New York Coat and Suit Association. Records., 1910-1969
Collection Number: 6036/021
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
New York Coat and Suit Association Records., 1910-1969
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6036/021
Abstract:
This collection contains correspondence and memoranda, meeting materials, financial
records, surveys, and bulletins of the New York Coat and Suit Association and related
organizations.
Creator:
New York Coat and Suit Association
Quanitities:
7 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Founded in 1900 by local union delegates representing about 2,000 members in cities
in the northeastern United States, the ILGWU grew in geographical scope, membership
size, 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. In 1995, the ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated
Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial
and Textile Employees (UNITE).
The New York Coat and Suit Association was an organization comprised of coat and suit
manufacturers in New York City. The majority of the records in the collection are
during the tenure of Joseph Dubow, who was the executive director for many years.
The collection contains material of local matters including tax, city government,
insurance, unemployment, and commercial rent. Also included is material of national
matters including documents on the cleaning instruction label that appears on garments,
known as the "care" label, flammability regulations of fabric, numerous documents
on the impact of imports in the textile industry, and records and correspondence regarding
the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in particular the Wool Products Labeling Act of
1939, advertising allowances, and fake fur labeling. A section of the collection consists
of special notice fliers advertising meetings and events, general mass correspondence
to members, and bulletins, all arranged according to year. Many surveys and studies
of the coat and suit industry with statistics, trends and market data, buying behavior
and opinions are present, as well as public relations material along with photographs
for ad campaigns, one marketing fake fur to children and teens.
Much of the collection contains records from other organizations and associations,
including bound meeting minute books from the Executive Committee of the Cloak, Suit
and Skirt Manufacturers Protective Association from 1910-1917. There is correspondence
and documents of the Apparel Industries Inter-Association Committee (comprised of
apparel manufacturing associations, though originally formed by a few outerwear apparel
associations) of which the New York Coat and Suit Association was a member.
A large component of the collection includes the records of the National Coat and
Suit Industry Recovery Boards, the organization that was formed in 1935 with management
and labor to continue the codes and standards set forth by the National Recovery Administration.
Contained in the collection are the reports from the Executive Board meetings, the
bound reports and resolutions from the yearly National Executive Board meetings, constitutions
and by-laws, and financial statements. Other information and documents of the National
Coat and Suit Industry Recovery Boards can be found in the related collection 6036/010.
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
New York Coat and Suit Association. Records. #6036/021. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 5780: ILGWU records 5780/020: ILGWU. New York Cloak Joint Board records 6036/010: National Coat & Suit Industry Recovery Board records
Names:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union -- Archives.
Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' Protective Association (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- New York
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Minutes of the Executive Committee, The Cloak, Suit and Manufacturers' Protective
Association
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1910-1914 |
Scope and Contents
Bound volume
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Minutes of the Executive Committee, The Cloak, Suit and Manufacturers' Protective
Association
|
1915-1916 |
Scope and Contents
Bound volume
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Minutes of the Executive Committee, The Cloak, Suit and Manufacturers' Protective
Association
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1917 |
Scope and Contents
Bound volume
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Local matters: City sales tax
|
1972 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Local matters: Crime prevention program
|
1971-1975 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Local matters: Insurance pilferage
|
1963-1971 |
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Local matters: Mayor John Lindsay tax program
|
1966 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Local matters: Mayor's office/Apparel
|
1966-1976 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Local matters: New York unemployment insurance
|
1959-1976 |
Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Local matters: New York unemployment insurance
|
1963-1964 |
Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Local matters: Occupancy tax
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1963 |
Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Local matters: Joint Rent Action Committee
|
1959-1962 |
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Local matters: Rent control
|
1959-1970 |
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Local matters: Trucking strike
|
1961 |
Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Local matters: Waste disposal
|
1968-1970 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Miscellaneous: Apparel Association of America, proposed new national organization
|
1965 |
Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Miscellaneous: Apparel Industries Inter-Association Committee correspondence
|
1962-1975 |
Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Miscellaneous: Apparel Industries Inter-Association Committee dues
|
1965-1973 |
Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Miscellaneous: Apparel Industries Inter-Association Committee members
|
1962-1969 |
Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Miscellaneous: Apparel Industries Inter-Association Committee proposed new organization
|
1974-1975 |
Box 2 | Folder 18 |
National matters: "Care" labeling, Federal Trade Commission [Folder 1 of 2]
|
1967-1973 |
Box 2 | Folder 19 |
National matters: "Care" labeling, Federal Trade Commission [Folder 2 of 2]
|
1967-1973 |
Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Exports
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|
Scope and Contents
No date
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Box 2 | Folder 21 |
National matters: Flammable fabrics
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1970-1974 |
Box 2 | Folder 22 |
National matters: Freight Traffic Services (Richard Tobey, President)
|
1969-1976 |
Box 2 | Folder 23 |
National matters: Imports, chief weight
|
1977 |
Box 2 | Folder 24 |
National matters: Imports [Folder 1 of 2]
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1966-1975 |
