 11 Folder 3
Fashion Institute of Technology: 1948-56.
Box 11 Folder 4
Federal Trade Commission: 1941. Re National Coat and Suit Industry Recovery Board.
Box 11 Folder 5
Feffer, George and Sandier, Bernie: 1942-45. Correspondence when they were in Army; Feffer paper, "Guaranteed Annual Wages in the Dress Industry," 1943.
Box 11 Folder 6
Ferrero (Vincent) -Sallitto (Domenick)
Box 11 Folder 6
Defense Committee: 1935-38.
Box 11 Folder 7
Films: 1947-48. Correspondence re AFL Projects and National Film Cooperative.
Box 11 Folder 8
Finance Committee, Local 22: 1926-36. Minutes and financial statements.
Box 11 Folder 9
Finance Committee, Local 22: 1937-39. Minutes and financial statements.
Box 11 Folder 10
Finance Committee, Local 22: 1940-47. Minutes, financial statements, census reports.
Box 11 Folder 11
Font, Norma: 1954. Case.
Box 11 Folder 12
Foreign Correspondence, Africa: 1943, 1956-58. Includes American Committee on Africa, Inc. South African Defense Fund and Maida Springer.
Box 11 Folder 13
Foreign Correspondence, Asian Affairs: 1955-57.
Box 11 Folder 14
Foreign Correspondence, Canada: 1942-55. Correspondence with Cooperative Commonwealth Federation of Canada.
Box 11 Folder 15
Foreign Correspondence, England: 1944-53. Includes letter to Clement R. Attlee and Ernest Bevin, criticizing (British Labour) government on treatment of Jews in Palestine, 1948,
Box 11 Folder 16
Foreign Correspondence, France: 1945-54. Includes correspondence with Irving Brown (AFL rep. in Europe) and F. Shrager on Communist activities in Europe.
Box 11 Folder 17
Foreign Correspondence, France: 1950, 1958-69. Unser Stimme.
Box 12 Folder 1
Foreign Correspondence, Germany: 1933-45. Includes correspondence re relief to victims of Nazism, trade union movement and post-war reconstruction, especially German trade union movement.
Box 12 Folder 2
Foreign Correspondence, Germany: 1946-53.
Box 12 Folder 3
Foreign Correspondence, Hungary: 1956. Re Hungarian revolution.
Box 12 Folder 4
Foreign Correspondence, India: 1934, 1948-58.
Box 12 Folder 5
Foreign Correspondence, Poland: 1936-47. Includes correspondence on aiding Polish-Jews.
Box 12 Folder 6
Foreign Correspondence, Russia: 1933-45.
Box 12 Folder 7
Foreign Correspondence, Russia: 1946-70. Includes Raphael Abramovitch outline report on History of Russian Revolution Project, 1957; CSZ statement at Jewish Labor Committee meeting re Russian anti-Semitism, 1966.
Box 12 Folder 8
Foreign Correspondence, South America: 1950, 1954-55.
Box 12 Folder 9
Foreign Correspondence, Spain: 1935-40. Includes correspondence with and reports from Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade; New World Resettlement Fund, Inc., and other organizations on Spanish Refugee Aid during and after Civil War.
Box 12 Folder 10
Foreign Correspondence, Spain: 1941-46, 1952-58.
Box 12 Folder 11
Foreign Correspondence, Springer, Maida: 1945-62. Includes correspondence, reports on trade union activities in Africa; her European and USA
Box 12 Folder 11
activities, 1945-55; AFL-CIO and ILGWU garment worker program, 1960-62.
Box 12 Folder 12
Foreign Correspondence, Miscellaneous Countries: 1941, 1944-61. Includes China, Cuba, Norway, Denmark and Sweden; study by Abe S. Weiss, Garment Workers of Other Lands, 1941.
Box 13 Folder 1
Forest Neighborhood House, Inc.: 1946-58.
Box 13 Folder 2
Form Letters: 1933-47.
Box 13 Folder 3
Forward, Jewish Daily: 1934-56.
Box 13 Folder 4
Free Trade Union Committee: 1947-56. Includes Jay Lovestone reports; Irving Brown report on trade union activities in Europe, 1947; Maida Springer report on Africa, 1952.
Box 13 Folder 5
Freeland League: 1946-49.
Box 13 Folder 6
Friedman, David: 1940-52. Newspaper clipping articles in Morning Freiheit.
Box 13 Folder 7
G: 1937-49.
Box 13 Folder 8
Gaskin, Lillian W.: 1933-36.
Box 13 Folder 9
General Executive Board: 1934-58. Includes Isidore Nagler report to GEB on overlapping problem between cloak and dress industry, 1938; CSZ report on trip to European countries for Jewish Labor Committee, 1946; CSZ memorandum on Latin America as an export market. May 1946.
Box 13 Folder 10
Gerjoy, Ben, and Lipnack, Sol: 1939. Statements from Local 22 and newspaper clippings on their expulsion from Communist Party.
Box 13 Folder 11
Greetings and Condolences: 1934-57.
Box 13 Folder 12
Grievance Committee: 1933-37. Cases.
Box 13 Folder 13
Grievance Committee: 1938-41. Cases.
Box 13 Folder 14
Grievance Committee: 1942-51. Cases.
Box 13 Folder 15
Grievance Committee: 1933, 1951, 1952-54. Max Goldberg case, 1933; Sam Peltz case, 1941; Hilda Tormay case, 1952-54.
Box 1 Folder 1
Gross, Murray: 1943-45. Correspondence with Gross in Army.
Box 14 Folder 2
H: 1935-58.
Box 14 Folder 3
Haber, S. 1943-53. Newspaper articles in Morning Freiheit.
Box 14 Folder 4
Harlem Section Dressmakers: 1930's.
Box 14 Folder 5
Harvard University: 1946-48. Includes correspondence with Walter Galenson and Irving Brown on European situation and aid to Norwegian Labor Party.
Box 14 Folder 6
Health, Committee for the Nation's: 1952-55.
Box 14 Folder 7a-7b
Health Insurance Plan (HIP): 1947-59.
Box 14 Folder 8
Health, Mental: 1946-58. Includes Eleanor Roosevelt letter inviting CSZ to hear William Menninger (Menninger Foundation) talk on mental health, 1954.
Box 14 Folder 9
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS): 1935-58.
Box 14 Folder 10
Henson, Francis A.: 1934, 1937-38.
Box 14 Folder 11
Herndon Defense Committee: 1935-36. Correspondence and literature re Angelo Herndon case, sentenced to prison for violating Georgia slave insurrection law.
Box 14 Folder 12
Hochman, Julius: 1946. Letters on his European activities as CRT delegate.
Box 14 Folder 13
Hoffmitz, Laible: 1935. Includes CSZ letters on Union.
Box 14 Folder 14
Housing: 1950-57. Includes letters from Lincoln Square Residents Committee.
