ILGWU. Wilbur Daniels papers,, 1967-1973.
Collection Number: 5780/113
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
ILGWU. Wilbur Daniels papers, 1967-1973.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5780/113
Abstract:
Contains files maintained by Wilbur Daniels while working as Associate General Counsel
in the Legal Department, Assistant to the President, Director of the Master Agreements
Department, Vice President, and Executive Vice-President. The bulk of the files pertain
to the negotiation of agreements with companies and associations in the 1960s and
1970s.
Creator:
Wilbur Daniels, 1923-
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was founded in New York City in 1900
by mostly Socialist immigrant workers who sought to unite the various crafts in the
growing women's garment industry. The union soon reflected changes in the sector and
rapidly organized thousands of unskilled and semi-skilled women, mostly Jewish and
Italian young immigrants. Exemplifying the "new unionism," the ILGWU led two of the
most widespread and best-known industrial strikes of the early Twentieth Century:
the shirtwaist makers' strike of 1909 in New York City and the cloak makers' strike
of 1910 in Chicago. The union also tried to adapt to the fragmented and unstable nature
of the industry. It adopted the "protocol of peace," a system of industrial relations
that attempted to ensure stability and limit strikes and production disruption by
providing for an arbitration system to resolve disputes.
The ILGWU exemplified the European-style social unionism of its founding members.
They pursued bread and butter issues but provided educational opportunities, benefits,
and social programs to union members as well. In 1919, the ILGWU became the first
American union to negotiate an unemployment compensation fund that was contributed
to by its employers. The ILGWU also pioneered in the establishment of an extremely
progressive health care program for its members which included not only regional Union
Health Centers but also a resort for union workers, known as Unity House. The Union
also had an imaginative and pioneering Education Department which not only trained
workers in traditional union techniques, but provided courses in citizenship and the
English language.
David Dubinsky, an immigrant from Belarus who came to the US in 1911, provided strong
leadership that led to unprecedented growth in the union during his presidency from
1932 to 1966. He led the union through successful internal anti-communist struggles,
built on the ascendancy of industrial unionism by encouraging the formation of the
Committee for Industrial Organization, and helped the union become an important political
force in New York City and state politics, and in the national Democratic Party and
Liberal Party as well.
In the period following the Second World War, the union suffered a decline in membership
as manufacturers avoided unionization and took advantage of less expensive labor by
moving shops from the urban centers in the northeast to the south, and later abroad.
The ethnic and racial character of the ILGWU also changed as European immigrants were
supplanted by Asians, Latin Americans, African- Americans, and immigrants from the
Caribbean.
In July 1995 the ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
(ACTWU) at a joint convention, forming UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and
Textile Employees). At the time the new union had a membership of about 250,000 in
the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
Wilbur Daniels was born in Detroit in 1922. Daniels held several offices in the ILGWU
over more than 40 years, including Research Association and Assistant Director of
Research (1943-1950), Associate General Counsel in the Legal Department (1950-1959),
Assistant to the President (1959-1961), Director of the Master Agreements Department
(1965-1969?), Vice President (1969-1973), and Executive Vice-President (1973-1987).
After leaving the ILGWU in 1987, Daniels was Executive Director of the S.H. and Helen
R. Scheuer Foundation. He remained involved in New York City civic life, serving on
the boards of the Lincoln Center, United Housing Foundation, New York Urban Coalition,
and American Arbitration Association. He died in New York City in 1993.
Contains files maintained by Wilbur Daniels while working as Associate General Counsel
in the Legal Department, Assistant to the President, Director of the Master Agreements
Department, Vice President, and Executive Vice-President. The bulk of the files pertain
to the negotiation of agreements with companies and associations in the 1960s and
1970s.
