ILGWU Southeast Region Audio Recordings, 1975-1979
Collection Number: 5780/058 AV
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
ILGWU Southeast Region Audio Recordings, 1975-1979
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5780/058 AV
Abstract:
This collection contains audio recordings of the Southeast Region's conferences in
1978 and 1979, as well as audio recordings of speeches and Union Label songs.
Creator:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was once one of the largest labor
unions in the United States founded in 1900 by local union delegates representing
about 2,000 members in cities in the northeastern United States. It was one of the
first U.S. Unions to have a membership consisting of mostly females, and it played
a key role in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s. The union is generally referred
to as the "ILGWU" or the "ILG". The ILGWU grew in geographical scope, membership size,
and political influence to become one of the most powerful forces in American organized
labor by mid-century. Representing workers in the women's garment industry, the ILGWU
worked to improve working and living conditions of its members through collective
bargaining agreements, training programs, health care facilities, cooperative housing,
educational opportunities, and other efforts. The ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated
Clothing and Textile Workers Union in 1995 to form the Union of Needle trades, Industrial
and Textile Employees (UNITE). UNITE merged with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant
Employees Union (HERE) in 2004 to create a new union known as UNITE HERE. The two
unions that formed UNITE in 1995 represented only 250,000 workers between them, down
from the ILGWU's peak membership of 450,000 in 1969.
Established in 1937, the Southeast Region of the ILGWU covered eight states: Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
John S. Martin served as director from the regional department's founding until his
retirement in 1954. Elmer Kehrer succeeded him, holding the position until resignation
in 1964. Martin Morand was director from 1964 to 1969, and after Morand's resignation,
Nicholas Bonanno was appointed Director of the Southeast Region. Bonnano was still
director of the region, at the time of the ILGWU's merger with ACTWU in 1995.
The collection consists of reel to reel audio recordings, mainly of the Southeast
Region Conference for various years, but there is also material on the union label
song, as well as director's speeches.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
ILGWU Southeast Region Audio Recordings #5780/058 AV. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 5780: ILGWU records 5780/058: ILGWU Southeast Region Records
Names:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. -- Southeast Region.
Subjects:
Women's clothing industry -- United States.
Labor unions -- Clothing workers -- United States.
Clothing workers -- United States
Industrial relations -- United States
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | 1 |
Union Strike
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1975 |
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Scope and Contents
August 7, 1975 meeting, 215-229; marking on front: 9/6/74: reel #1, side #1 first
session; 9/7/74: reel #2, side #2 morning session
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| Box 1 | 2 |
First Morning, Director, State Directors
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1975 |
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Scope and Contents
August 7, 1975
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| Box 1 | 3 |
Nashville
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1975 |
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Scope and Contents
1 7/8 speed
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| Box 1 | 4 |
ILGWU Union Label Songs.
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1976 |
| Box 1 | 5 |
Birmingham. Director's Speech on Israel Visit.
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1976 |
| Box 1 | 6 |
Southeast Region Conference.
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1978 |
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Scope and Contents
August 4, 1978; Dan Miller, President, Florida American Federation of Labor; Evelyn
Dubrow, V.P.; Lou Rolnick; Bob Cheponis; Q &A Lucie Roberts (516), Shirley Cook (384);
James Gutmann; Q & A Betty (523, New Bern, N.C. Health (?), Adel Lacy; Fred Siems
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| Box 1 | 7 |
Southeast Region Conference. Atlanta.
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1978 |
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Scope and Contents
August, 4, 1978; Singing; Berger; Busky (?); Berger; Bonanno; Dan Savage (Alabama);
Art Martin (North Carolina); Lennie Finkel (Florida); Mike Ruano (?) (Florida); Mary
Cameron (Tennessee); Joe Ferguson (South Carolina)
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| Box 1 | 8 |
Southeast Region Conference.
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1978 |
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Scope and Contents
August, 5, 1978; 2nd Day, Atlanta Regency. Opening Singing, Approx. 44; Bonanno (Introduction),
65; Chaikin, 370; Bonanno; Berger, 630, end Georgia report, Benefit Fund; Bruce Barcan
(?); Dorothy Armstrong, 576K; Eunice Snyder, 467; Mildred Bennett, 480; Edna Smith,
308, Adel Lay, 555; Shuan Ratcliff, 305C; 3, Rosalie Tucker, 581; 9, Shirley Jones,
363; 11 Betty Davis, 576Q; Jane Rutledge (?), 408, 566; Emma King, 417; Aileen Brown,
515
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| Box 1 | 9 |
Southeast Region Conference. Atlanta 2nd Day.
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1978 |
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Scope and Contents
Afternoon session. Nick Bonanno; Cecil Brandstetter, Attorney; Erving Gordon; Nick
Zeigler
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| Box 1 | 10 |
Southeast Region Conference. Atlanta. Afternoon Session.
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1978 |
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Scope and Contents
Banquet
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| Box 1 | 11 |
Southeast Region Conference. [tape 1]
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1979 |
| Box 1 | 12 |
Southeast Region Conference. [tape 2]
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1979 |
| Box 1 | 13 |
Southeast Region Conference. [tape 3]
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1979 |
| Box 2 |
Audio digitized from the collection.
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