Box 14 Folder 15
Hunter, Elsie: 1946-55. Case; includes discrimination complaint before National Labor Relations Board.
Box 14 Folder 16
Hyman, Louis: 1930's.
Box 15 Folder 1
I: 1936-57. Includes letters from Fenner Brockway (political secretary), Independent Labour Party re preparation for a new International, 1943-44.
Box 15 Folder 2
O'Dwyer letters
Box 15 Folder 3
Icor (Association for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union, Inc.): 1936-38.
Box 15 Folder 4
Immigration: 1936-37.
Box 15 Folder 5
Independent Communist Labor League and Independent Labor League of America: 1937-40.
Box 15 Folder 6
Independent Progressive Dressmakers, Local 22: 1940. Printed material.
Box 15 Folder 7
Industrial Workers of the World: 1930's.
Box 15 Folder 8
Institute of International Labor Research, Inc.: 1956-58.
Box 15 Folder 9
International Labor Defense: 1934-38.
Box 15 Folder 10
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union: 1934-58. Correspondence and form letters from Executive Secretary Frederick F. Umhey.
Box 15 Folder 11
ILGWU, Auditing: 1937-56.
Box 15 Folder 12
ILGWU, Clubs and Groups: 1937-38.
Box 15 Folder 13
ILGWU, Education Department: 1933-46. Includes article, "Lest We Forget," on 22nd Anniversary of the Triangle Fire, by Fannia M. Cohn, March 1933; correspondence with Mark Starr; form letters; printed material.
Box 15 Folder 14
ILGWU, Education Department.: 1947-58.
Box 16 Folder 1
ILGWU, Health and Welfare Fund: 1935-58.
Box 16 Folder 2
ILGWU, Legal Department.: 1948-58.
Box 16 Folder 2
Includes Federal Trade Commission vs. California Sportswear and Dress Assoc. case, 1957.
Box 16 Folder 3
ILGWU, Legislation: 1935-47. Includes material on the Taft-Hartley law.
Box 16 Folder 4
ILGWU, Jurisdictional Disputes (intra-Union): 1935-36, 1939. Includes dispute between Locals 1 and 22, 1935.
Box 16 Folder 5
ILGWU, Management Engineering Department.: 1940-51. Includes reports on Leslie Fay Fashions, Inc., 1951.
Box 16 Folder 6
ILGWU, Organizations, Support for: 1935-58.
Box 16 Folder 7
ILGWU, Organizing Activities: 1935-38, 1954-58.
Box 16 Folder 8
ILGWU, Political Department: 1937-61. Includes Gus Tyler proposal on trade union activities for Liberal Party, 1949.
Box 16 Folder 9
ILGWU, Research Department.: 1937-47.
Box 16 Folder 10
ILGWU, Research Department., Latin America: 1944-45. Correspondence and reports by Broadus Mitchell on feasibility of export of women's garments to Latin America.
Box 16 Folder 11
ILGWU, Research Department., World War II: 1942-45. Reports, releases on laws affecting garment industry.
Box 16 Folder 12
ILGWU, Training Institute: 1942, 1945-52.
Box 16 Folder 13
ILGWU, Training Institute: 1953-62.
Box 17 Folder 1
ILGWU, Unity House: 1933-47.
Box 17 Folder 2
International Rescue Committee, Inc.: 1952-58. Includes International Relief Assoc., 1934-39; International Rescue and Relief Committee, Inc.: 1942-51.
Box 17 Folder 3
International Solidarity Committee (to aid labor, socialist and democratic anti-fascists): 1946-51.
Box 17 Folder 4
International Workers Order: 1934-39.
Box 17 Folder 5
Investigations of Shops: 1935-48.
Box 17 Folder 6
Investments: 1929-46.
Box 17 Folder 7
Israel: 1948-58.
Box 17 Folder 8
Israel Bond Drive: 1951-58.
Box 17 Folder 9
Italian-American Labor Council: 1942-56.
Box 17 Folder 10
J: 1933-57. Includes Lyndon B. Johnson message: Dec. 1963.
Box 17 Folder 11
Jewish Labor Committee: 1934-July 1941.
Box 17 Folder 12
Jewish Labor Committee: Aug. 1941-Dec. 1941,
Box 17 Folder 13
Jewish Labor Committee: 1945-56.
Box 18 Folder 1
Jewish Labor Committee: 1957-58.
Box 18 Folder 2
Jewish Labor Committee, Women's Division: 1949-58.
Box 18 Folder 3
Jewish National Workers Alliance of America: 1937-47.
Box 18 Folder 4
Jewish Organizations re Israel (Palestine): 1936-47.
Box 18 Folder 5
Joint Boards, Baltimore: 1936-48. Includes correspondence with Charles Kreindler and Angela Bambace.
Box 18 Folder 6
Joint Boards, Boston: 1920 's, 1937-52. Includes correspondence with Philip Kramer; printed material ('20's).
Box 18 Folder 7
Joint Boards, Chicago: 1920's, 1934-56. Includes correspondence with Morris Bialis.
Box 18 Folder 8a
Joint Boards, Cleveland: 1920's, 1935-43. Includes CSZ letter to Abraham W. Katovsky, stating his position re CIO, July 1936.
Box 18 Folder 8b
Joint Boards, Kansas City: 1935-36, 1954.
Box 18 Folder 9
Joint Boards, Los Angeles (Cloak): 1933-55. Includes correspondence with Paul Berg, I. Lutsky, Rose Pesotta.
Box 18 Folder 10
Joint Boards, New York Cloak Joint Board: 1932-54. Includes correspondence and report of Israel Feinberg; Isidore Nagler report on conditions of the Women's Coat and Suit Industry, 1954; Proposal to Establish Retirement Fund in the Coat and Suit Industry (n.d.).
Box 18 Folder 11
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak and Dress Joint Board: 1925-30. Broadsides, printed material and publi­cations, some dealing with Union internal conflict.
Box 18 Folder 12
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak and Dress Joint Board: 1925-30. Continued from above.
Box 19 Folder 1
Joint Boards, N.Y. Dress Joint Board: 1933-34, Includes correspondence with Phillip Kapp and Julius Hochman.
Box 19 Folder 2a
Joint Boards, N.Y. Dress Joint Board: 1935-37.
Box 19 Folder 2b
Joint Boards, N.Y. Dress Joint Board: 1938-41. Includes correspondence with Nathaniel M. Minkoff; Joint Board releases and statements.
Box 19 Folder 2c
Joint Boards, N.Y. Dress Joint Board: 1942-50.
Box 19 Folder 3
Joint Boards, N.Y. Dress Joint Board: 1951-57. In c of letter from Hochman to Israel Breslow on Breslow's plan of eliminating Hochman's name as candidate to 1962 Union convention.
Box 19 Folder 4
Joint Boards, N.Y. Dress Joint Board: 1933-47. Agreements, correspondence, proposals, resolutions on negotiating agreement with firms and associations.
