International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Morris Sigman, President. Records, 1923-1928
Collection Number: 5780/006
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
International Ladies
Garment Workers Union. Morris Sigman, President. Records,
1923-1928.
Collection Number:
5780/006
Creator:
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union. President's Office.
Quantity:
3 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
The collection consists of correspondence,
subject files, form letters, circulars, speeches and other items from Morris
Sigman's term as ILGWU president.
Language:
Collection material in English
Sigman was a Russian-born garment worker who emigrated to the U.S. in
1903. He worked in the New York garment industry and quickly became involved in
union activities. He organized the Independent Cloak Pressers' Union and allied
it with the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance. Sigman was also one of the
founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Morris Sigman held leadership roles in a number of garment workers'
unions, including the Joint Board of Cloakmakers and ILGWU Local 35 (New York
Cloak Pressers Union). He was elected Secretary-Treasurer and first
Vice-President of the ILGWU before assuming the Presidency in 1923. He resigned
from office in 1928. His health deteriorating, he retired to a farm in Storm
Lake, Iowa, where he died on July 19, 1931.
Sigman's tenure as president of the ILGWU was a tempestuous one in
which the union faced a long and bitter internal struggle with Communist
members for control of the organization. A lengthy strike of the New York
cloakmakers in 1926 proved to be another costly battle for the union during
this period. But Sigman's term was also marked by some significant
accomplishments, including a reform effort that made possible substantial union
contributions to the restructuring of the garment industry.
Significant individual correspondents include: Luigi Antonini; David
Dubinsky; William Z. Foster; Morris Hillquit; Julius Hochman; Samuel Gompers;
William Green; Herbert H. Lehman; John L. Lewis; Salvatore Ninfo; Meyer
Perlstein; Elias Reisberg; Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York; and Norman
Thomas.
Notable organizations in represented in the collection include: the
American Federation of Labor; the British Trades Union Congress; Brookwood
Labor College; the Chicago Federation of Labor; the Committee of One Hundred
for the Defense of Imprisoned Needle Trade Workers; the Governor's Advisory
Commission on the Cloak and Suit Industry (New York State); the International
Association of Machinists; ILGWU Locals 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 17, 20, 22, 35, 50,
64, and 80; the ILGWU Workers' Education Bureau; the Needle Trade Union
(Warsaw, Poland); Needle Trades Workers' Union of the USSR; the New York State
Federation of Labor; the Tailors' and Garment Workers' Trade Union (Great
Britain); the Trade Union Educational League; the Unemployment Insurance Fund
of the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry of New York City; Union Labor Life
Insurance Company; the United Garment Workers of America; the United Ladies'
Tailors Trade Union (Great Britain); the United Mine Workers of America; Unity
House (the ILGWU-owned workers' resort); radio station WEVD (the Eugene Debs
memorial radio station in New York City); and the Wholesale Dress
Manufacturers' Association.
Among the topics covered are: communist activity in the ILGWU, and the
leadership's battle against a communist takeover of the union; conditions in
the U.S. garment industry, particularly in New York City; education for
workers; inter- and intra-union relations; ILGWU locals, with an emphasis on
the New York City area; strikes in the garment industry (in particular the
Cloakmakers' strike of 1926), as well as in other industries; life and
unemployment insurance for union members; relations with other garment workers'
unions in the U.S., Great Britain, Poland and the Soviet Union, and with the
International Clothing Workers' Federation in Amsterdam; relations with the
garment manufacturers; unemployment insurance; union legal matters; and union
organizing activities.
Names:
International Ladies' Garment Workers'
Union.
Antonini, Luigi,
1883-1968.
Dubinsky, David,
1892-
Foster, William Z.,
1881-1961.
Gompers, Samuel,
1850-1924.
Green, William,
1872-1952.
Hillquit, Morris,
1869-1933.
Hochman, Julius,
1892-1970.
Lehman, Herbert H.
(Herbert Henry), 1878-1963.
Lewis, John Llewellyn,
1880-1969.
Ninfo, Salvatore,
1883-1960.
Perlstein, Meyer,
1884-1958.
Reisberg,
Elias.