Box 2 | Folder 25 |
National matters: Imports [Folder 2 of 2]
|
1966-1975 |
Box 2 | Folder 26 |
National matters: Interstate sales tax
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1961-1975 |
Box 2 | Folder 27 |
National matters: Wool imports, rule 26
|
1953-1972 |
Box 2 | Folder 28 |
National matters: Wool imports
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1963-1966 |
Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Trade practices: Dating
|
1964 |
Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Trade practices: Pre-ticketing
|
1962-1973 |
Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Trade practices: Trade provisions and regulations
|
1955-1975 |
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Spare notices
|
1969 |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Spare notices
|
1968 |
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Spare notices
|
1967 |
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Spare notices
|
1966 |
Box 3 | Folder 5a |
Spare notices
|
1966 |
Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Spare notices
|
1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 6a |
Spare notices
|
1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Spare notices
|
1964 |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Spare notices
|
1963 |
Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Spare notices [Folder 1 of 3]
|
1962 |
Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Spare notices [Folder 2 of 3]
|
1962 |
Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Spare notices [Folder 3 of 3]
|
1962 |
Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Spare notices
|
1961 |
Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Spare notices
|
1960 |
Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Spare notices
|
1959 |
Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Spare notices
|
1958 |
Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Spare notices
|
1957 |
Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Spare notices
|
1956 |
Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Spare notices
|
1955 |
Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Spare notices
|
1954 |
Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Spare notices
|
1953 |
Box 3 | Folder 20 |
Spare notices
|
1952 |
Box 3 | Folder 21 |
Spare notices
|
1951 |
Box 3 | Folder 22 |
Spare notices
|
1950 |
Box 3 | Folder 23 |
Spare notices
|
1949 |
Box 3 | Folder 24 |
Spare notices
|
1948 |
Box 3 | Folder 25 |
Spare notices
|
1947 |
Box 3 | Folder 26 |
Spare notices
|
1946 |
Box 3 | Folder 27 |
Spare notices
|
1945 |
Box 3 | Folder 28 |
Spare notices
|
1942 |
Box 3 | Folder 29 |
Spare notices
|
1941 |
Box 4 | Folder 1 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1967 |
Scope and Contents
29th meeting
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Box 4 | Folder 2 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1966 |
Scope and Contents
28th meeting
|
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Box 4 | Folder 3 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1961 |
Scope and Contents
25th meeting
|
|||
Box 4 | Folder 4 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1960 |
Scope and Contents
24th meeting
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|||
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1959 |
Scope and Contents
23rd meeting
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|||
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1958 |
Scope and Contents
22nd meeting
|
|||
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1957 |
Scope and Contents
21st meeting
|
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Box 4 | Folder 8 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1956 |
Scope and Contents
20th meeting
|
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Box 4 | Folder 9 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1955 |
Scope and Contents
19th meeting
|
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Box 4 | Folder 10 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1954 |
Scope and Contents
18th meeting
|
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Box 4 | Folder 11 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1953 |
Scope and Contents
17th meeting
|
|||
Box 4 | Folder 12 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1952 |
Scope and Contents
16th meeting
|
|||
Box 4 | Folder 13 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1951 |
Scope and Contents
15th meeting
|
|||
Box 4 | Folder 14 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1950 |
Scope and Contents
14th meeting
|
|||
Box 4 | Folder 15 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1949 |
Scope and Contents
13th meeting
|
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Box 4 | Folder 16 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1947 |
Scope and Contents
12th meeting
|
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Box 4 | Folder 17 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, semi-annual meeting
|
1947 |
Box 4 | Folder 18 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1946 |
Scope and Contents
11th meeting
|
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Box 4 | Folder 19 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1944 |
Scope and Contents
9th meeting
|
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Box 5 | Folder 1 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
8th meeting
|
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Box 5 | Folder 2 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1942 |
Scope and Contents
7th meeting
|
|||
Box 5 | Folder 3 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, semi-annual meeting
|
1941 |
Box 5 | Folder 4 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1941 |
Scope and Contents
6th meeting
|
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Box 5 | Folder 5 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1941 |
Scope and Contents
6th meeting
|
|||
Box 5 | Folder 6 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, semi-annual meeting
|
1940 |
Box 5 | Folder 7 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1939 |
Scope and Contents
4th meeting
|
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Box 5 | Folder 8 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, meeting of the Executive Board
|
1938 |
Scope and Contents
3rd meeting
|
|||
Box 5 | Folder 9 |
National Board of the Coast and Suit Industry, semi-annual meeting
|
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Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Reports and Resolutions of Executive Board
|
1958-1961 |
Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Reports and Resolutions of Executive Board
|
1954-1957 |
Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Reports and Resolutions of Executive Board
|
1950-1953 |
Box 5 | Folder 13 |
Coat and suit survey [Folder 1 of 3]
|
1965-1966 |
Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Coat and suit survey [Folder 2 of 3]
|
1965-1966 |
Box 5 | Folder 15 |
Coat and suit survey [Folder 3 of 3]
|
1965-1966 |
Box 5 | Folder 16 |
Coat and suit survey binder
|
|
Scope and Contents
Empty, contents of binder in folders 13 through 15.
