Guide to the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Research Department Records,
1907-1948 [bulk 1910-1940].

Collection Number: 5780/056

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

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Compiled by:
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Date completed:
January, 1981
EAD encoding:
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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Research Department records, 1907-1948 [bulk 1910-1940].
Collection Number:
5780/056
Creator:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Research Dept.
Quantity:
6.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Financial reports, administrative reports, meeting minutes, correspondence.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Financial and administrative reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, and other materials documenting the activities and interests of the ILGWU Research Department.

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The Research Department was organized to coordinate the ILGWU's investigative operations. It provided Union leaders with information on wages, working conditions, economic conditions, and other matters in the women's garment industry. The Department also collected and housed documents from Union administrative staff that were deemed substantive and of lasting value to the Union, whether produced internally or externally. The information gathered by the Department was of particular value during labor disputes and contract negotiations.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Financial and administrative reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, and other materials documenting the activities and interests of the ILGWU Research Department.
Much of the material concerns various strikes, including the New York cloakmakers' strikes of 1926 and 1929, as well as the "Protocol of Peace" of 1910. There are some additional items dealing with the New York Cloak Joint Board. A good portion of the material is administrative in nature.
Notable individuals represented in this collection include: Louis Brandeis; August Claessens; Julius Henry Cohen; A. J. Muste; Benjamin Schlesinger; Norman Thomas; Alexander Trachtenberg; and B.C. Vladeck. Organizations include various joint boards of the union throughout the United States and the Workers Party of America. Subjects include communism and the union; conventions of the ILGWU; labor negotiations; labor disputes; strikes (particularly in New York City); unemployment insurance; and wages in the garment industry.
SUBJECTS

Names:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941.
Claessens, August, 1885-1954.
Cohen, Julius Henry, b. 1873.
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967.
Schlesinger, Benjamin, 1876-1932.
Trachtenberg, Alexander.
Vladeck, B. (Baruch Charney), 1886-1935.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. New York Cloak Joint Board.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Convention.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Research Dept.
Workers Party of America.

Subjects:
Clothing workers--Labor unions--United States.
Communism--United States.
Insurance, Unemployment--United States.
Labor unions and communism--United States.
Labor union locals.
Strikes and lockouts--Clothing trade--New York (State)--New York.
Strikes and lockouts--Clothing trade--United States.
Labor disputes--New York (State)--New York.
Labor disputes--United States.
Wages--Clothing workers--United States.

Form and Genre Terms:
Administrative records
Correspondence
Financial reports
Minutes

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Cite As:
International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Research Department records, 1907-1948 [bulk 1910-1940]. 5780/056. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
RELATED MATERIAL

5780. International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
5780/078. Research Department. Reports, 1938- .
5780/105. Research Department. Lazare Teper. Records.
5780/123. Research Department. Files.
5780/148. Research Department. Wages and hours files, 1938-1942, 1950-1975.
5780/163. Research Department. US National Industry Recovery Administration (NIRA) Hearings files, 1933-1937.
5780/168. Research Department. Files, 1890-1971.
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
I. Subject files.
Communism, Workers Party of America: 1924-26. Includes conference communications from Industrial Council and from Trade Union Educational League.
Box 1 Folder 1a
Communism, Workers Party of America: Oct. 15, 1921. Report on Communist meeting re organizing in New York Joint Board.
Box 1 Folder 1b
Communism, Workers Party of America: 1920s. Includes "Statement on the Needle Trade Situation;" "Proposed Plan for a Shop Delegates System of Organization for the ILGWU:" minutes of TUEL conferences.
Box 1 Folder 1c
Conference on One Union for Cloakmakers and Dressmakers: 1933. Draft resolution.
Box 1 Folder 2
Conventions, Union: 1917, 1920. GEB report to special convention re Local 1 controversy; brief submitted to Appeal Committee of GEB re election of delegates by William Bloom and Harry Wagner.
Box 1 Folder 3
Conventions, Union: 1922, 1925. Includes declaration of principles by the Progressive delegates to the convention; list of delegates.