Box 19 Folder 5
Joint Board, N.Y. Dress Joint Board: 1950-58. Agreements .
Box 19 Folder 6
Joint Boards, N.Y., Dress Joint Board, Health and Welfare Fund: 1942-49.
Box 19 Folder 7
Joint Boards, N.Y. Dress Joint Board, Health and Welfare Fund: 1950-58.
Box 20 Folder 1
Joint Boards, N.Y. Dress Joint Board, The Organizer: 1933.
Box 20 Folder 2
Joint Boards, N.Y. Dress Joint Board: 1920's-1960's. Printed material.
Box 20 Folder 3
Joint Boards, N.Y. Dress Joint Board: 1930's-60's. Printed material.
Box 20 Folder 4
Joint Boards, Pennsylvania (Northeast Department.): 1936-58. Includes correspondence with Min Lurye Matheson.
Box 20 Folder 5
Joint Boards, Philadelphia: 1925, 1935-57.
Box 20 Folder 6
Joint Boards, San Francisco: 1936-54. Includes correspondence with Jennie Matyas.
Box 20 Folder 7
Joint Boards, Seattle: 1935-36.
Box 20 Folder 8
Joint Boards, Winnipeg: 1935-49, 1953. Includes correspondence with Samuel Herbst on Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union of Canada.
Box 20 Folder 9
K: 1937-50.
Box 20 Folder 10
L: 1933-56. Includes statement for "League for One Big Union," 1933.
Box 20 Folder 11
LaGuardia, Fiorello H. and Lehman, Herbert H.: 1934-42.
Box 20 Folder 12
Labor Bureau and Dress Industry Place­ment Unit: 1939-40.
Box 20 Folder 13
Labor Day: 1944-57. CSZ statements.
Box 21 Folder 1
Labor League for Human Rights: 1945-46. Includes Irving Brown reports on European trade union activities.
Box 21 Folder 2
Labor's Non-Partisan League: 1935-40.
Box 21 Folder 3
Lane, Jesse: 1936-37. Correspondence on CIO and Union activities.
Box 21 Folder 4
League Against Fascism and Dictatorship: 1939.
Box 21 Folder 5
League for Industrial Democracy, Inc.:
Box 21 Folder 5
1934-57. Includes correspondence with Harry W. Laidler.
Box 21 Folder 6
League for Mutual Aid: 1936-56.
Box 21 Folder 7
Legislation: 1934-56.
Box 21 Folder 8
Legislation, Child Labor: 1934-37.
Box 21 Folder 9
Legislation, Civil Rights: 1938-48.
Box 21 Folder 10
Legislation, Foreign and Displaced Persons: 1939-48.
Box 21 Folder 11
Legislation, Labor: 1937-56.
Box 21 Folder 12
Legislation, Unemployment: 1934-57. Includes Wilbur Daniels' Statement on the Hughes-Ashberry Unemployment Insurance Bill, 1957.
Box 21 Folder 13
Locals 9 and 10, N.Y.C.: 1933-43. Includes correspondence with Isidore Sorkin.
Box 21 Folder 14
Local 22, N.Y.C.: 1925, 1930's-40's. Includes Israel Feinberg letter to Julius Portnoy on N.Y. (Cloak and Dress) Joint Board elections, 1925; printed material.
Box 21 Folder 15
Local 22, N.Y.C.: 1930's and 40's. Printed material, continued
Box 22 Folder 1
Local 22, N.Y.C.: 1930-40. Printed material, mostly announcements, leaflets from their Education, Department.
Box 22 Folder 2
Local 22, N.Y.C.: 1930-40's. Printed material, educational matter
Box 22 Folder 3
Local 22, N.Y.C.: 1930-40's. Printed educational matters .
Box 22 Folder 4
V Locals 23, 25 and 31, N.Y.C.: 1930's-50's.
Box 22 Folder 5
Locals 35 and 48, N.Y.C.: 1937-53.
Box 22 Folder 6
Local 60, N.Y.C.: 1934-53. Includes printed material, Dress Presser; Rank and File Group, almost all documents deal with Local elections.
Box 22 Folder 7
Local 60, N.Y.C.: 1934-53.
Box 22 Folder 8
Locals 60-A, 62 and 64, N.Y.C.: 1930's-57.
Box 22 Folder 9
Local 66, N.Y.C.: 1928, 1930's-56.
Box 22 Folder 10
Local 89, N.Y.C.: 1926, 1930's-40. Correspondence with Luigi Antonini and printed material.
Box 22 Folder 11
Local 91, N.Y.C.: 1933-43.
Box 22 Folder 12
Locals 98 and 99, N.Y.C.: 1942-54.
Box 23 Folder 1
Locals 102 and 105, N.Y.C.: Local 106, Baltimore, Md.: 1937-58. Includes GEB Special Committee minutes and reports re separate charter for Snow Suit and Legging Workers, Local 105, 1939.
Box 23 Folder 2
Local 117, N.Y.C.: 1936-54. Includes printed material of Locals 1 and 17 prior to merger as Local 117 in February 1936.
Box 23 Folder 3
Local 117, N.Y.C.: 1936-54.
Box 23 Folder 4
Local 120, Decatur, Ill; Local 122, Atlanta, Ga.: 1935-38. Includes correspondence with John S. Martin.
Box 23 Folder 5
Local 132, N.Y.C.: 1932-43. Includes by-laws; Martin Feldman case, 1938.
Box 23 Folder 6
Locals 142, 145 and 148, N.J.: 1935-37.
Box 23 Folder 7
Local 155, N.Y.C.: 1933-Aug. 1936. Correspondence with Louis Nelson, releases, statements.
Box 23 Folder 8
Local 155, N.Y.C.: Sept. 1936-56.
Box 23 Folder 9
Local 155, N.Y.C.: 1933-53. Printed material, almost all dealing with Local elections.
Box 23 Folder 10
Locals, Southern: 1949-57. Includes John S. Martin and Abraham Plotkin letters
Box 23 Folder 11
Locals, Miscellaneous: 1920's-30. Includes Local 2, N.Y.C., and Local 184, Seattle, Wash.
Box 24 Folder 1
Local Managers' (N.Y. Dress) Conferences: 1933, 1939-45. Minutes.
Box 24 Folder 2
Local Mgrs.' (N.Y. Dress) Conferences: 1952-55.
Box 24 Folder 3
log. Mgrs.' (N.Y. Dress) Conferences: 1956-58.
Box 24 Folder 4
Lurye (Matheson), Min: 1936-44.
Box 24 Folder 5
Lurye, William, Case: 1949-50. Includes Min Lurye (Matheson) letters
Box 24 Folder 6
Lurye, William, Case: 1951-52. Includes copies of correspondence between Julius Hochman and District Attorney's office.
Box 24 Folder 7
Lurye, William, Case: 1949. Newspaper clippings.
Box 24 Folder 8
Lurye, William, Case: 1950. Newspaper clippings.