Sigman, Morris,
1880-1931.
Smith, Alfred Emanuel,
1873-1944.
Thomas, Norman,
1884-1968.
American Federation of
Labor.
Brookwood Labor College
(Katonah, N.Y.)
Chicago Federation of
Labor and Industrial Union Council.
Committee of One Hundred
for the Defense of Imprisoned Needle Trade Workers.
International Association
of Machinists.
International Clothing
Workers' Federation.
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union--Presidents.
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.--Local 1 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.--Local 2 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.--Local 3 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.--Local 8 (San Francisco, Calif.)
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.--Local 9 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.--Local 11 (Brownsville,N.Y.)
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.--Local 17 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.--Local 20 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.--Local 22 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.--Local 35 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.--Local 50 (Philadelphia, Pa.)
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.--Local 64 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.--Local 80 (Boston, Mass.)
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.--Workers' Education Dept.
New York (State).
Governor's Advisory Commission, Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry, New York
City.
New York State Federation
of Labor.
Soiuz rabochikh shveinoi
promyshlennosti S.S.S.R.
Tailors' and Garment
Workers' Trade Union.
Trade Union Educational
League (U.S.)
Trades Union
Congress.
Union Labor Life
Insurance Company.
United Ladies' Tailors
Trade Union.
United Mine Workers of
America.
Unity House.
WEVD (Radio station) New
York, N.Y.
Wholesale Dress
Manufacturers' Association.
Zwiazek Zawodowy
Robotników Przemyslu Odziezowego w Polsce.
Subjects:
Trade-unions--Clothing workers--United
States.
Trade-unions--Clothing workers--New York
(State)--New York.
Trade-unions--Clothing workers.
Trade-unions--Clothing
workers--Organizing--United States.
Women's clothing industry--United
States.
Women's clothing industry--New York
(State)--New York.
Clothing trade--United States.
Clothing trade--New York (State)--New
York.
Clothing workers--United
States.
Clothing workers--New York (State)--New
York.
Clothing workers.
Insurance, unemployment--United
States.
Strikes and lockouts--Clothing trade--New
York (State)--New York.
Strikes and lockouts--Clothing
trade--United States.
Industrial relations--United
States.
Industrial relations--New York
(State)--New York.
Labor unions and communism--United
States.
Communism--United States.
Labor radio stations--New York
(State)--New York.
Form and Genre Terms:
Circulars
Correspondence
Organization files
Speeches
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Cite As:
International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Morris Sigman,
President. Records, 1923-1928. #5780/006. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
General correspondence is filed alphabetically A-Z, followed by
subject correspondence, A-Z.
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Description
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I. General correspondence
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
A-D.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
E-J.
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Includes Sigman letter to Harry Greenberg re burial
instructions.
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
K-M.
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
N.
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Includes correspondence with editors, Freda Kirchwey,
1925, Louis Garnett, 1927, Nation, Bruce Bliven, 1925, New Republic, on
cloak-makers' strike and internal conflict; text of articles; General Executive
Board order to Union locals on Cloakmakers' strike, Dec. 1926.
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
O-P.
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Includes letters to Police Department on agitation by
Communists in cloak industry, 1927.
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Q-T.
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Includes acknowledgment from Norman Thomas on Sigman's
statement re Communists, July 1925.
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
U-Z.
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II. Correspondence arranged by subject
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Advertisements (in Yiddish papers).
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American Federation of Labor.
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Jan-June 1923.
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Includes correspondence on establishing Legal
Information Bureau, appointing organizer for corset workers in Bridgeport,
Conn.; correspondence between Gompers and Salvatore Ninfo on Fascist groups
planning to march on Memorial Day.
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
July-Nov. 1923.
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Includes resolutions on immigration submitted by Union
delegates to AFL convention, Oct.
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Dec. 1923.
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Continued correspondence on resolutions.
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Jan-April 1924.
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Includes correspondence on appointment of Solomon
Polakoff as organizer, Dec. 1923-Jan. 1924.
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
May-Dec. 1924.
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Includes Sigman letters on merger of Locals 1, 11 and
17 into Operators Union, Oct.-Nov.