Box 1 Folder 4
Conventions, Union: 1928. Joint statement by delegates of Locals and of Dressmakers Joint Boards of N.Y. and Chicago re refusal of convention to seat delegates; Louis Hyman statement; list of delegates.
Box 1 Folder 5
Conventions, Union: 1929. Includes convention call.
Box 1 Folder 6
Conventions, Union: 1937. Ballot for N.Y. vice presidents.
Box 1 Folder 7
General Executive Board: 1912, 1937. Reports by Morris Sigman (1912) and George Wishnak (1937).
Box 1 Folder 8
Governor's Advisory Council, Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry, NYC: 1924. Reports, statements of Union, management and commission.
Box 1 Folder 9
Governor's Advisory Council, Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry, NYC: 1926. Copies of correspondence between Joint Board and Governor's Office, memo to Industrial Council of the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers, Inc.
Box 1 Folder 10
Joint Boards, Boston, Joint Board Cloak and Skirt Makers Union: 1920-22. Correspondence between Ladies' Garment Manufacturers Assoc. and Joint Board; 1921 strike calls.
Box 1 Folder 11
Joint Boards, Boston, Joint Board Cloak and Skirt Makers Union: 1913-14, 1922-23. Minutes.
Box 1 Folder 12-13
Joint Boards, Boston, Joint Board Cloak and Skirt Makers Union: Oct. 7, 1913. Minutes of investigation committee.
Box 1 Folder 14
Joint Boards, Boston, Joint Board Cloak and Skirt Makers Union: 1920-23. Financial reports.
Box 1 Folder 15
Joint Boards, Boston, Joint Board Cloak and Skirt Makers Union: Mar-June 1907. Financial contributions to strike fund; by-laws of Boston Cloak Manufacturers Assoc.
Box 1 Folder 16
Joint Boards, Boston, Joint Board Cloak and Skirt Makers Union: 1934, 1939. Includes NLRB case re Boston Maid, Inc.
Box 1 Folder 17
Joint Boards, Cleveland Joint Board: April 1921, Decision of Bd of Referees in Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry.
Box 1 Folder 18
Joint Boards, Cleveland Joint Board: 1920. Memo concerning health and decency budget required for a wage earner's family in Cleveland; includes research material.
Box 1 Folder 19
Joint Boards, Cleveland Joint Board: 1930s. Includes releases and telegrams.
Box 1 Folder 20
Joint Boards, Chicago Joint Board: c. 1927. Memo to S. Hamburger (Union accountant) re_ costs of injunction against Union in 1924 strike.
Box 1 Folder 21
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: June 30, 1930. Injunction by Brooklyn Ladies' Garment Manufacturers Assoc. against Union and Associations.
Box 1 Folder 22
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: 1924-26. Correspondence with International Union Bank re loans and investments.
Box 1 Folder 23
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: 1912-17, 1926-27, 1942. Includes Records re loans, bank book of Joint Board
Box 1 Folder 24
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: 1919, 1920. Financial reports; includes statement of expenses for 1919 general strike.
Box 1 Folder 25
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: 1932-35. Form letters
Box 1 Folder 26
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: Dec. 13, 1926. Decision by Paul Abelson (impartial chairman).
Box 1 Folder 27
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: 1923, 1930. Minutes.
Box 2 Folder 1
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: 1906-33. Demands, list of manufacturers, conference-report (1933).
Box 2 Folder 2
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: 1924-27. Notices of meetings, includes some from left-wing.
Box 2 Folder 3
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: 1923-24. Reports on investigation in the waist shops controlled by the Union (1923) and on "Investigation of the Dress Industry" by Nathan Wolf (1924).
Box 2 Folder 4
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: May 1920-Mar. 1921. Reports of American Association District.
Box 2 Folder 5
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: Mar. 18, 1921. Report of Brooklyn Office.
Box 2 Folder 6
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: June 1920-July 1923. Reports of Independent Reefer Dept.
Box 2 Folder 7
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: Dec. 1919-May 1923. Reports of Protective Division.
Box 2 Folder 8
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: May 1920-May 1921. Reports of Skirt and Dress Dept.
Box 2 Folder 9
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: n.d. "The Crisis and the Cloakmakers," statement by executive board.