Box 24 Folder 9
M: 1934-55.
Box 24 Folder 10
Madwin, Max, Case: 1942.
Box 25 Folder 1
Manuscripts and Outlines by CSZ on Union and Political Subjects: 1920's-40's. Contains some completed articles and statements.
Box 25 Folder 2
Manuscripts and Outlines: 1920's-40's.
Box 25 Folder 3
May Day Celebrations: 1930's-40's. Includes correspondence, printed material on Local participation.
Box 25 Folder 4
May Day Celebrations: 1930's-40's.
Box 25 Folder 5
Medical Matters: 1939-58.
Box 25 Folder 6
Membership Meetings, Local 22: 1933-41. Outlines and minutes.
Box 25 Folder 7
Membership Meetings, Local 22: 1942-50.
Box 25 Folder 8
Membership Meetings, Local 22: 1951-57.
Box 25 Folder 9
Minkoff, Nathaniel M.: 1931-33. Includes activities of Educational Com­mittee of the Socialist Party, Bronx Branch; personal material.
Box 25 Folder 10
Minkoff, Nathaniel M.: 1934-49.
Box 25 Folder 11
Minority Crafts Branch; Local 22: 1932-34. Minutes.
Box 25 Folder 12
Minutes of Various Committees: 1931-47.
Box 26 Folder 1
Miscellaneous Documents: 1932-39. Mostly letters from Local members.
Box 26 Folder 2
Miscellaneous Documents: 1940-57.
Box 26 Folder 3
Miscellaneous Documents: 1930's-40's. Mostly printed material; includes non­union matters.
Box 26 Folder 4
Miscellaneous Documents. Printed material.
Box 26 Folder 5
Mooney, Tom: 1929-40. Includes letters from Tom Mooney Molders' Defense Committee.
Box 26 Folder 6
N: 1933-50.
Box 26 Folder 7
National Association for the Advance­ment of Colored People (NAACP): 1933-58. Includes correspondence with Herbert Hill, Jackie Robinson, Walter White, Roy Wilkins on civil rights and labor matters.
Box 26 Folder 8
NAACP: 1962. Representatives Adam Clayton Powell and Herbert Zelenko investigation of Union discrimination; includes AFL-CIO statement, Herbert Hill testimony, copy of A. Philip Randolph Itr. to David Dubinsky, CSZ resignation statement as trustee from Legal Defense and Educational Fund of NAACP; Jewish Labor Committee reports.
Box 26 Folder 9
NAACP: 1962. ILGWU-NAACP controversy, continued
Box 26 Folder 10
National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax: 1941-48.
Box 27 Folder 1
National Committee for Labor Israel, Histadrut (prior to 1940 National Com­mittee for Labor Palestine): 1934-48.
Box 27 Folder 2
National Committee for Labor Israel, Histadrut: 1949-58.
Box 27 Folder 3
National Community Relations Advisory Council: 1944-58.
Box 27 Folder 4
National Negro Congress: 1936-37.
Box 27 Folder 5
National Recovery Administration: 1933-34. Includes reports of Commission.
Box 27 Folder 6
National Sharecroppers Fund, Inc.: 1935, 1940-48.
Box 27 Folder 7
National Urban League: 1933-49. Includes correspondence with James H. Hubert (N.Y. Urban League) on campaign to organize Negro dressmakers, 1933.
Box 27 Folder 8
National Urban League: 1951-55.
Box 27 Folder 9
National Urban League: 1956-59. Includes correspondence with Lester B. Granger, Thomas Young; CSZ address at Urban League Conference, 1959.
Box 27 Folder 10
National Urban League: 1937. Memorandum, arbitration proceedings between Union and Urban League following Union's picketing Chicago Urban League office; correspondents includes Morris Bialis, Abraham Plotkin, David Dubinsky, Arnold Hill (director), Department. of Industrial Relations of League.
Box 28 Folder 1
Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union: 1933-35. Includes NTWIU proposal to improve conditions of workers in dress industry and for united front to conduct strike, June 1933, and Executive Board reply, July; Irving Potash proposal to unify for strike and to establish one Dressmakers Union, Aug. 1933; Ben Gold letter to unify dressmakers into one union and CSZ statement, Aug. 1934.
Box 28 Folder 2
Negro Garment Workers: 1930's-40's.
Box 28 Folder 3
Negro Labor Committee: 1935-53. Includes correspondence Frank R. Crosswaith.
Box 28 Folder 4
New Leader: 1943-46.
Box 28 Folder 5
New York Dressmakers' Strike: 1933, 1936, 1947.
Box 28 Folder 6
New York State Federation of Labor: 1935-57. Includes Union resolutions submitted at State conventions.
Box 28 Folder 7
Newspapers, Correspondence: 1934-58. Includes CSZ letter to Russian newspaper, Izvestia, replying to letter addressed to Local 22 from Russian worker, 1955.
Box 28 Folder 8
0: 1945, 1957. Letters from Paul Olberg, 1945; correspondence with Rita Oberbeck, 1957.
Box 28 Folder 9
Organization Committee, Local 22: 1933-48. Minutes, reports.
Box 28 Folder 10
Organization for Rehabilitation Through Training - In Industry and Agriculture (ORT): 1935-48. Includes ORT activities in Europe.
Box 28 Folder 11
Organizations, Support for: 1937-58. Includes National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 1957; War Relief Fund, American Society for Russian Relief, Inc., 1945-46.
Box 28 Folder 12
Organizing Activities, Local 22: 1949-57.
Box 28 Folder 13
P: 1937-57.
Box 28 Folder 14
Permits to Work: 1933-34.
Box 29 Folder la
Pesotta, Rose: 1934-44.
Box 29 Folder 1b
Pioneer Youth of America, Inc.: 1933-48.
Box 29 Folder 2
Poetry and Songs, Local 22 and Affiliated Locals: 1930's-50's.
Box 29 Folder 3
Politics: 1936-55. Includes Thomas E. Dewey letters during campaign for district attorney, 1937; CSZ letter to Dean Acheson on combatting Communist aggression, 1950; Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1955.
Box 29 Folder 4
Politics, Liberal Party: 1952-58. Includes correspondence with Ben Davidson, CSZ speech at Liberal Party-Trade Union Council, 1958.
Box 29 Folder 5
Politics, Liberal Party, Dressmakers Liberal Party Club: 1949, 1954-57.
Box 29 Folder 6
Politics, Social Democratic Federation of N.Y.C.: 1937-57.
Box 29 Folder 7
Politics, Socialist Party: 1935-58. Includes correspondence with Norman Thomas, Socialist organi­zations, re civil liberties, political matters, war policy, communism.
Box 29 Folder 8
Politics, Trade Union Committee for a Labor Party: 1936. Letters from Elmer Brown.
Box 29 Folder 9
Progressive Groups, Dressmakers Pro­gressive Group, Local 22: 1933-50 's. Letters, releases, statements, reports, printed material mainly dealing with Local elections.
