Max Meyer Papers
Collection Number: 5221
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
Max Meyer Papers, 1925-1979
Collection Number:
5221
Creator:
Meyer, Max
Quantity:
4.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Papers (documents).
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Papers documenting Meyer's work as Chairman of the NRA, Millinery Code Authority and later Chairman of the Millinery Stabilization
Commission, as well as other aspects of his career (as banker, arbitrator, and community
leader).
Language:
Collection material in English
1876 Born March 29.
1910 Member, employees group which negotiated "Protocol of Peace".
1918 Founded, Urban League of White Plains, New York.
1920's Secretary, Industrial Council of the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers Protective Association.
1929 Retired as partner of A. Beller and Co.
1931 Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt named Meyer to Commission to study medical treatment for workers under workers' compensation.
1931 Member, State Industrial Council.
1933 Member, Labor Board of NRA.
1934 Chairman, Millinery Code Authority, NRA.
1934 Head, Hotel and Restaurant Minimum Wage Board, NYSDOL.
1937 Chairman, Millinery Stabilization Commission.
1937 Member, NYS Board of Mediation.
1940 Chairman, Needlecraft Educational Commission (Advisory Board for Central High School Needle Trades).
1945 Chairman, Educational Foundation, Apparel Industry.
1951 Chairman, Board of Trustees, Fashion Institute of Technology.
1952 President, Fashion Institute of Technology.
1953 Died January 31.
The major portion of this collection covers the period 1934-1938 at which time Meyer was Chairman of the NRA, Millinery Code
Authority and later Chairman of the Millinery Stabilization Commission. However, items covering other aspects of his
career (as banker, arbitrator, and community leader) can be found throughout the collection.
Names:
Meyer, Max, 1876-1953
Form and Genre Terms:
Papers (documents)
Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
Max Meyer Papers #5221. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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Box 1 | Folder 1 | 1934-1953 | |
Re: appointment on National Panel of Arbitrators of American Arbitrators Association, with Paul Abelson; with Dean Acheson,
(Secretary of State), and routine.
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Box 1 | Folder 2 | 1934-1935 | |
Includes copies of Orders of Code of Fair Competition for the Millinery Industry; letters from National Recovery Administration,
H. Rose, Chief, Code Record Section, re appointment of Meyer as Director and Chairman of the Code Authority
of the Millinery Industry, 1/8/35 and routine.
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Box 1 | Folder 3 | 1934 | |
Routine.
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Box 1 | Folder 4 | 1935 | |
Includes letters from various individuals thanking Meyer for sending copies of the 1st Annual Report of the Code Authority
of the Millinery Industry.
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Box 1 | Folder 5 | 1934-1935 | |
Correspondence with Bessie Beatty, Secretary of the Council regarding garment labels, meetings; by-laws and reports.
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Box 1 | Folder 6 | 1935 | |
Correspondence re lobbying for extension of N.R.A. by Code members.
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Box 1 | Folder 7 | 1937-1941 | |
Many letters of recommendation for employment of immigrants and others from Meyer; correspondence from Frances Perkins (10/3/38)
in the form of a recommendation for employment of an acquaintence.
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Box 1 | Folder 8 | 1937-1942 | |
Many letters of recommendation for employment of immigrants and others from Meyer; correspondence from Frances Perkins (10/3/38)
in the form of a recommendation for employment of an acquaintence.
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Box 1 | Folder 9 | 1934 | |
re applications from individuals for employment with Code Authority.
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Box 1 | Folder 10 | 1934-1935 | |
Information re apprentice training from Federal Committee on Apprentice Training.
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Box 1 | Folder 11 | 1951 | |
Correspondence re dates for hearings and miscellaneous.
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Box 1 | Folder 12 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 13 | 1934 | |
re N.R.A. labels.
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Box 1 | Folder 14 | 1934-1951 | |
re Henri Bendel, Inc. case before NLRB; with Paul F. Brissenden re dedication of Fashion Institute of Technology (1951) and
others.
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Box 1 | Folder 15 | 1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 1 | Folder 16 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 1 | Folder 17 | 1935 | |
Meyer, Chairman, Industry Committee for Birthday Ball for the President (Roosevelt) to raise funds for research to combat
infantile paralysis.