Box 2 Folder 10
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: 1924-29. Includes list of General Strike Committees and resolutions (Yiddish).
Box 2 Folder 11
Joint Boards, N.Y. Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers Union: 1935-36. Includes report on Garment Industries Board of Trade, Inc. and memo to National Coat and Suit Recovery Board containing list of Associations having collective agreements with the Union.
Box 2 Folder 12
J. Boards, Joint Board Cloak and Skirt Makers' Union, Philadelphia, Pa.: 1920. Includes financial report and memo concerning increase in cost of living in Philadelphia
Box 2 Folder 13
Lefkovits, Samuel: 1920, 1924.
Box 2 Folder 14
Local 1, NYC: 1923. Includes hearings of Special Committee, appointed by Exec. Board, re allegations by Pure and Simple Trade Union League against administration (Feb. 5 and 9, 1923).
Box 2 Folder 15
Local 1, NYC: 1923. Notification to members of hearings re membership in Trade Union Educational League (TUEL) and Committee of Fifty (formerly Pure and Simple Trade Union League); minutes of hearing (Nov. 10, 1923) and notes of meetings (Dec. 15 and 31, 1923).
Box 2 Folder 16
Local 1, NYC: 1923. Statement by Samuel Zeldin and Isidor Steinzor re GEB policy on TUEL membership? statement by Local executive board members (Yiddish).
Box 2 Folder 17a
Local 1; 1932. Form letters.
Box 2 Folder 17b
Local 1: 1932-33. Organizing committee minutes (Feb. 2, 1933) ; Declaration of the Trade Union Center Group and United Progressive League (Nov. 4, 1933); Open Letter re week-work to Local 9 from Local 1 (July 16, 1933).
Box 2 Folder 18
Local 2, NYC: 1917-28. Jurisdictional dispute between Locals 1 and 17; includes report and recommendations of Committee of Three (Benjamin Schlesinger, S. Koldovsky and Hyman Schoolman), appointed by GEB (The Ladies Garment Worker, Dec. 1917); Gomper's telegrams (1924); "Why Local 17 Be Reinstated" (sic) by Abraham Rosenberg (1928).
Box 2 Folder 19
Local 2: n.d. Petitions of reefer makers for the re-establishment of Local 17.
Box 2 Folder 20
Local 2: 1928. Special Investigation Committee; "Reefer Makers Memorandum In Support of Resolution #105, of the 19th Convention of the I.L.G.W.U. held in Boston, Mass. May, 1928."
Box 3 Folder 1
Local 2: Aug. 28, 1928. Special Investigation Committee minutes.
Box 3 Folder 2
Local 2: Sept. 4 and 20, 1928. Special Investigation Committee report of hearings.
Box 3 Folder 3-4
Local 2: 1930. B. Charney Vladeck statement re Local 2 elections (Jewish Daily Forward, May 18, 1930); B. Schlesinger letter re report of Special Committee investigation of Local 2 elections; copies of letters to Special Committee re alleged election irregularities.
Box 3 Folder 5
Local 9: 1931. Louis Hyman declaration (n.d.); Declaration of Principles of Trade Union Group of Local 9 (May 1931).
Box 3 Folder 6
Local 9, NYC: Nov. 1914-Dec. 1926. Ledger Book.
Box 3 Folder 7
Local 9, NYC: Nov. 1933. Trial material against administration of Local; includes exhibits consisting of statements, broadsides, leaflets.
Box 3 Folder 8
Local 22, NYC: 1922-25, 1936. Conference Committee meeting re reaffilliation of Locals 22 and 23 (Nov. 6, 1922); press releases (1936).
Box 3 Folder 9
Local 23, NYC: 1929. Report on investigation of Samuel Fremed (manager).
Box 3 Folder 10
Local 25: 1921-22. Financial records.
Box 3 Folder 11
Local 33, Boston: 1939. Report of meeting (June 19, 1939).
Box 3 Folder 12
Local 35, NYC: undated documents. Lists, including members of Trade Union Educational League.
Box 3 Folder 13
Local 38, NYC: 1930. Strike: includes correspondence re strike, lists, statements, press releases and newspaper clippings.
