Zierlin, Abe Collection of ILGWU Convention Photographs, 1953-1962
Collection Number: 6036/093 P
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Abe Zierlin Collection of ILGWU Convention Photographs, 1953-1962
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6036/093 P
Creator:
Zierlin, Abba (Abe)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Quanitities:
0.78 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.
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Abe Zierlin Collection of ILGWU Convention Photographs #6036/093 P. Kheel Center for
Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
|
Description
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Date
|
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Thirty First Convention - International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Convention
Auditorium, Atlantic City, N.J. -- May 23-June 1, 1962
|
1962 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Delegation - 28th Convention of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union --
May 18 to 26, 1953 - Chicago, Ill.
|
1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
30th Convention - International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, A.F.L.-C.I.O., Miami
Beach, Florida -- May 11 to 19, 1959
|
1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Twenty-ninth Convention - ILGWU - A.F.L.-C.I.O., Atlantic City, NJ -- May 10-18, 1956
|
1956 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
30th Convention - International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union-A.F.L.-C.I.O., Miami
Beach, Florida -- May 11 to 19, 1959
|
1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Thirty-First Convention - International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Convention
Auditorium, Atlantic City, N.J. -- May 23-June 1, 1962
|
1962 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Opening Session - 28th Convention of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
-- May 18 to 26, 1953 - Civic Opera House, Chicago, Ill.
|
1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Second Session, 28th Convention of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
-- May 18 to 26, 1953 - Chicago, Ill.
|
1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Thirty-First Convention - International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union - Convention
Auditorium, Atlantic City, NJ -- May 23-June 1, 1962
|
1962 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Twenty-ninth Convention - International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union - Convention
Hall, Atlantic City, NJ -- May 10-18, 1956
|
1956 |