ILGWU Sol Chaikin Photographs, 1940-1989
Collection Number: 5780/083 P
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
ILGWU Sol Chaikin Photographs, 1940-1989
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5780/083 P
Abstract:
This collection contains photographs of Sol Chaikin at a variety of events, including
conventions, meetings, and rallies. Also included are photographs of ILGWU groups
and institutions, political figures, and other events.
Creator:
Chaikin, Sol C.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Quanitities:
1.61 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.
Sol Chaikin was born in New York City January 9th, 1918. He graduated from Townsend
Harris Hall High School in 1934. In 1940 he married Rosalind Bryon. Chaikin received
a LL.B Degree from Brooklyn Law School. He then became an Organizer for the ILGWU,
Local 178 in Fall River Massachusetts.
Chaikin held many union jobs through his lifetime.
1942-Business Agent, Local 281, Boston and Lowell, Massachusetts; 1943-U.S. Air Force;
1946-Manager, Local 22, ILGWU, Springfield, Massachusetts and Manager, Western Mass.
District, Northeast Dept., ILGWU; 1955-Director, Lower Southwest Region, ILGWU; 1959-Assistant
Director, Northeast Dept., ILGWU; 1965-Vice President, ILGWU; 1968-Chairman, American
Trade Union Council for Histadrut; 1969-Associate Trustee, Long Island Jewish Hillside
Medical Center; 1973-General Secretary-Treasurer, ILGWU; Vice-President, AFL-CIO Industrial
Union Dept. Member, Board of Directors, New York Urban Coalition; 1975-President,
ILGWU; Vice-President, AFL-CIO and Member, Executive Council Member, Governor's Task
Force on Housing; 1976-Delegate to Democratic National Convention; Trade Union Council
for Histadrut; 1977-Labor Representative, Belgrade Conference to Review Helsinki Accord
on Human Rights; Head of AFL-CIO Delegation to International Labor Summit, London;
Received Labor Human Rights Award, Jewish Labor Committee; 1978-Received Townsend
Harris Award; Member, U.S. Delegation to Attend Funeral of Prime Minister Golda Meir;
1979-Present At Signing of Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty at the White House; 1980-Member,
U.S. Delegation to ILO Session in Geneva; Vice-Chair, N.Y. Convention Center Operating
Corp.; Member, Board of Trustees, Brandeis University; Honorary Degrees from Rutgers
University and City University of New York; Seconded the Nomination of President Carter,
Democratic National Convention; Published, A Labor Viewpoint: Another Opinion; 1982-Head,
AFL-CIO Fact- Finding Mission to South Africa; Member, N.Y.S. Governor's Special Transit
Advisory Panel; 1983-Hosted ZENSEN Delegation from Japan for Discussions of Apparel
and Textile Industries; 1986-Retired as President of the ILGWU.
Sol Chaikin died April 1, 1991 at the age of 73.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
ILGWU Sol Chaikin Photographs #5780/083 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Chaikin, Sol C.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Southeast Region
Subjects:
Women's clothing industry--United States
Clothing workers--Labor unions--United States.
Clothing trade--United States.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 |
AFL-CIO
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Box 1 |
Abel, I.W.
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Box 1 |
Argentina (Human Rights)
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Box 1 |
Awards/Honors
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Box 1 |
Beame, Abe
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Box 1 |
Brown, Jerry
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Box 1 |
Bush, George
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Box 1 |
Cambria County
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Box 1 |
Carter, Jimmy
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Box 1 |
Carter, Jimmy
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Box 1 |
Carter, Jimmy
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Box 1 |
Carter, Jimmy--Inauguration
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Box 1 |
Carter, Jimmy--nomination by Chaikin
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Box 1 |
Carter, Jimmy--meetings
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1977 | |
Box 1 |
Carter, Jimmy--meetings
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1977 | |
Box 1 |
Chaikin and family--early years
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Box 1 |
Chaikin and family--early years
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Box 1 |
Chaikin and family--early years
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Box 1 |
Chaikin and family--early years
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Box 1 |
Chaikin
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1940-1949 | |
Box 1 |
Chaikin
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1950-1959 | |
Box 1 |
Chaikin
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1960-1969 | |
Box 1 |
Chaikin
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1970-1979 | |
Box 1 |
Chaikin
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1970-1979 | |
Box 2 |
Chaikin
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1980-1989 | |
Box 2 |
Chaikin
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Box 2 |
Chaikin--retirement
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1986 | |
Box 2 |
Chile
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1978 | |
Box 2 |
Civil Rights
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Box 2 |
Conventions
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1968-1986 | |
Box 2 |
Conventions
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1968-1986 | |
Box 2 |
Conventions
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1968-1986 | |
Box 2 |
Conventions
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1968-1986 | |
Box 2 |
Cuomo, Mario
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Box 2 |
Deborah Dinner
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Box 2 |
Democratic Convention
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1976 | |
Box 2 |
Dubinsky, David
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Box 2 |
Dukakis, Michael
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Box 2 |
Fall River, Massachusetts
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1975 | |
Box 2 |
Finley, Murray
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Box 2 |
Foreign Heads of State
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Box 2 |
General Secretary-Treasurer
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Box 2 |
Hall, Paul
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Box 2 |
Histadrut
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Box 2 |
Humphrey, Hubert
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Box 2 |
International Labour Organization
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1976 | |
Box 2 |
Imports Legislation--Testimony
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Box 2 |
Interviews
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Box 2 |
Japan Summit
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1979 | |
Box 2 |
Kennedy, John F.
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Box 2 |
Kenned, Ted
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Box 2 |
King, Coretta S.
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Box 2 |
Koch, Ed
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Box 2 |
Labor Mass
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Box 2 |
Labor Summit
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1977 | |
Box 2 |
Lincoln Center
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Box 2 |
Locals
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Box 2 |
Locals
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Box 3 |
Locals
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Box 3 |
London
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Box 3 |
Meany, George
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Box 3 |
Milano, Ed
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Box 3 |
Mondale, Walter
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Box 3 |
Moynihan, Daniel
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Box 3 |
New York State AFL-CIO
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Box 3 |
Northeast (Lower Southwest)
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1956-1973 | |
Box 3 |
O'Neill, Tip
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Box 3 |
Peru
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Box 3 |
Political Rallies
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Box 3 |
President, Swearing in of
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1975 | |
Box 3 |
President--Portraits
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Box 3 |
Rabin (Ambassador of Israel)
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Box 3 |
Randolph, A. Philip
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Box 3 |
Rizzo, Frank
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Box 3 |
Rockefeller Center--Fashion Show
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Box 3 |
Rome
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1978 | |
Box 3 |
Schmidt, Helmut--Dinner
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Box 3 |
Shapp, Milton
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Box 3 |
Social Democrats
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Box 3 |
Stolberg Hospital Ceremony
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Box 3 |
Street Fair, New York City
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Box 3 |
Tennessee
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Box 3 |
Truman, Harry S.
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Box 3 |
Union Label
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Box 3 |
Unity House
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Box 3 |
White House
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1970-1979 | |
Box 3 |
White House
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1970-1979 | |
Box 3 |
White House
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1970-1979 | |
Box 3 |
Miscellaneous
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Box 55 |
12 oversize photos sorted out of the 'misc. photos' box stored over the mapcase
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