Guide to the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Union Health Center records,
1911-1977 [bulk 1920-1960]

Collection Number: 5780/060

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

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Compiled by:
Robert Lazar
Date completed:
March 1985
EAD encoding:
Casey S. Westerman, November 1, 2002

© 2002 Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Union Health Center records, 1911-1977 [bulk 1920-1960].
Collection Number:
5780/060
Creator:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Union Health Center.
Quantity:
6.5 linear feet.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, annual reports, articles, financial statements.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence, annual reports, articles, financial statements, and other materials documenting the evolving role of the ILGWU Union Health Center.

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The ILGWU Union Health Center was founded in 1911 in New York and was the first organization of its kind in the United States. The Center provided medical services, including prescription drugs, dental care, and eye examinations, to ILGWU members at low cost. It also offered health education courses and organized activities to ensure the good health of union members.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, annual reports, articles, financial statements, and other materials documenting the evolving role of the ILGWU Union Health Center. Much of the material is routine or administrative in nature. Other items in the collection include articles by such figures as George M. Price and Pauline Newman, the Center's director, on the issue of union health centers generally and the ILGWU Center in particular.
SUBJECTS

Names:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Newman, Pauline.
Price, George Moses, 1864-1942.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Union Health Center.

Subjects:
Clothing workers--Labor unions--New York (State)--New York.
Clothing workers--Health and hygiene--New York (State)--New York.
Clothing workers--Medical care--New York (State)--New York.
Health promotion--New York (State)--New York.
Labor union members--Health and hygiene--New York (State)--New York.
Medical centers--New York (State)--New York.
Medical centers--Administration.

Form and Genre Terms:
Administrative records
Annual reports
Articles
Correspondence
Financial records

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Cite As:
International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Union Health Center records, 1911-1977 [bulk 1920-1960]. #5780/060. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
RELATED MATERIAL