Box 29 Folder 10
Progressive Groups, Dressmakers Pro­gressive Group, Local 22: 1933-50's. Continued
Box 29 Folder 11
Progressive Groups, Dressmakers Pro­gressive Group, Local 22: 1933-50's. Continued
Box 29 Folder 12
Progressive Groups, Dressmakers Pro­gressive Group, Local 22: 1933-50's. Continued
Box 29 Folder 13
Progressive Groups, Dressmakers Pro­gressive Group, Local 22: 1933-50's. Continued
Box 30 Folder 1
Progressive Groups, Locals: 1935-36. Includes minutes of Needle Trades Pro­gressive Groups .
Box 30 Folder 2
Progressive Groups, Locals: 1935-36. Continued
Box 30 Folder 3
Progressive Unionist: 1936. Council of Needle Trades Progressive Groups .
Box 30 Folder 4
Progressive Trade Unionists: 1935-36. Correspondence with Mildred Allmendinger.
Box 30 Folder 5
Provisional Labor Committees: 1936-39.
Box 30 Folder 6
Puerto Rico: 1935-60. Includes correspondence with William D. Lopez; Robert Gladnick, Nelson A. Rockefeller letter re advertise­ment, "We, Too, Fight Delinquency," 1959.
Box 30 Folder 7
Puerto Rico, Labor Advisory Committee on Puerto Rican Affairs: 1952-54.
Box 30 Folder 8
Puerto Rico, Labor Advisory Committee on Puerto Rican Affairs: 1955-57.
Box 30 Folder 9
Puerto Rico, Mayor's Committee on Puerto Rican Affairs in NYC: 1954-57.
Box 30 Folder 10
Puerto Rico, Needle Workers Union of Puerto Rico, Local 300, ILGWU: 1934-37, 1939. Includes correspondence with Teresa Anglero, Rose Pesotta, re organizing activities, Local matters, Code for Needlework Industry (n.d.).
Box 30 Folder 11
Puerto Rico, Wage and Hour Hearings: 1955-57.
Box 30 Folder 12
Puerto Rico, Wage and Hour Hearings: 1955-57.
Box 30 Folder 13
R: 1936-58. Includes correspondence re Remington-Rand Co. strike, 1936-37; letters to Franklin D. Roosevelt re labor and war matters, 1942-43.
Box 30 Folder 14
Racketeering, Anti-: 1949-54. Correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings re garment industry and other unions.
Box 31 Folder 1
Rand School of Social Science: 1936-55.
Box 31 Folder 2
Rank and File, Left Wing, and Opposition Groups, Local 22: 1932-43. Correspondence, resolutions, statements, minutes and form letters
Box 31 Folder 3
Rank and File, Left Wing and Opposition Groups, Local 22: 1944-55. Correspondence, continued
Box 31 Folder 4
Rank and File, Left Wing and Opposition Groups, Local 22: l930's-50's. Printed material dealing with Local elections, and all facets of Local activities.
Box 31 Folder 5
Rank and File, Left Wing and Opposition Groups, Local 22: n.d. Printed material.
Box 31 Folder 6
Rank and File, Left Wing and Opposition Groups, Local 22: 1930's. Printed material, Dressmakers Unity Committee of International Members and the Industrial Union.
Box 31 Folder 7
Rank and File, Left Wing and Opposition Groups, Local 22: 1930's. Printed material, United Dressmakers Committee of the Left Wing Group and Active Members Group.
Box 31 Folder 8
Rank and File, Left Wing and Opposition Groups, Local 22: 1930's. Includes Dressmakers United Front Committee, Dressmakers Industrial Union.
Box 31 Folder 9
Rank and File, Left Wing and Opposition Groups, Local 22: 1930's. Publications, includes Dressmakers Voice.
Box 31 Folder 10
Rank and File, Left Wing and Opposition Groups to ILGWU: 1920's-30's. Includes Left Wing and Rank and File Groups, Locals 10, 22, 60, 89.
Box 31 Folder 11
Red Cross Drives: 1948-57.
Box 31 Folder 12
Releases and Announcements: 1933-34.
Box 31 Folder 13
Releases and Announcements: 1935-36.
Box 32 Folder 1
Releases and Announcements: 1937-39.
Box 32 Folder 2
Releases and Announcements: 1940-42.
Box 32 Folder 3
Releases and Announcements: 1943-46.
Box 32 Folder 4
Releases and Announcements: 1947-50's.
Box 32 Folder 5
Religious Matters: 1936-46.
Box 32 Folder 6
Religious Matters, National Religion and Labor Foundation: 1937-48.
Box 32 Folder 7
Resolutions, by Executive Board or Membership Meetings of Local 22: 1933-42. Includes Executive Board resolution protesting GEB action in removing Local 9 administration from office, Jan. 1934.
Box 32 Folder 8
Resolutions by Executive Board or Membership Meetings of Local 22: 1946-57.
Box 32 Folder 9
Resolutions Submitted by Workers of Shops: 1930's-40's.
Box 32 Folder 10
S: 1935-57. Includes CSZ comments on right-left struggle in the needle trades for Joel Seidman's book. The Needle Trades, 1941; Mrs. Morris Sigman letter thanking CSZ for his efforts in helping name a liberty ship after her late husband, Morris Sigman, February 1944.
Box 32 Folder 11
St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: 1932-42.
Box 32 Folder 12
Sanatoriums, Deborah Sanatorium: 1933-58.
Box 32 Folder 13
Sanatoriums, Denver (Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society): 1934-57. Includes controversy between administrators and opposition group, 1944-49.
Box 32 Folder 14
Sanatoriums, Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital: 1942-57.
Box 33 Folder 1
Sanatoriums, Los Angeles Sanatorium, City of Hope: 1937-45.
Box 33 Folder 2
Sanatoriums, Los Angeles, City of Hope: 1946-57.
Box 33 Folder 3
Schneider, Joseph: 1933.
Box 33 Folder 4
Seottsboro Case: 1931-39. Correspondence with Scottsboro Defense Committee.
Box 33 Folder 5
Sick Benefits and Relief Fund, Local 22: 1927-39, 1953-58.
Box 33 Folder 6
Simpson, Lawrence, Defense Committee: 1936.
Box 33 Folder 7
Social Security Matters: 1934-38.
Box 33 Folder 8
Socialist Party: 1930's.
Box 33 Folder 9
Socialist Workers Party: 1930's.
Box 33 Folder 10
Soderberg, John G.: 1936-37, 1942.
Box 33 Folder 11
Spanish Dressmakers: 1933-34.
Box 33 Folder 12
Speeches, Statements and Articles of CSZ: 1930's-50's.
Box 33 Folder 13
Speeches, Statements and Articles of CSZ: 1930's-50's. Includes article, "Changes in the Jewish Labor Movement," Feb. 1952.
Box 33 Folder 14
Speeches, Statements and Articles of CSZ: 1920's-50's. Newspaper clipping files.