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Box 1 | Folder 18 | 1934-1937 | |
Personal Correspondence.
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Box 1 | Folder 19 | 1934-1935 | |
Printed budget of the "Code Authority of the Millinery Industry" January-June 1935 and other financial information.
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Box 2 | Folder 1 | 1934-1936 | |
Routine.
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Box 2 | Folder 2 | 1934-1935 | |
Code of Authority form letter sent out by Meyer; two issues of "Code Authority News" (1934) and publications.
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Box 2 | Folder 3 | 1934 | |
Includes certificate of Incorporation and By-laws of the National Millinery Code Authority.
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Box 2 | Folder 4 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 2 | Folder 5 | 1934-1935 | |
(Deputy Administrator, N.R.A.) re routine.
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Box 2 | Folder 6 | 1934-1935 | |
Rre suit filed by Chicago Millinery Manufacturers against the Code Authority.
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Box 2 | Folder 7 | 1934-1935 | |
re regulations covering use of labels and routine.
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Box 2 | Folder 8 | 1935 | |
re Chicago Injunction Suit and expenditures by Code Authority staff.
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Box 2 | Folder 9 | 1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 2 | Folder 10 | 1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 2 | Folder 11 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine. (Code Administration Director, N.R.A.)
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Box 2 | Folder 12 | 1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 2 | Folder 13 | 1933-1937 | |
Includes correspondence with Mary Drier and David Dubinsky, routine.
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Box 2 | Folder 14 | 1934-1935 | |
Completed report forms.
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Box 2 | Folder 15 | 1934-1935 | |
re violations of wage and hour provisions of the Code.
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Box 2 | Folder 16 | 1934-1935 | |
(Chairman, Special Millinery Board) routine.
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Box 2 | Folder 17 | 1934 | |
re definition of a "cutter" and routine.
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Box 2 | Folder 18 | 1934-1935 | |
(Counsel, Millinery Code Authority) routine.
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Box 3 | Folder 1 | 1934-1935 | |
Includes correspondence re extension of N.R.A. and routine.
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Box 3 | Folder 2 | 1934-1935 | |
Includes correspondence and radio addresses, Edward L. Fries, Label Review Officer, Compliance Director, N.R.A. and routine.
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Box 3 | Folder 3 | 1934-1935 | |
Correspondence with Falk, (Catalina Hats, Ltd.) member, Code Authority for the Pacific Coast re market conditions and code
enforcements and routine.
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Box 3 | Folder 4 | 1945-1979 | |
Correspondence, newsletter, clippings, release, history.
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Box 3 | Folder 5 | 1934 | |
Routine.
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Box 3 | Folder 6 | 1937 | |
Re labor problems and subsequent strike.
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Box 3 | Folder 7 | 1935 | |
re code violations and routine.
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Box 3 | Folder 8 | ||
Letters sent to Code Authority members.
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Box 3 | Folder 9 | 1925-1947 | |
Report on Hudson River State Hospital (NYS Commission on Mental Hygiene); Letter from Morris Hillquit (1925).
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Box 3 | Folder 10 | 1934-1935 | |
Correspondence re granting exemption of the Code of Fair Competition.
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Box 3 | Folder 11 | 1934-1935 | |
Includes 18 page report - "Special Commission Studying Labor Conditions in the Cap and Cloth Hat Industry"; Correspondence
with Paul F. Brissenden, (Chairman of Special Commission for Cap and Cloth Hat Industry), re Commission findings;
and routine.
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Box 3 | Folder 12 | 1934-1935 | |
Chairman, Millinery Quality Guild re routine.
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Box 3 | Folder 13 | 1936-1978 | |
Correspondence, clippings, newsletters, programs, letter from Eleanor Roosevelt re murals by Ernest Fience in Auditorium of
High School.
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Box 3 | Folder 14 | 1940-1944 | |
Letter from Meyer to Reporter Dispatch criticizing an editorial about Hillman and routine.
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Box 3 | Folder 15 | 1934-1935 | |
Correspondence, meeting announcements and minutes of New York State Industrial Council and routine.
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Box 3 | Folder 16 | 1949-1952 | |
Re achievements in the garment industry including Meyer's contribution.