Box 3 Folder 14
Local 48, NYC: 1923. Resolution.
Box 3 Folder 15
Local 56, Boston: May 1922-Feb. 1923. Financial reports.
Box 3 Folder 16
Local 60, NYC: 1919. Declaration of principles for Local health and welfare plan.
Box 3 Folder 17
Local 64, NYC: July 1921-Mar. 1922. Audit.
Box 3 Folder 18
Local 102, NYC: 1938. "I Accuse" by Saul Metz.
Box 3 Folder 19
Local 117, NYC: 1938. Charges against J. Katz, H. Aidenland, Hyman Libow, S. Rothman, Louis Farber, William Sporn, A. Mallin, L. Klotz and L. Nickelsberg for illegal group activity includes publication of Union Vanguard.
Box 3 Folder 20
Local Unions, Internal Conflict With Union: 1925. Audit, Joint Committee of Action (June 24-Nov. 3, 1925).
Box 4 Folder 1
Local Unions, Internal Conflict With Union: 1925. Declaration of Executive Boards of Locals 2, 9, 22 (Sept. 23, 1925).
Box 4 Folder 2
Local Unions, Internal Conflict With Union: 1925. Minutes, Joint Committee of Action; protest against suspension of locals? statements and resolutions includes Union pamphlet, The Communist Plague In Our Unions.
Box 4 Folder 3
Local Unions, Internal Conflict With Union: 1925. Trial; charges brought by Israel Feinberg against members of Locals 2, 9, 22 with lists of accused; statement of Special Committee appointed by Joint Board.
Box 4 Folder 4
Local Unions, Internal Conflict With Union : 1925. Trial; transcript of proceedings of trial (June 25-July 9, 1925).
Box 4 Folder 5-10
Local Unions, Internal Conflict With Union : 1925. Trial; transcript of proceedings of trial (June 25-July 9, 1925).
Box 5 Folder 1-8
Local Unions, Internal Conflict With Union: 1927. Suit re loan by Julius Portnoy, Joseph Boruchowitz, Abe Zirlin (plaintiffs) against International Union Bank and Frederick F. Umhey (defendants) (February 15, 1927).
Box 6 Folder 1
Local Unions, Internal Conflict With Union: 1927. Includes GEB resolution suspending Locals 2, 9, 22; resolution of mass meeting, condemning Pres. Sigman.
Box 6 Folder 2
Manuscripts, I. Alexandrowicz and B. Mitchell: 1946. Descriptions of documentary material on right-left struggles in ILGWU; includes handwritten copies of statements and news releases of 1926 Cloakmakers Strike (94 pp); "Internal Conflict Within the ILGWU" (11 pp).
Box 6 Folder 3-4
Manuscripts, Walter Nelles: 1925. "Labor Injunctions," part II (pp. 79-237) and notes (pp. 21-85).
Box 6 Folder 7-8
Manuscripts, Walter Nelles: 1926. "Contempt" (pp. 46-121) and notes (pp. 1-24).
Box 6 Folder 9
Manuscripts, Selig Perlman: n.d. "Jewish Unionism, Its Birth Pangs and Contribution to the General American Labor Movement" (42 pp).
Box 6 Folder 10
Manuscripts, Alexander Trachtenberg: 1919-22. "The Cloak Strike Day By Day, A Chronological History of the Recent Conflict in the Cloak and Suit Industry."
Box 6 Folder 11
Manuscripts: n.d. "Communist Activities in the American Trade Union Movement," no author, no date; material on Communist movement, the TUEL, gleaned from various sources includes American Labor Year Book (1923-24) and newspapers.
Box 6 Folder 12
Manuscripts: c. 1928. "The Rise and Fall of Communism in the ILGWU," no author (12 pp).
Box 6 Folder 13
Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union: Dec. 28, 1928-Jan. 1, 1929. National convention reports.
Box 6 Folder 14
N.T.W.I.U.: 1930. National convention reports.
Box 6 Folder 15
N.T.W.I.U.: n.d. Misc. printed matter.
Box 6 Folder 16
New York Cloakmakers' Strike: 1924. Reports of meetings of General Strike Committee.