5780. International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
5780/171. Union Health Center. Publications, 1912-1986.
Description
Container
General Correspondence: 1927, 1931-32.
Box 1 Folder 1
General Correspondence: 1933-34.
Box 1 Folder 2
General Correspondence: 1935.
Box 1 Folder 3
General Correspondence: 1936.
Box 1 Folder 4
General Correspondence: 1937.
Box 1 Folder 5a, 5b
General Correspondence: 1938-39.
Box 1 Folder 6
General Correspondence: 1940-42,
Box 1 Folder 7
General Correspondence: 1943-46.
Box 1 Folder 8
General Correspondence: 1947.
Box 1 Folder 9
General Correspondence: 1948.
Box 1 Folder 10
General Correspondence: 1949-50.
Box 1 Folder 11
General Correspondence: 1951-52.
Box 1 Folder 12
General Correspondence: 1953-54.
Box 1 Folder 13
General Correspondence: 1955-57.
Box 1 Folder 14
General Correspondence: 1958-60.
Box 1 Folder 15
General Correspondence: 1961-66. 1972, 1974.
Box 1 Folder 16
Adopted Children, World War II: 1948-1952.
Box 2 Folder 1
Articles by Pauline Newman, 1930's (many are undated.)
Box 2 Folder 2
Broadcasts. 1938.
Box 2 Folder 3
Finances: Budgets, fees, salaries for medical staff. 1945-56.
Box 2 Folder 4-6
Form letters, 1928-35.
Box 2 Folder 7
Health Plans of Locals, 1930 's-1950's.
Box 2 Folder 8-9
History of the Union Health Center.
Box 2 Folder 10
Minutes of Medical Board meetings, reports and memos. 1931-36.
Box 3 Folder 1
Minutes, 1937-39.
Box 3 Folder 2
Minutes, 1940-43.
Box 3 Folder 3
Minutes, 1944-46.
Box 3 Folder 4
Minutes, 1947-50.
Box 3 Folder 5
Minutes, 1951-60.
Box 3 Folder 6
Minutes, 1961-66, 1976-77.
Box 3 Folder 7
Newsletters, 1926-51.
Box 3 Folder 8
Notes, personal memos.
Box 3 Folder 9
Office Employees International Union, Local 153, 1943-46.
Box 4 Folder 1
Office Employees' International Union, Local 153, 1947-1948.
Box 4 Folder 2
Office Employees' International Union, Local 153, 1949-51.
Box 4 Folder 3
Office Employees' International Union, Local 153, 1952-56.
Box 4 Folder 4
Price, George, 1942.
Box 4 Folder 5
Programs. 1930's-1940's.
Box 4 Folder 6
Starr, Mark. 1936-51.
Box 4 Folder 7
A Study of the Health Protection Afforded Members of the ILGWU, by Francis T. Dover. March 1939.
Box 4 Folder 8
Newpaper Clippings.
Box 4 Folder 9-11
Annual Report, Oct. 1911.
Box 5 Folder 1
Annual Report, Dec. 1912.
Box 5 Folder 2
Annual Report, December 1913.
Box 5 Folder 3
Annual Report, October 1914.
Box 5 Folder 4
Annual Report, October 1915.
Box 5 Folder 5
Annual Report, October 1916.
Box 5 Folder 6
Annual Report, Seventh Year Work and Progress, October 1917.
Box 5 Folder 7
Annual Report, 1917.
Box 5 Folder 8
Annual Report, 1921.
Box 5 Folder 9
Annual Report, 1922.
Box 5 Folder 10
Annual Report, 1923.
Box 5 Folder 11
Annual Report, 1924.
Box 5 Folder 12
Report, Fifteenth Anniversary, 1910-1925.
Box 5 Folder 13
Annual Report, 1926.
Box 5 Folder 14
Annual Report, 1930. (from Medical and Dental Departments.)
Box 5 Folder 15
Report, 21st Anniversary of the Union Health Center, 1934.
Box 6 Folder 1
Report of the Director for 1934.
Box 6 Folder 2
Report of the Director for 1935.
Box 6 Folder 3
Report of the Director for 1936.
Box 6 Folder 4
Report to the 23rd Convention, May 1937.
Box 6 Folder 5
Report to the 24th Convention, 1913-1940.
Box 6 Folder 6
Annual Report, 1940.
Box 6 Folder 7
Annual Report, 1941.
Box 6 Folder 8
Annual Report, 1942.
Box 6 Folder 9
Annual Report, 1943.
Box 6 Folder 10
Triennial Report, 1944-1946.
Box 6 Folder 11
Triennial Report, 1947-1949.
Box 6 Folder 12
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B. 1948,49.
Box 7 Folder 1
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B., 1950, 1951.
Box 7 Folder 2
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B., 1954.
Box 7 Folder 3
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B., 1955.
Box 7 Folder 4
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B., 1956.
Box 7 Folder 5
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B., 1957.
Box 7 Folder 6
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B., 1958.
Box 7 Folder 7
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B., 1959.
Box 7 Folder 8
Report of the UHC Committee of the the G.E.B., 1960.
Box 7 Folder 9
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B., 1961, 1962.
Box 7 Folder 10
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B., 1963.
Box 7 Folder 11
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B., 1964.
Box 7 Folder 12
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B., 1965.
Box 7 Folder 13
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B., 1966.
Box 7 Folder 14
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B., 1967.
Box 7 Folder 15
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B., 1968.
Box 8 Folder 1
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B., 1969, 1970.
Box 8 Folder 2
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B., 1975.
Box 8 Folder 3
Report, UHC financial statement, 1960.
Box 8 Folder 4
Report, UHC financial statement, 1961.
Box 8 Folder 5
Report, UHC financial statement, 1962.
Box 8 Folder 6
Report, UHC financial statement, 1963.
Box 8 Folder 7
Report, UHC financial statement, 1964.
Box 8 Folder 8
Report, UHC financial statement, 1965.
Box 9 Folder 1
Report, UHC financial statement, 1966.
Box 9 Folder 2
Report, UHC financial statement, 1967.
Box 9 Folder 3
Report, UHC financial statement, 1968.
Box 9 Folder 4
Report, UHC financial statement, 1969.
Box 9 Folder 5
Report, monthly departmental activities of the UHC, 1951-60.
Box 10 Folder 1
Are Labor's Health Centers A Threat to Doctors? Reprint, Medical Economics, Inc., October 1954.
Box 10 Folder 2