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Box 3 | Folder 17 | 1937-1952 | |
Correspondence re minimum wage law, longshoreman strike and routine business. With Edward Corsi, Industrial Commissioner.
With Frieda S. Miller, Industrial Commissioner; Rose Schneiderman, Secretary. Also: Includes minutes.
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Box 3 | Folder 18 | 1937-1953 | |
Correspondence re minimum wage law, longshoreman strike and routine business. With Edward Corsi, Industrial Commissioner.
With Frieda S. Miller, Industrial Commissioner; Rose Schneiderman, Secretary. Also: Includes minutes.
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Box 4 | Folder 1 | 1933-1935 | |
re jurisdiction controversy between Infants Code and Millinery Code; Includes Conference minutes and related documents; also
correspondence with Maxwell Copelof, Director of Code Authority, Infants and Children's Wear, and others.
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Box 4 | Folder 2 | 1933-1935 | |
Box 4 | Folder 3 | 1935 | |
Correspondence with Paul F. Brissenden, Chairman of the Board, and others.
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Box 4 | Folder 4 | 1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 4 | Folder 5 | 1934 | |
re the operation of the Code Authority - includes reports and minutes.
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Box 4 | Folder 6 | 1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 4 | Folder 7 | 1934-1935 | |
Divisional Supervisor of Code, San Francisco re Continuance of N.R.A., Firms on strike in Los Angeles; Reports and routine.
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Box 4 | Folder 8 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 4 | Folder 9 | 1934-1935 | |
re Homework regulations; Code overlapping controversy between Knitted Industry and Millinery Industry.
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Box 4 | Folder 10 | 1934-1935 | |
re Homework regulations; Code overlapping controversy between Knitted Industry and Millinery Industry.
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Box 4 | Folder 11 | ||
Routine.
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Box 4 | Folder 12 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 4 | Folder 13 | ||
Includes statistical information.
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Box 4 | Folder 14 | 1945 | |
Personal letter from Meyer.
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Box 4 | Folder 15 | 1949-1950 | |
Correspondence re arbitration matters.
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Box 4 | Folder 16 | 1934-1965 | |
Includes letters to Meyer's daughter as well as Mr. Meyer re personal.
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Box 4 | Folder 17 | 1934-1935 | |
Inter-office correspondence re violations.
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Box 4 | Folder 18 | 1934-1935 | |
Inter-office correspondence.
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Box 4 | Folder 19 | 1937-1952 | |
personal re arbitration and miscellaneous.
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Box 4 | Folder 20 | 1934-1935 | |
Includes reports and inter-office correspondence.
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Box 5 | Folder 1 | ||
Lists of committees and members; miscellaneous.
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Box 5 | Folder 2 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine business correspondence.
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Box 5 | Folder 3 | 1934-1935 | |
re routine legal matters.
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Box 5 | Folder 4 | ||
routine.
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Box 5 | Folder 5 | 1934-1948 | |
with George Meany, President, New York State Federation of Labor and routine business correspondence.
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Box 5 | Folder 6 | 1936-1952 | |
(Director, Division of Women in Industry, New York State Department of Labor) and later Industry Commissioner. Re personal
and business correspondence.
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Box 5 | Folder 7 | 1934 | |
re demand for a stay on the Labor provisions of the Code.
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Box 5 | Folder 8 | 1934-1935 | |
Correspondence re proposed National Millinery
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Box 5 | Folder 9 | 1934-1935 | |
Association and routine.
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Box 5 | Folder 10 | 1937-1952 | |
Includes reports, correspondence concerning the difficulties in the industry; ten page speech by Meyer; resolutions and miscellaneous.
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Box 5 | Folder 11 | 1937-1952 | |
Includes reports, correspondence concerning the difficulties in the industry; ten page speech by Meyer; resolutions and miscellaneous.
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Box 5 | Folder 12 | 1935-1940 | |
(Meyer, Member) Correspondence with Frieda Miller, Director of Division of Women in Industry, re wages and hours in hotels
and restaurants and other related correspondence.
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Box 5 | Folder 13 | 1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 5 | Folder 14 | 1935 | |
Correspondence with Julius Frank, President, National Straw Works (Wisconsin) re problems with business; New York City Board
of Education and routine.