Box 33 Folder 15
Special Industry Committee, No. 22: 1955-56. Wage and Hour hearings for the garment industry in Puerto Rico."
Box 33 Folder 16
Special Industry Committee No. 22 in Puerto Rico: 1955-56. Continued
Box 34 Folder 1
Tailor's Progress, Controversy: 1944.
Box 34 Folder 2
Trade Associations in Dress Industry: 1934-40's.
Box 34 Folder 3
Trips Abroad by CSZ: 1945-46. Europe, as representative of the Jewish Labor Committee on invitation of the Norwegian Labor Federation fie labor organizations of Sweden and Denmark; includes CSZ's investigations and reports of con­ditions in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland, France and England.
Box 34 Folder 4
Trips Abroad by CSZ: 1945-46. Europe, continued
Box 34 Folder 5
Trips Abroad by CSZ: 1948. Israel.
Box 34 Folder 6
Trips Abroad by CSZ: 1934. Puerto Rico.
Box 34 Folder 7
Trips Abroad by CSZ: 1958. Geneva, Switzerland, as delegate to the Textile Industrial Commission of the Int'l. Labor Organization.
Box 34 Folder 8
Trotsky, Leon, and Trotskyites: 1930's-47. Letters, statements from American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, 1936-37; releases and copies of letters petitioning the Nuremberg tribunal to examine charge made at Moscow trials that Trotsky conspired for war with Nazi Germany, 1946-47.
Box 34 Folder 9
U:1933-55.
Box 34 Folder 10
Unemployment: 1931-34.
Box 34 Folder 10
Includes form letters from Emergency Conference on Unemployment, 1931-32; Joint Committee on Unemployment, 1934; United Action Conference on Work, Relief and Unemployment, 1934.
Box 34 Folder 11
Unemployment, Garment Industry: 1930's-40's.
Box 34 Folder 12
Union for Democratic Action: 1941-46.
Box 34 Folder 13
Union Health Center, Los Angeles: 1953, 1955.
Box 34 Folder 14
Union Health Center, NYC: 1933-58.
Box 34 Folder 15
Union Labor Life Insurance; 1936-57.
Box 35 Folder 1
Unions, General, A-O: 1934-53.
Box 35 Folder 2
Unions, General, P-Z: 1933-37.
Box 35 Folder 3
Agricultural Workers Union, National: 1946-58. Correspondence with H.L.Mitchell; includes Nat'l. Farm Labor Union.
Box 35 Folder 4
Automobile Workers of America, United: 1936-54. Includes letters from group called "Unity," 1938.
Box 35 Folder 5
Bags and Baggage, International Brother­hood of Red Caps: 1937-39.
Box 35 Folder 6
Building Service Employees International Union: 1934-37. Correspondence and Local 22 releases re 1934 elevator strike of Local 32-B.
Box 35 Folder 7
Clothing Workers of America, Amalgamated: 1934-52.
Box 35 Folder 8
Doll and Toy Workers Union, International
Box 35 Folder 8
Union of: 1949, 1956-57. Includes correspondence re jurisdictional disputes between Doll and Toy Workers Union and Local 132 of ILGWU.
Box 35 Folder 9
Electrical Workers, International Brotherhood: 1935-37.
Box 35 Folder 10
Fur Workers Union: 1935-56.
Box 35 Folder 11
Hosiery Workers, American Federation: 1937-55.
Box 35 Folder 12
Hospital Employees' Union: 1936.
Box 35 Folder 13
Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union: 1934-56.
Box 35 Folder 14
Ladies' Apparel Shipping Clerks Union, Local 19953: 1935-36.
Box 35 Folder 15
Longshoremen's Association, International: 1953-57.
Box 35 Folder 16
Newspaper Guild of New York, and American Newspaper Guild: 1935-47.
Box 36 Folder 1
Office Employees International Union: 1936-55. Includes correspondence re negotiations, agreements with Local 22.
Box 36 Folder 2
Pocketbook Workers Union: 1937-43.
Box 36 Folder 3
Retail Unions: 1936-56.
Box 36 Folder 4
Rubber Workers Union: 1936-58.
Box 36 Folder 5
Seafarers International Union: 1936-58. Also includes Norman Thomas statement on internal conflict in National Maritime Union, 1950.
Box 36 Folder 6
Sleeping Car Porters, Brotherhood of: 1937-58.
Box 36 Folder 7
State, County and Municipal Workers of America: 1936-55.
Box 36 Folder 8
Steel Workers Organizing Committee; 1936-37.
Box 36 Folder 9
Teachers Union: 1934-58.
Box 36 Folder 10
Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, International Brotherhood of: 1938-56.
Box 36 Folder 11
Technical, Editorial and Office Assistants Union: 1935.
Box 36 Folder 12
Textile Workers Union of America: 1934-54. Includes agreement between Textile Workers Union and ILGWU, 1934; Textile Workers Organizing Committee reports and incoming letters on devel­oping situations in organizing, 1937-38.
Box 36 Folder 13
Theatrical Unions: 1935-37, 1947.
Box 36 Folder 14
Transport Workers Union: 1935-38.
Box 36 Folder 15
Trucking Industry: 1949-56.
Box 36 Folder 16
Yiddish Actors and Yiddish Writers Union: 1936-45.
Box 36 Folder 17
Cloakmakers United Front Committee United Front Committee of Cloakmakers United Cloak and Dressmakers Progressive League Unity Committee, Cloak, Dress and Furrier Unions Printed material, 1930's.
Box 36 Folder 18
United Hebrew Trades: 1934-50.
Box 37 Folder 1
United Jewish Appeal: 1940-53.
Box 37 Folder 2
United States Government, Congress and Departments: 1934-58, 1964. Includes Department. of Labor, President's Com­mittee on Equal Employment Opportunity, May 1964.
Box 37 Folder 3
U.S. Government, N.Y. City and State: 1934-58.
Box 37 Folder 4
V: 1935-54.
Box 37 Folder 5
Veterans: 1946-56. Includes Jewish War Veterans, Veterans League of America.
Box 37 Folder 6
Vrataric, Frank: 1936.
Box 37 Folder 7
W: 1933-57. Includes CSZ letter to J.H. Waldman on Communism and Communists in America, 1941.
Box 37 Folder 8
WEVD: 1934-40.
Box 37 Folder 9
Welfare Council of New York: 1939-45.
Box 37 Folder 10
Wiesen, Max, and Sons, Co.: 1943, 1952-56.
Box 37 Folder 11
Women's Matters: 1936-43.
Box 37 Folder 12
Women's Trade Union League: 1933-42.
Box 37 Folder 13
Women's Trade Union League: 1943-55.
Box 37 Folder 14
Workers' Defense League: 1937-58.
Box 37 Folder 15
Workmen's Circle: 1933-41. Includes Dressmakers Branch 122.
Box 37 Folder 16
Workmen's Circle: 1942-58.
