ILGWU Robert Lazar's Guide to the Records on Microfilm, 1984
Collection Number: 5780 mf
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
ILGWU Robert Lazar's Guide to the Records on Microfilm, 1984
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5780 mf
Abstract:
This collection includes records and papers by union locals and officers of the ILGWU:
Local 10 (Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters Union); David Dubinsky (President) Papers;
Louis Stulberg (General Secretary Treasurer) Papers; Frederick F. Umhey (Exectutive
Secretary) Papers; Morris Sigman (President) Papers; Benjamin Schlesinger (President)
Papers; Local 10 Records (Managers Correspondence); Local 9 (Cloak & Suit Finishers
Union) (Managers Correspondence); Local 22 Zimmerman, Charles S. - Dressmakers' Union
Records; ILGWWU General Executive Board Minutes; New York Cloak Joint Board Records;
Local 22 Records; Luigi Antonini (General Secretary, Italian Dressmakers' Union Local
89) Papers; Local 40 (Beltmakers' Union) Records; Upper South Dept. Baltimore Joint
Board; Local 48 (Italian Cloakmakers Union) Records, Local 72, 192 - Toronto Cloak
Joint Board Records, Locals 14, 68, 83, 92, 94; Chicago Joint Board Records; Joint
Board Dress & Waistmakers' Union of Greater New York; Cleveland Joint Board Records;
Education Department Records (Fannia M. Cohn, Executive Secretary); Gus Tyler (Assistant
President) Records; Local 105 Records; Local 155 Records; Boston Joint Board Records;
Research Department - Collection Document; Southeast Region Records; Union Health
Center Records; Miscellaneous; International Relations Department (henoch Mendelsund,
Director) Records; San Francisco Joint Board Records. A negative copy is available
upon request.
Creator:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Lazar, Robert
Quanitities:
0.11 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.
This collection includes records and papers by union locals and officers of the ILGWU:
Local 10 (Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters Union); David Dubinsky (President)
Papers; Louis Stulberg (General Secretary Treasurer) Papers; Frederick F. Umhey (Exectutive
Secretary) Papers; Morris Sigman (President) Papers; Benjamin Schlesinger (President)
Papers; Local 10 Records (Managers Correspondence); Local 9 (Cloak & Suit Finishers
Union) (Managers Correspondence); Local 22 Zimmerman, Charles S. - Dressmakers' Union
Records; ILGWWU General Executive Board Minutes; New York Cloak Joint Board Records;
Local 22 Records; Luigi Antonini (General Secretary, Italian Dressmakers' Union Local
89) Papers; Local 40 (Beltmakers' Union) Records; Upper South Dept. Baltimore Joint
Board; Local 48 (Italian Cloakmakers Union) Records, Local 72, 192 - Toronto Cloak
Joint Board Records, Locals 14, 68, 83, 92, 94; Chicago Joint Board Records; Joint
Board Dress & Waistmakers' Union of Greater New York; Cleveland Joint Board Records;
Education Department Records (Fannia M. Cohn, Executive Secretary); Gus Tyler (Assistant
President) Records; Local 105 Records; Local 155 Records; Boston Joint Board Records;
Research Department - Collection Document; Southeast Region Records; Union Health
Center Records; Miscellaneous; International Relations Department (henoch Mendelsund,
Director) Records; San Francisco Joint Board Records.
A negative copy is available upon request.
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference
archivist for access to these materials.
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
ILGWU Robert Lazar's Guide to the Records on Microfilm #5780 mf. Kheel Center for
Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Lazar, Robert.
Subjects:
Clothing workers x Labor unions z United States.
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Robert Lazar's original 1984 guide to the ILGWU collection
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