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Box 5 | Folder 15 | 1937 | |
Includes minutes of Planning Committee; and correspondence.
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Box 5 | Folder 16 | 1933-1934 | |
Routine.
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Box 5 | Folder 17 | 1935 | |
Includes Agreement, By-laws, correspondence and routine.
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Box 6 | Folder 1 | 1937 | |
Meyer, Impartial Chairman, re case between Nedick's and the union. Includes correspondence, decision, agreement.
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Box 6 | Folder 2 | 1937 | |
Meyer, Impartial Chairman, re case between Nedick's and the union. Includes correspondence, decision, agreement.
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Box 6 | Folder 3 | 1937 | |
Meyer, Impartial Chairman, re case between Nedick's and the union. Includes correspondence, decision, agreement.
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Box 6 | Folder 4 | 1937 | |
Meyer, Impartial Chairman, re case between Nedick's and the union. Includes correspondence, decision, agreement.
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Box 6 | Folder 5 | 1937 | |
Meyer, Impartial Chairman, re case between Nedick's and the union. Includes correspondence, decision, agreement.
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Box 7 | Folder 1 | ||
Meyer, Impartial Chairman, re case between Nedick's and the union. Includes correspondence, decision, agreement.
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Box 7 | Folder 2 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine correspondence.
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Box 7 | Folder 3 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine personal and business.
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Box 7 | Folder 4 | 1938-1941 | |
Correspondence re vocational education; creation of a State Youth Service Commission, possible merger with National Child
Labor Committee; dissolution of the committee; and other related matters.
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Box 7 | Folder 5 | 1937-1948 | |
Correspondence re various cases with Specialty Bakery Owners of America, Bloomingdale's, D.A. Schultze, Inc., Stern Brothers,
United Cigar-Whelan Stores Corp., Greenwood Cemetary and others. Correspondence re Ives Joint Legislative
Committee; other related correspondence.
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Box 7 | Folder 6 | 1937-1948 | |
Correspondence re various cases with Specialty Bakery Owners of America, Bloomingdale's, D.A. Schultze, Inc., Stern Brothers,
United Cigar-Whelan Stores Corp., Greenwood Cemetary and others. Correspondence re Ives Joint Legislative
Committee; other related correspondence.
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Box 7 | Folder 7 | 1937-1948 | |
Correspondence re various cases with Specialty Bakery Owners of America, Bloomingdale's, D.A. Schultze, Inc., Stern Brothers,
United Cigar-Whelan Stores Corp., Greenwood Cemetary and others. Correspondence re Ives Joint Legislative
Committee; other related correspondence.
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Box 7 | Folder 8 | 1938-1953 | |
Alleged discrimination in American Legion membership, hospitals, building trade unions in Westchester County; and routine.
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Box 7 | Folder 9 | 1935-1938 | |
Routine.
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Box 7 | Folder 10 | 1948-1952 | |
re Joint Board of Sanitary Control and other personal and related correspondence.
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Box 7 | Folder 11 | 1934 | |
Routine.
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Box 7 | Folder 12 | 1934-1940 | |
Routine.
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Box 7 | Folder 13 | 1934 | |
Routine.
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Box 7 | Folder 14 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 7 | Folder 15 | 1930-1953 | |
Personal and routine.
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Box 7 | Folder 16 | 1925-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 7 | Folder 17 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 7 | Folder 18 | 1928-1948 | |
Correspondence re problems in the Millinery Industry. Also letter from Eleanor Roosevelt thanking Meyer for sending her his
speech; includes a group photograph (unidentified) except for Roosevelt.
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Box 7 | Folder 19 | 1934-1952 | |
Routine.
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Box 7 | Folder 20 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 1 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 2 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 3 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 4 | 1937 | |
Correspondence with Edward Keating, Editor, Labor re insurance and exemption of bank employees from Social Security Law and
other related matters.
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Box 8 | Folder 5 | ||
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 6 | 1935 | |
Discussion of a National Millinery Association.