Box 7 Folder 1
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1926. Correspondence and complaints by manufacturers and disposition of pending complaints by Organization Committee.
Box 7 Folder 2
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1926. Letters from August Claessens, Charles Solomon, A.J.Muste, and Norman Thomas re speaking engagements.
Box 7 Folder 3
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1926. Exec. board lists.
Box 7 Folder 4
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1926. Lists of shops, Union and non-Union; also list of shops controlled by deposed Joint Board.
Box 7 Folder 5
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1926. Minutes of General Strike Committee and . Provisional Strike Committee.
Box 7 Folder 6
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1926. Minutes of Joint Board meetings.
Box 7 Folder 7
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1926. Press releases by Joint Board
Box 7 Folder 8
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1926. General Strike Committee reports and statements.
Box 7 Folder 9
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1926. "Outline of developments during the strike" (weekly newsletter).
Box 7 Folder 10
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1926. Statements by Morris Sigman.
Box 7 Folder 11
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1926. Statements appearing in Freiheit and other papers.
Box 7 Folder 12
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1926. Includes history of Strike; GEB order on N.Y. Cloakmakers' Union; "Pacts About the Cloak Strike;" and appeal by W. Green for contributions to strike (Oct. 18, 1926).
Box 7 Folder 13
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1926. Includes GEB statement to membership and statement of facts submitted to GEB.
Box 7 Folder 14
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1929. Includes copy of letter from Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers, Inc. to Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Box 7 Folder 15
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1929. Summary of provisions in new agreement; agreement between Youthmaid Cloak Co. and Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union; announcements re agreement from Industrial Council.
Box 8 Folder 1
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1929. Financial records.
Box 8 Folder 2
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1929. Lists of members of Industrial Council and Union cloak shops in all districts.
Box 8 Folder 3
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike; 1929. Lists of shops.
Box 8 Folder 4
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1929. Lists of strike halls and committees.
Box 8 Folder 5
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1929. Picket Committee report.
Box 8 Folder 6
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1929. Letters to The Day and other papers.
Box 8 Folder 7
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1929. Shop chairman resolutions.
Box 8 Folder 8
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1929. Strike call and GEB announcement of decision re strike and results of strike referendum.
Box 8 Folder 9
N.Y. Cloakmakers' Strike: 1932. Plans of Speakers and Entertainment Committees; lists of speakers and hall assignments.
Box 8 Folder 10
New York Dressmakers' Strike: 1930. Printed material issued by Speakers and Entertainment Committees; includes Speaker's Guide.
Box 8 Folder 11
N.Y. Dressmakers' Strike: 1932. "Memorandum of Understanding Reached in Conference Between the Affiliated Association and the Union."
Box 8 Folder 12
N.Y. Dressmakers' Strike: 1932. "Facts About the Dress Strike."
Box 8 Folder 13
N.Y. Dressmakers' Strike: 1932. "Itemized Report of Distribution Committee of the Joint Food Relief Committee of the Striking Dressmakers."
Box 8 Folder 14
N.Y. Dressmakers' Strike: 1932. Strike Committee appointments lists; printed material for speakers by Speakers Committee.
Box 8 Folder 15
N.Y. Dressmakers' Strike: 1933. Includes Speakers Committee report.
Box 8 Folder 16
New York Garment Industry: 1924-25. Lists of shops, jobbers, designers, Industrial Council members, employees; "Report of Investigation of Philadelphia Cloak Union."
Box 8 Folder 17
N.Y. Garment Industry: n.d. Union and non-union shops in the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, East New York and out-of-town.
Box 8 Folder 18
Nineteen-nine Strike, NYC: 1909-10. Letter re police and strikers from Miles M. Dawson (chief counsel), Ladies' Waist Makers' Union; questions re police conduct.
Box 9 Folder 1
Nineteen-ten Strike, NYC: 1910. The Great Revolt. Order continuing preliminary injunction in case of Max H. Schwarcz against ILGWU (Aug. 27, 1910).
Box 9 Folder 2
Correspondence, A-L: 1912-14. Includes correspondence with Louis Brandeis and Julius Henry Cohen.
Box 9 Folder 3
Correspondence, M-Z: 1915, 1917.