Union Benefits, Medical and Other Benefits in Labor Organizations. By George M. Price, presented to the ILGWU Convention May 1918.
Box 10 Folder 3
Bulletins: Joint Board of Sanitary Control in the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry, no.'s 1-4, 1911.
Box 10 Folder 4
Bulletins: Joint Board of Sanitary Control, no.'s 5 and 6, 1912.
Box 10 Folder 5
Bulletins: Joint Board of Sanitary Control, no.'s 7-10, 1913.
Box 10 Folder 6
Bulletin of the Joint Board of Sanitary Control. May 1914.
Box 10 Folder 7
Manufacturers' Bulletin of the Joint Board of Sanitary Control. September 1914.
Box 10 Folder 8
Workers' Bulletin of the Joint Board of Sanitary Control, vol. 1 no. 3, September 1914.
Box 10 Folder 9
Bulletins: Workers' Health Bulletin, (English, Yiddish, Italian) 1915.
Box 10 Folder 10
Bulletins: Joint Board of Sanitary Control, 1915.
Box 10 Folder 11
Bulletins: Joint Board of Sanitary Control. vol. 1, no. 1, August 1919. vol. 1, no. 2, September 1919. vol. 1, no. 3, October 1919. vol. 2, no. 4, January 1920.
Box 10 Folder 12
Ceremonies and Inspection of Facilities Marking the Completion of the Expansion Program. February 19, 1949.
Box 10 Folder 13
Cleveland Health Center. Official opening Nov. 17, 1951.
Box 10 Folder 14
The Union Dental Clinic, 1918.
Box 10 Folder 15
Dental Department, 10th Anniversary, May 1917-27.
Box 10 Folder 16
Dental Department report for 1931, and pamphlet (n.d.).
Box 10 Folder 17
Department for Social Welfare, New York City. Report on Union Health Center, 1935-40.
Box 10 Folder 18
Education and Social Service Department, 1935-64. Reports.
Box 10 Folder 19
Fee Schedule, Union Health Center, 1969.
Box 10 Folder 20
Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Union Health Center, 1964. Programs, plans, lists.
Box 11 Folder 1
Fire Hazards in Factory Buildings, December 1915.
Box 11 Folder 2
Fire Hazards in Factory Buildings, 1923.
Box 11 Folder 3
Fire Protection. Manufacturers' Bulletin issued by the Joint Board of Sanitary Control, March 1915.
Box 11 Folder 4
Four Hundred Prescriptions per Day Filled by A Labor Union", by Peter Kamitchis. Reprint from American Druggist, November 1949.
Box 11 Folder 5
Graphic Report of the Health Programs of ILGWU Locals, 1940.
Box 11 Folder 6
Health Center News. 1926, 1932.
Box 11 Folder 7
Health News, published by the New York State Department of Health, July 1931.
Box 11 Folder 8
Health Services, dedicated to the delegates, Golden Jubilee Convention, 1950.
Box 11 Folder 9
History in the Making, by Max Meyer, address before the Eighth Annual Congress on Industrial Health of the AMA, 1948.
Box 11 Folder 10
"If I am not for Myself, Who will be for Me?" By George M. Price, May 1914.
Box 11 Folder 11
Justice, reprints (re Union Health Center,) 19430-46.
Box 11 Folder 13
Labor laws re women workers, 1920-1930's. Articles, unpublished, manuscripts.
Box 11 Folder 14
Laundry Minimum Wage Board. 1937-38.
Box 11 Folder 15
Local Health Plans, 1951.
Box 11 Folder 16
Manual for the Medical Staff. c. 1960.
Box 11 Folder 17
Medal for a Union, Fifty Years of the Union Health Center. 1914-1964.
Box 11 Folder 18
Menu Fourth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Joint Board: the Foundation of the Joint Board of Sanitary Control. Oct. 1914.
Box 11 Folder 19
Minutes (reports of), luncheon meetings, 1969-70.
Box 11 Folder 20
Miscellaneous documents.
Box 11 Folder 21
Miscellaneous documents.
Box 11 Folder 22
Newsletter, Bulletin for the Medical Staff, 1950,1951.
Box 11 Folder 23
Price, George M., articles.
Box 12 Folder 1-4
Price, George M., biographical material and some correspondence with Leo Price.
Box 12 Folder 5
Price, Leo, articles.
Box 12 Folder 6
Questions and Answers, by Pauline Newman. Issued by the Education of the Union Health Center, 1940.
Box 12 Folder 7
Reports of the Union Health Center, 1944-45.
Box 12 Folder 8
Sanitary Conditions in the Shops of the Dress and Waist Industry. Report by the Joint Board of Sanitary; Control. May 1913.
Box 12 Folder 9
Sanitorium Association Report to the 14th Convention, 1918.
Box 12 Folder 10
Seating and Posture. An inquiry made by the Joint Board of Sanitary Control into the conditions in the women's garment trades. 1923.
Box 12 Folder 11
Security on the March. Health and welfare services of the ILGWU. 1954.
Box 12 Folder 12
Sick Benefits to Dressmakers' Union Local 22. Report on the medical administration of. 1935.
Box 12 Folder 13
Sick Benefits. Recommendations for claimants. (n.d.)
Box 12 Folder 14
Survey of the Union Health Center, by Henry B. Makeover, M.D. 1952.
Box 12 Folder 15
A Survey of the Union Health Centers. Published by the American Medical Association, 1958.
Box 12 Folder 16
Union Health Center of the ILGWU. . Reprint from Industrial Medicine and Surgery, Oct. 1953
Box 12 Folder 17
The Union Health Center of the ILGWU. By Pauline Newman. 6 pp.
Box 12 Folder 18
The Union Health Center of the ILGWU. Extract from Public Health Service publication no. 329, Management Health Medical Programs. 1954.
Box 12 Folder 19
The Union Health Center. Health Department of Organized Labor, report. 1930.
Box 12 Folder 20
The Union Health Center. Health Department of Organized Labor, report. 1913-31.
Box 13 Folder 1
The Union Health Center. Health Department of Organized Labor, report. 1913-34.
Box 13 Folder 2
The Union Health Center, Its Growth and Success. By Pauline Newman. Industrial Bulletin, September 1952.
Box 13 Folder 3
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Attended by Pauline Newman, 1967.
Box 13 Folder 4
You and the Union Health Center. (n.d.)
Box 13 Folder 5
Your Union Health Center. Information Bulletin, 1956.
Box 13 Folder 6
Nurses Guild. Audits, correspondence, minutes, rules, regulations. 1954-68.
Box 13 Folder 7