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Box 8 | Folder 7 | 1935 | |
Includes 18 page report, "Planning and Education Program for the Millinery Industry", 1934 and routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 8 | 1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 9 | 1935 | |
re refusal to pay for trade name labels and routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 10 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 11 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 12 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 13 | 1948 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 14 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 15 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 16 | 1934 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 17 | 1953 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 18 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 19 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 20 | 1931-1952 | |
Includes Correspondence, programs, clippings, addresses by Meyer - (Meyer received award (1939) for his contribution to vocational
education in New York State).
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Box 8 | Folder 21 | 1931-1952 | |
Includes Correspondence, programs, clippings, addresses by Meyer - (Meyer received award (1939) for his contribution to vocational
education in New York State).
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Box 8 | Folder 22 | 1926-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 23 | 1934 | |
Includes Compliance Division Report.
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Box 8 | Folder 24 | 1943-1944 | |
Includes case - Meyer, Referee, before WLB and routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 25 | 1937-1944 | |
Includes correspondence arranging appointments with Frances Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt and others; and routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 26 | 1934-1935 | |
(Supervisor of Inspection Division, Code Millinery). Re problems of inspection division; violations of the Code and routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 27 | 1948 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 28 | 1934-1935 | |
Routine.
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Box 8 | Folder 29 | 1934-1935 | |
Correspondence in opposition to renewal of Code Authority for Millinery Industry from J.E. Helper, Secretary, Women's Headwear
Group.
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Box 9 | Folder 1 | 1932-1947 | |
Includes letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York State, asking Meyer to serve another year on the Committee
to Review Medical and Hospital Problems in connection with Workmen's Compensation; Correspondence with Mary
Donlon, Chairman, Worker's Compensation Board, New York State re medical education; and routine.
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Box 9 | Folder 2 | 1934-1935 | |
routine.
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Box 9 | Folder 3 | 1934-1935 | |
routine.
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Box 9 | Folder 4 | 1934-1951 | |
Includes personal and business correspondence.
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Box 9 | Folder 5 | 1934-1952 | |
Includes 4 page "Recollections of Max Meyer" by Ben Aaron(?); personal correspondence with Julius H. Cohen, Paul Herzog, Marian
Harron, Mabel Leslie; and other family members.
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Box 9 | Folder 6 | 1927-1939 | |
Includes confidential correspondence (1930) from J.W. Johnston, Rochester, New York offering assistance to Meyer and Governor
Roosevelt's administration and routine and personal.
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Box 9 | Folder 7 | 1940-1941 | |
Letter from Louis Brandeis (1940); personal correspondence with Morris Crawford, editor, Women's Wear Daily; substantial correspondence
with Alpheus Mason, Princeton University, and others concerning information on the life of Justice
Louis Brandeis for Mason's book; Mason particularly requests recollections from Meyer regarding 1910 Protocol Agreement
and other miscellaneous.
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Box 9 | Folder 8 | 1942-1947 | |
Includes additional correspondence re search for information on Brandeis for Alpheus Mason; with Louis Stark (New York Times)
suggesting a national labor commission to handle complaints of union members (1945); medical care; re
denunciation of editorial on Franklin D. Roosevelt; and other miscellaneous.
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Box 9 | Folder 9 | ||
Correspondence with George V. Taylor and miscellaneous.
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Box 9 | Folder 10 | ||
Correspondence with George V. Taylor and miscellaneous.
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Box 9 | Folder 11 | ||
Box 9 | Folder 12 | ||
Box 9 | Folder 13 | 1935-1952 | |
Includes addresses before conventions, meetings, graduation exercises; and other events.
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Box 9 | Folder 14 | 1935 | |
Contains schedules, drafts, handwritten notes.
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Box 9 | Folder 15 | 1934-1942 | |
William F. Chinquy Co.; Bloomingdale Bros.; and M. Walker
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Box 9 | Folder 16 | ||
"History In The Making" by Max Meyer (1948); Typewritten messages (1940's); Articles and clippings re Meyer.
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Box 9 | Folder 17 | 1947 | |
Box 9 | Folder 18 | 1953-1979 | |
Includes letters from Frances Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt, Herbert Lehman and many other notable individuals.
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Box 9 | Folder 19 | 1953-1979 | |
Includes letters from Frances Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt, Herbert Lehman and many other notable individuals.
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Box 10 |