|
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Box 5 | Folder 17 |
Coat and Suit Merchandising Study, Part 1: A Study of Store Buyers and Resident Buyers
|
1963 |
Scope and Contents
Circa 1963
|
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Box 5 | Folder 18 |
Publications on women's garment industry
|
1946-1971 |
Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Audits and surveys [Folder 1 of 3]
|
1963-1964 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Audits and surveys [Folder 2 of 3]
|
1963-1964 |
Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Audits and surveys [Folder 3 of 3]
|
1963-4964 |
Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Award luncheon, contest, May 17, 1962
|
1962 |
Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Bell and Stanton
|
1969 |
Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Bell and Stanton, public relations committee
|
1968-1970 |
Box 6 | Folder 7 |
By-laws and constitution
|
1940-1964 |
Box 6 | Folder 8 |
By-laws
|
1969-1971 |
Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Federal Trade Commission, Wool Products Labeling Act
|
1966 |
Box 6 | Folder 10 |
Coat and Suit Festival
|
1965 |
Box 6 | Folder 11 |
Wilbur Daniels
|
1965 |
Box 6 | Folder 12 |
Eastern Region Conference, June 1968
|
1968 |
Box 6 | Folder 13 |
Federal Trade Commission Parley, Washington, October 17, 1962 re Advertising Allowances
[Folder 2 of 2]
|
1962 |
Box 6 | Folder 14 |
Federal Trade Commission Parley, Washington, October 17, 1962 re Advertising Allowances
[Folder 1 of 2]
|
1962 |
Box 6 | Folder 15 |
Federal Trade Commission and Rabiner & Jontow, Inc. (Erwin Feldman, attorney)
|
1965 |
Box 6 | Folder 16 |
Federal Trade Commission, fake furs
|
1963-1964 |
Box 6 | Folder 17 |
Financial statements
|
1970 |
Box 6 | Folder 18 |
Financial statements
|
1969 |
Box 6 | Folder 19 |
Label sales
|
1963-1971 |
Box 6 | Folder 20 |
Public relations [Folder 1 of 2]
|
1968 |
Box 6 | Folder 21 |
Public relations [Folder 2 of 2]
|
1968 |
Box 6 | Folder 22 |
Subcommittee on Traffic [Folder 1 of 2]
|
1970-1972 |
Box 6 | Folder 23 |
Subcommittee on Traffic [Folder 2 of 2]
|
1970-1972 |
Box 6 | Folder 24 |
Subcommittee on Traffic proposed reorganization
|
1970 |
Box 6 | Folder 25 |
Manufacturer's Council (Canada)
|
1968 |
Box 6 | Folder 26 |
Representative John G. Dow
|
1968-1969 |
Box 6 | Folder 27 |
Pacific Coast Regional meetings
|
1966-1968 |
Box 6 | Folder 28 |
Los Angeles Coat and Suit Manufacturers
|
1965-1971 |
Box 6 | Folder 29 |
Administrative committee
|
1969-1970 |
Box 6 | Folder 30 |
Research Department statistics
|
1964-1970 |
Box 6 | Folder 31 |
Coat and suit survey [Folder 1 of 2]
|
1964-1965 |
Box 6 | Folder 32 |
Coat and suit survey [Folder 2 of 2]
|
1964-1965 |
Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence, reports
|
1974-1976 |
Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence, reports
|
1972-1973 |
Scope and Contents
August 1972-December 1973
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Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence, reports
|
1972 |
Scope and Contents
March 1972-July 1972
|
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Box 7 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence, reports
|
1972 |
Scope and Contents
February 1972.
|
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Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence, reports
|
1966 |
Box 7 | Folder 6 |
Financial data
|
1969-1972 |
Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Apparel industry, historical background
|
1940-1949 |
Box 8 | Folder 2 |
Coat and suit, low end merchandise survey
|
1938-1939 |
Box 8 | Folder 3 |
Independent Association of Women's Apparel Manufacturers v. ILGWU
|
1952 |
Box 8 | Folder 4 |
Administration of designations under limitation
|
1941 |
Box 8 | Folder 5 |
Apparel industry, section work, time studies
|
1934-1953 |
Box 8 | Folder 6 |
Transcription of first hearing on coat and suit code authority
|
1933 |
Box 8 | Folder 7 |
Codes
|
1933-1955 |
Box 8 | Folder 8 |
Codes, surveys, background material
|
1953-1972 |