Box 37 Folder 17
Works Progress Administration: 1934-39. Correspondence re unemployment, appropriation of fund relief, labor activities.
Box 38 Folder 1
WPA, Sewing Project: 1935-39.
Box 38 Folder 2
WPA, Teachers Union: 1936-39.
Box 38 Folder 3
WPA, Workers Alliance of America: 1935-39. Includes letters from Workers Unemployed Union of N.Y., 1935.
Box 38 Folder 4
World War II: 1930's-49. Form letters, circulars from committees against war; post-1938: material on war effort and aid to Allies, letters to Cordell Hull, Local 22 resolutions, report and recommendations on effect of war on New York's women's garment industry, n.d.
Box 38 Folder 5
World War II, American League Against War and Fascism: 1933-36. Correspondence, releases, printed material.
Box 38 Folder 6
World War II, American League Against War and Fascism: 1933-34. Minutes and reports.
Box 38 Folder 7
World War II, Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription: 1946-47.
Box 38 Folder 8
World War II, Government Agencies: 1942-45. Includes Israel Feinberg recommendations to War Work Emergency Committee of GEB on garment industry, Feb. 1942.
Box 38 Folder 9
Jewish Peoples Committee for United Action Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism: 1937-45.
Box 38 Folder 10
World War II, Keep America Out of War Committee: 1938-40. Includes CSZ letter of resignation, 1940.
Box 38 Folder 11
World War II, Members in Armed Forces: 1943-45. Correspondence
Box 38 Folder 12
World War II, Refugees: 1935-47. Includes Emergency Rescue Committee, Inc., ltrs, from Francis A. Henson of the Emergency Committee in Aid of Political Refugees from Nazism.
Box 38 Folder 13
World War II, United Service Organi­zation (USO): 1942-46.
Box 38 Folder 14
World Youth Congress: 1938.
Box 38 Folder 15
World's Fair: 1939. Union's purchasing N.Y. Fair Bonds.
Box 38 Folder 16
Y: 1938-57.
Box 39 Folder 1
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research: 1939-45, 1950-52.
Box 39 Folder 2
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; 1953-58.
Box 39 Folder 3
Z: 1942-58.
Box 39 Folder 4
Zimmerman, Israel: 1946.
Box 39 Folder 5-11
Photographs.
II. Subject files, 1919-1932.
Documents dealing mainly with left-wing and right-wing struggle in the needle trades. Substantial material on the garment industry and its affiliates. Communist and anti-communist activities in the USA. (1919-32)
Scope and Contents
Types of items include: correspondence, reports, minutes, broadside collection, newspaper clippings.
Box 40 Folder 1
American Civil Liberties Union: 1927, Controversy over position of the ACLU concerning the Committee for the Defense of Needle Trades Workers.
Box 40 Folder 2
Anarchist Workers' Group (Cloak and Dressmakers Union): 1920's.
Box 40 Folder 3
Breslow, Israel; Brown, Bishop William, of Montgomery, Ala.: 1928, 1931.
Box 40 Folder 4
Cases: 1921, 1925, 1927, 1932. Includes charges against CSZ in the above years (except 1927); Supreme Court, N.Y. County, Luigi Antonini vs Louis Hyman, et al.: Salvatore Ninfo vs Louis Hyman, et al., and the Association of Dress Manufacturers, Inc., vs Louis Hyman, et al., 1927.
Box 40 Folder 5
Clothing Workers Union, Amalgamated: 1920's-30's.
Box 40 Folder 6
Committees, Committee of 15, 25, 50 and 100: 1920's-30's.
Box 40 Folder 7
Communist Party U.S.A. (Workers /communist/Party): 1925-29. Correspondence; includes Herbert Benjamin letter,
Box 40 Folder 7
1928; William Z. Foster letter, 1928; letters from Benjamin Gitlow, Charles E. Ruthenberg and William W. Weinstone.
Box 40 Folder 8
Communist Party U.S.A.: 1918-30 's. Printed material dealing mainly with all facets of trade unionism especially the garment industry; includes constitutions of the Communist Party of America, 1920; minutes of district meetings, reports of committees, statements.
Box 40 Folder 9
Communist Party U.S.A.: 1918-30's. Printed material, cont'd; includes reports of Earl Browder on American trade union movement.
Box 40 Folder 10
Communist Party U.S.A.: 1918-30's. Printed material, continued.
Box 40 Folder 11
Communist Party U.S.A.: 1920's-30's. Publications, includes the Red Needle.
Box 40 Folder 12
Communist Party U.S.A. (Central Execu­tive Committee), Industrial Depart­ment: 1920's.
Box 40 Folder 13
Communist Party U.S.A., Section Meetings: 1921.
Box 40 Folder 14
Communist Party U.S.A., Majority Group (post-1933 known as the Opposition Group), Lovestone Group: 1929-39, Letters, bulletins, reports, statements, material from Revolutionary Age.
Box 40 Folder 15
Communist Party U.S.A., Majority Group (post-1933 known as the Opposition Group), Lovestone Group: 1929-39.
Box 40 Folder 16
Communist Party U.S.A., Majority Group (post-1933 known as the Opposition Group),Lovestone Group: 1929-39.
Box 41 Folder 1
Communist Party U.S.A., Majority Group (post-1933 known as the Opposition Group), Lovestone Group: 1929-39.
Box 41 Folder 2
Communist Party U.S.A., Majority Group (post-1933 known as the Opposition Group), Lovestone Group: 1929-39.
Box 41 Folder 3
Communist Party U.S.A., Majority Group (post-1933 known as the Opposition Group), Lovestone Group: 1929-39.
Box 41 Folder 4
Communist Party, Opposition Group: 1933-39. Letters, form letters, reports.
Box 41 Folder 5
Communist Party, Opposition Group: 1933-39. Printed material.
Box 41 Folder 6
Communist Party, Opposition Group: 1933-39.
Box 41 Folder 7
Communist Party, Opposition Group: 1933-39.
Box 41 Folder 8
Communist Party, Opposition Group: 1933-39.
Box 41 Folder 9
Conference for Progressive Labor Action: c. 1931.
Box 42 Folder 1
Dress Manufacturers Association and Ladies Waist and Dressmakers Union (Local 22): 1919-20. Minutes of conferences affecting the welfare of dress industry.
Box 42 Folder 2
Dressmakers Progressive League and Dressmakers Trade Union Circle, and Dressmakers United Front Committee: 1930's. Programs, printed material.
Box 42 Folder 3
Dressmakers Welfare Club: 1920's.
Box 42 Folder 4
Fur and Leather Workers Union, Int'l.: 1920's-57. Printed material from various fractions of Furriers.
Box 42 Folder 5
Fur and Leather Workers Union, Int'l.: 1920's-57.
Box 42 Folder 6
Fur and Leather Workers Union, Int'l.: 1920's-57.