Box 9 Folder 4
Boston, Board of Grievances: 1913-14. Includes correspondence between Boston Ladies' Garment Manufacturers Association and Boston Dress and Waist Manufacturers Association; reports from Union office re complaints.
Box 9 Folder 5
Boston, Board of Grievances: 1913, 1914. Minutes (April 26, 1913, June 4, 1914).
Box 9 Folder 6
Boston, Conference: 1916. Minutes of conference between M. and C. Skirt Co. and ILGWU at City Club (Aug. 21).
Box 9 Folder 7
Chicago, Board of Arbitration: 1915, 1917. Report of Board of Arbitration (Sept. 24, 1915) and modification by Julian Mack (Aug. 21, 1917).
Box 9 Folder 8
New York City, Children's Dresses: 1916. Agreements between Children's Dress Manufacturers Assoc. and Locals 10, 50 and 58 (Mar. 4th).
Box 9 Folder 9
NYC, Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry: 1910. Draft of demands.
Box 9 Folder 10
NYC, Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry: 1915. Decisions of Board of Arbitration (Jan. 21, Feb. 5 and 6).
Box 9 Folder 11
NYC, Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry: 1913. "Memorandum of Points to be Presented to the Board of Arbitration re Wage Increase" (15 pp).
Box 9 Folder 12
NYC, Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry: 1913. Minutes of Board of Arbitration meeting of Assoc. and Union (Feb. 3-4, pp. 5-125).
Box 9 Folder 13
NYC, Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry: 1913. Statements by Louis Brandeis before Board of Arbitration.
Box 9 Folder 14
NYC, Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry: 1915. "Before the Council of Conciliation in the Cloak and Suit Industry. Statement in behalf of the ILGWU and Joint Board of Cloak and Skirt-makers Unions" (39 pp.), submitted by Morris Hillquit (July 13); decision re preferential hiring and price settlements by Council.
Box 9 Folder 15
NYC, Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry: July 21, 1915. Council of Conciliation transcript (pp. 479-634).
Box 9 Folder 16
NYC, Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry: March 4, 1915. Board of Grievances minutes re A. Gershel and Co. and other matters.
Box 9 Folder 17
NYC, Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry: Dec. 19, 1913. Minutes of conferences between Union and manufacturers re apprentices in cutting trade (47 pp).
Box 9 Folder 18
NYC, Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry: 1916. "A Statement from the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers Protective Association" (16 pp) re "existing condition," in the industry; Morris Hillquit's remarks on impending lockout (April 26).
Box 9 Folder 19
NYC, Dress and Waist Industry: 1917-19. Includes "Proposal by the Dress and Waistmakers Association for suggested changes in the Agreement between Association, the ILGWU and its Locals" (1919); "Protocol of Peace Between the Dress and Waist Manufacturers assoc. and the ILGWU" (Jan. 1917 -Jan. 1919).
Box 9 Folder 20
NYC, Dress and Waist Industry: 1913. Complaints to Board of Arbitration by Dress and Waist Manufacturers Assoc. and Union.
Box 10 Folder 1
NYC, Dress and Waist Industry: Oct. 1913. Board of Arbitration complaint, ILGWU vs. Dress and Waist Manufacturers assoc. (draft).
Box 10 Folder 2
NYC, Dress and Waist Industry: 1913. Board of Arbitration complaint, Dress and Waist Manufacturers Assoc. vs. ILGWU.
Box 10 Folder 3
NYC, Dress and Waist Industry: 1916. Extracts of Board of Arbitration decisions (Mar. 19 and Apr. 12).
Box 10 Folder 4
NYC, Dress and Waist Industry: 1913. Rulings and Recommendations of the Board of Arbitration in the matter of legal holidays.
Box 10 Folder 5
NYC, Dress and Waist Industry: 1913-16. Union and Assoc. complaints to Board of Arbitration (Jan. 1913-Apr. 1915); hearing of Union complaint against Henry George and Rosenbaum before Robert G. Valentine (impartial chairman) (incomplete); minutes of meetings.
Box 11 Folder
NYC, Dress and Waist Industry: 1914. Minutes of conferences of Board of Grievances.