The ILGWU Records, except for publications and materials produced for publication,
are restricted. Materials created prior to twenty years from the current date are
open to researchers only with prior written permission from the Director of the Kheel
Center; materials created during the past twenty-years are closed; the minutes of
the General Executive Board are closed. For more information contact the Kheel Center.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
ILGWU. Wilbur Daniels papers. 5780/113. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
5780. ILGWU records
5780/084. ILGWU. Wilbur Daniels papers
5780/155. ILGWU. Wilbur Daniels papers
Names:
Daniels, Wilbur,1923-
Daniels, Wilbur, 1923-
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Subjects:
Women's clothing industry -- United States
Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- United States
Clothing workers -- United States
Industrial relations -- United States
CONTAINER LIST
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Associated Sportswear (Majestic Specialties): 1967-1971 [folder 1 of 2]
|
1967-1971 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Associated Sportswear (Majestic Specialties): 1967-1971 [folder 2 of 2]
|
1967-1971 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Associated Corset and Brassiere: Out-of-Town
|
1963-1967 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Corset and Brassiere Out-of-Town Negotiations [folder 1 of 2]
|
1966-1971 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Corset and Brassiere Out-of-Town Negotiations [folder 2 of 2]
|
1966-1971 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Articles and Newspaper Clippings
|
1972-1973 |
Scope and Contents
Yiddish
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Joyce, Andrea
|
1970-1972 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Associated Sportswear: Ridgefield Plant
|
1968-1973 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Newspaper Clipping
|
1967 |
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Associated Sportswear Company Canton: Supplement Signed
|
1970-1973 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Associated Sportswear Canton: Supplement
|
1970-1973 |
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Associated Sportswear Kelita: Supplement Signed
|
1970-1973 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Atlantic Apparel
|
1970 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Associated Sportswear Supplement: Westland Manufacturing, Moreland Sportswear, Charland
Sportswear
|
1970- 1973 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Bali-Hialeah
|
1967-1972 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Berkshire Apparel: Negotiations [folder 1 of 2]
|
1970-1973 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Berkshire Apparel: Negotiations [folder 2 of 2]
|
1970-1973 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Barbizon Corporation: Dubinsky File
|
1953-1965 |
Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Barbizon Corporation
|
1967-1970 |
Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Barbizon Corporation: Working Papers
|
1965-1966 |
Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Bobbie Brooks Incorporated: Knitwear
|
1965-1972 |
Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Bobbie Brooks Incorporated, Washington Garment Company
|
1967-1970 |
Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Bobbie Brooks Incorporated, Stretchini Incorporated
|
1968-1973 |
Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Bobbie Brooks Incorporated: Stacy Ames
|
1970 |
Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Stretchini Incorporated
|
1968-1971 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Imports: Speeches [folder 1 of 2]
|
1973-1978 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Imports: Speeches [folder 2 of 2]
|
1973-1978 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
General Executive Board Committee
|
|
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
New York State Association of Settlement Houses
|
1980-1982 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Wilbur Daniels
|
1973-1980 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Roger Webb: NCUC
|
1978-1980 |
Box 2 | Folder 7 |
New York Dress: Negotiations
|
1979 |
Box 2 | Folder 8 |
New York Salute to the Fashion Industry
|
1979-1980 |
Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Education
|
1978 |
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
General Executive Board
|
1979-1981 |
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Multifiber Arrangement
|
|
Box 2 | Folder 12 |
National Consumer Cooperative Bank
|
1980 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Apparel Jobs Training Corporation
|
1979 |
Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Apparel Jobs Research Corporation
|
1980 |
Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Green-Dolmatch Incorporated
|
1977-1978 |
Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Advertising
|
1980 |
Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Apparel Job Training and Research Corporation
|
1979-1981 |
Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Appeal Committee
|
1979-1980 |
Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation
|
1980 |
Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Correspondence
|
1981 |
Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Unemployment Insurance
|
1981 |
Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Wage Controls
|
1979 |
Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Unity House
|
1978-1979 |
Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Koret
|
1977-1979 |
Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Labor Management Cooperation
|
1978 |
Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Office and Professional Employs International Union
|
1982 |
Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Indochinese Refugees
|
1979 |
Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Homework
|
1981-1984 |
Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Malden Mills Incorporated
|
1980 |
Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Malden Mills Incorporated: 1980
|
1980 |
Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Shop Chairperson's Manual
|
1978 |
Box 2 | Folder 32 |
Trade Adjustment Assistance
|
1978 |
Scope and Contents
October 19, 1978
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 33 |
Unemployment Insurance
|
1975-1978 |
Box 2 | Folder 34 |
Mediation and Termination Notices
|
1979 |
Box 2 | Folder 35 |
Master Agreements (Firms)
|
1981 |