Box 42 Folder 7
Fur and Leather Workers Union, Int'l.: 1920's-57.
Box 42 Folder 8
Fur and Leather Workers Union, Int'l.: 1920's-57.
Box 42 Folder 9
Fur and Leather Workers Union, Int'l.: 1920's-57.
Box 42 Folder 10
internal Strife, ILGWU: 1926-28, 1931. Includes newspaper clippings.
Box 42 Folder 11
International Council of Trade and Industrial Unions, American Bureau: 1920's.
Box 42 Folder 12
Joint Action Committee, Locals 2, 9, 22: 1920's.
Box 42 Folder 13
Joint Action Committee, Locals 2, 9, 22: 1920's.
Box 42 Folder 14
Left Groups of the Cloakmakers' Locals: 1920's-30's.
Box 43 Folder 1
Local 1, N.Y.C.: 1920's-30's.
Box 43 Folder 2
Local 9, N.Y.C.: 1920's-30's.
Box 43 Folder 3
Local 10, N.Y.C.: 1920's-50's. Includes The Cutter. 1926-35.
Box 43 Folder 4
Local 10, N.Y.C.: 1920's-30's.
Box 43 Folder 5
Local 10, N.Y.C.: 1920's-30's.
Box 43 Folder 6
Local 35, N.Y.C.: 1920's-30's.
Box 43 Folder 7
Local 50, Philadelphia, Pa.: 1920's.
Box 43 Folder 8
Local 72, N.Y.C.: 1920's.
Box 43 Folder 9
Local 100, Chicago, Ill.: 1919-20's.
Box 43 Folder 10
Losovsky, A. (Alec Levine): 1920's.
Box 43 Folder 11
Lovestone, Jay: 1927-40. Correspondence between Zimmerman and Lovestone; letters and reports from individuals to Lovestone on all facets of trade union activities; includes letters and reports from Paul Berg, Al Sands, Elmer Hamm, Joe Engelstein, Glenn Shadduck and Jack Hering.
Box 43 Folder 12
Millinery Workers Union: 1920's-30's.
Box 44 Folder 1
Miscellaneous Documents. From right and left wings, many not identified or dated, almost all dealing with garment industry.
Box 44 Folder 2
National Workers Committee for Organizing Jewish Workers in Israel: 1920's.
Box 44 Folder 3
Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union: 1920's-30's. Letters, reports, statements and substantial printed material re all facets of Union activities.
Box 44 Folder 4
Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union: 1920's-30's.
Box 44 Folder 5
Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union: 1920's-30's.
Box 44 Folder 6
Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union: 1920's-30's.
Box 44 Folder 7
Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union: 1920's-30's.
Box 44 Folder 8
Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union: 1928-31. Dressmakers Bulletin.
Box 44 Folder 9
Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union: 1928-34. The Needle Worker. Boston Needle Worker.
Box 44 Folder 10
Needle Trades Workers Unity League: 1920's-30's.
Box 44 Folder 11
New Workers School: 1932. Syllabus for fall term.
Box 44 Folder 12
New York Cloakmakers Union Strike: 1926.
Box 45 Folder 1
New York Dressmakers Union Strikes: 1929, 1932.
Box 45 Folder 2
President's Office, ILGWU: 1923-27. Includes letters, form letters, GEB statements re internal strife.
Box 45 Folder 3
Red International of Labor Unions (R.I.L.U.) and Needle Workers International Propaganda and Action Committee (IPAC): 1920's. Reports and resolutions.
Box 45 Folder 4
Shop Delegate Propaganda Committee: 1920's.
Box 45 Folder 5
Silk and Dye Workers Union: 1930's-Strike in Paterson, N.J.
Box 45 Folder 6
Trade Union Educational League: 1922-24, 1927. Correspondence and letters from William Z. Foster, J.W. Johnstone, Jack Jampolsky.
Box 45 Folder 7
Trade Union Educational League: 1920's. Minutes, printed material, reports of activities in needle trades.
Box 45 Folder 8
Trade Union Educational League: 1920's.
Box 45 Folder 9
Trade Union Educational League: 1920's.
Box 45 Folder 10
Workers Council of the Cloak and Suit Industry and Workers Council of the White Goods Industry: 1919.
Box 45 Folder 11
Workers Council of the Waist and Dress Industry: 1919.
Box 45 Folder 12
Yar Yachno: 1930's-40. Letters, leaflets. Personal Documents, Publications, and Newspaper Clippings.
Box 45 Folder 13
Personal Documents. Includes letters from Samuel Lipman during his stay in prison, 1919-20; letters from individuals in Soviet Union.
Box 45 Folder 14
Personal Documents, prior to 1933. Printed items.
Box 45 Folder 15
Personal Documents, prior to 1933. Printed items.
Box 46 Folder 1
Publications. Union Worker (issued by the Union Workers Group), March 1926-Feb. 1927; The Free Word (issued by the Unemployed Committee of the Cloak and Dressmakers Union), Dec. 1941-Aug. 1942,
Box 46 Folder 2
Publications. Monthly Jewish Bulletin (issued by Majority Group of the Communist Party), Dec, 1929-June 1930; The Workers Struggle (issued by the Communist Party USA), Dec. 1929-June 1930.
Box 46 Folder 3
Publications. Union Vanguard, Jan. 1938-Mar. 1942; The Cloak Finisher (issued by Local 9 opposition). Jan-March 1942; Yiddisher Kemfer (organ of the Poale-zion-Zeire Zion of America), Jan. 1939.
Box 46 Folder 4
Publications. The Voice of Unity (issued by the National Organization Committee of the ILGWU), . 1928.
Box 46 Folder 5
Publications: 1920's-30's.
Box 46 Folder 6
Publications: 1920's-30's.
Box 47
Original Broadsides.
Box 48
Original Broadsides.
Box 49 Folder 1
Newspaper Clippings Files: 1925. Files dealing with garment industry.
Box 49 Folder 2
Newspaper Clippings Files; 1926.
Box 49 Folder 3
Newspaper Clippings Files: 1927.
Box 49 Folder 4
Newspaper Clippings Files: 1928-30.
Box 49 Folder 5
Newspaper Clippings Files: 1931-32.
Box 49 Folder 6-7
Newspaper Clippings Files: 1933.
Box 49 Folder 8-9
Newspaper Clippings Files: 1934.
Box 49 Folder 10-11
Newspaper Clippings Files: 1935.
Box 50 Folder 1
Newspaper Clippings Files: 1936.
Box 50 Folder 2
Newspaper Clippings Files: 1937.
Box 50 Folder 3
Newspaper Clippings Files: 1938.
Box 50 Folder 4-5
Newspaper Clippings Files: 1939.
Box 50 Folder 6
Newspaper Clippings Files: 1940.
Box 50 Folder 7-9
Newspaper Clippings Files: 1941.
Box 50 Folder 10
Newspaper Clippings Files: 1945. Trips abroad.
Box 50 Folder 11
Newspaper Clippings Files.