Box 12 Folder 1
NYC, Dress and Waist Industry: 1913. Test rates under the Protocol; letter from "Dress and Waist Manufacturers Assoc. to Board of Grievances" (Aug. 5, 1913, 11 pp); "Charges made by Dress and Waist Manufacturers Assoc. in relation to stoppages of work on May 1, 1913" (Oct. 6, 19 pp).
Box 12 Folder 2
NYC, Dress and Waist Industry: 1912-13. Minutes of meetings between Dress and Waist Manufacturers Assoc. and the ILGWU.
Box 12 Folder 3
NYC, Dress and Waist Industry: 1913. Letter and memo from N.I. Stone, (wage Scale Board), of violations of Protocol since its inception.
Box 12 Folder 4
NYC, Dress and Waistmakers: 1914. Minutes of meeting of Wage Scale Board (July 8) with report and recommendation of N.I. Stone.
Box 12 Folder 5
NYC, Joint Board of Sanitary Control: 1911-23. Includes reports, correspondence, "A Year of the Protocol" (The American Cloak and Suit Review, Sept. 1911).
Box 12 Folder 6
Philadelphia: Jan. 19, 1916. Minutes of meeting and decision of Board of Arbitration.
Box 12 Folder 7
Miscellaneous, Protocol of Peace: 1915. Includes list of employees in Union office; members of Executive Board Committee, Joint Grievance Board Committee, and Wage Scale Board Committee
Box 12 Folder 8
Miscellaneous, Protocol of Peace: n.d. Handwritten notes on the history of the Protocol.
Box 12 Folder 9
Research Department, ILGWU: 1921. Correspondence with other unions re cost of living and earnings.
Box 12 Folder 10
Research Dept., ILGWU: 1913, 1921. Includes studies on wages and hours among garment workers (1915-21).
Box 12 Folder 11
Research Dept., ILGWU: 1915-20. Memoranda on earnings of workers in various segments of the Cloak Industry? wages for week-workers in the Cloak and Suit Industry.
Box 12 Folder 12
Research Dept., ILGWU: 1921. "Memorandum concerning wage rates of workers in the cloak and suit shops controlled by the N.Y. Joint Board, of Cloakmakers;" includes reports by various departments of the Joint Board
Box 12 Folder 13
Research Dept., ILGWU: 1920. Report on Cost-of-Living Investigation (35 pp): "Memorandum Concerning Increase in the Cost-of-Living Jan-July 1920;" memorandum on cost-of-living increases in various areas of NYC.
Box 12 Folder 14
Research Dept., ILGWU: 1919-22. Statistical data and wage studies.
Box 13 Folder 1
Research Dept., ILGWU: 1919-22. Statistical data and wage studies.
Box 13 Folder 2
Scrapbook: 1920s. Leaflets and brochures relating to left-right struggle in garment industry.
Box 13 Folder 3
Shop Chairmen, N.Y. Cloak and Dress Industry: 1926-27. Meetings.
Box 13 Folder 4
Trade Union Immigration Bureau: 1921.
Box 13 Folder 5
Unemployment Insurance Fund, NYC Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry: 1920-27. Includes Regulation for Unemployment Insurance Fund set up in NYC (Feb. 25, 1925); memo to GEB concerning unemployment insurance problems (Nov. 15, 1920).
Box 13 Folder 6
Unemployment Insurance Fund: c. 1924. "A Brief Survey" prepared for ILGWU by Alfred L. Bernheim, Labor Bureau, Inc.
Box 13 Folder 7
Unions: 1920-33. Reports and press releases.
Box 13 Folder 8
Unity House: 1923, 1935. Includes reports (1923); "The Unity News" (Aug. and Sept. 1935): leaflets and brochures.
Box 13 Folder 9
Miscellaneous Documents; 1910-48. Includes chart of provisions in agreements (1910-22); no-strike, no-lockout clauses (1910-48); handwritten demand for resignation of John Dyche and Abraham Rosenberg by Joint Board; list of individuals at Supreme Court (Mar. 21, 1916); minutes of Social Welfare Section, Women's City Club (n.d).
Box 13 Folder 10