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Jan.-March 1925.
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Includes minutes of meeting of Conference Committee of
Trade Union Legislative Representatives, Jan.; correspondence on Samuel Gompers
bust donated by Union.
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
April-May 1925.
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Includes correspondence on drive to organize workers
in Philadelphia; conditions in Puerto Rico.
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
June-Aug. 1925.
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Includes correspondence on situation in China and
relief for striking textile workers in China? German delegation to study
American industrial living conditions.
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Sept-Dec. 1925.
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Includes correspondence on striking coal miners; AFL
releases
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Jan.-Feb. 1926.
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Continued correspondence on striking coal miners,
organizational drives; proposed convict-labor bill.
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
March-Aug. 1926.
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Sept.-Oct. 1926.
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Correspondence on Union organizing Mexican women in
Los Angeles; Union request for financial aid from national and international
unions due to N.Y. Cloakmakers' strike; Union resolution at AFL convention
requesting aid.
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Oct.-Dec. 1926.
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Continued correspondence on Cloakmakers' strike;
acknowledgments to AFL for their support of Union resolution on aiding striking
Cloakmakers.
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Jan.-March 1927.
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Correspondence on internal struggle; statement by
Union to AFL and Green's response
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
April-Oct. 1927.
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Continued correspondence on internal struggle; Sigman
address to AFL convention (47th), Oct.; correspondents Includes Isidore Nagler,
Abraham Plotkin re convention matters.
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Nov.-Dec. 1927.
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Letters from Green re coal miners' strike and Union
support.
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| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Jan-March 1928.
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
April-Dec. 1928.
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Includes correspondence on trade unionism and
communism; organizing needle trades department in AFL; continued correspondence
on striking coal miners.
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| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Antonini, Luigi: 1926-28.
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Includes case, Luigi Antonini vs Angelo LaVilla of Local
89, 1926.
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Berger, Harry (Manager), Jewish Daily Forward,
Philadelphia: 1927
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letter requesting funds for Labor Institute, 1927.
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
British Trades Union Congress: 1924-26.
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| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Brookwood Labor College: 1927-28.
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Includes releases by A.J.Muste (Chairman of Faculty);
correspondence with Roger Baldwin (Director), American Fund for Public Service,
Inc., on payment of Union loan.
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Chicago Federation of Labor: 1924-July 1927.
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Includes correspondence with John Fitzpatrick
(President) on Federation support of N.Y. Cloakmakers' strike; Communist
agitation in trade unions; Union broadcast, "Triumph of Garment Workers Through
Idealism" over WCFL, Voice of Labor Broadcasting, 1927.
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| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Chicago Federation of Labor, Aug. 1927-Jan. 1929.
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Continued correspondence re WCFL and Federal Radio
Commission, 1928-29.
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| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Chicago Joint Board Cloak and Dressmakers Union:
1923-26
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Correspondence with Meyer Perlstein on all facets of
Union activities in Mid-West.
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| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Committee of Fifty of the Cloak and Dressmakers:
1926-28.
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| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Convention (Boston): May 1924.
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Convention call and list of guests.
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| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Convention (Boston): May 1928.
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Congratulatory Messages and Greetings.
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| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Convention; May 1928.
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Invitations; list of convention delegates and
acknowledgments for being invited to convention; arranged alphabetically by
correspondent.
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| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Convention: May 1928.
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Miscellaneous items.
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| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Convention: May 1928.
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Includes resolutions introduced by local delegates and
joint boards.
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Form Letters and Circulars: 1923.
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| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Form Letters and Circulars: 1924.
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| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Form Letters and Circulars: Jan-Oct. 1925 (dated).
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Form Letters and Circulars: 1925 (n.d.), 1926.
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Form Letters and Circulars: 1928 (undated).
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Includes broadsides, pamphlets.
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Government Advisory Commission: 1924.
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Correspondence, memoranda, for Commission.
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| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Government Advisory Commission: 1925-26.
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Includes letters from Raymond V. Ingersoll (Impartial
Chairman), Cloak and Suit Industry re meetings.
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| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Government Advisory Commission, Printed Material: 1924.
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Commission reports, recommendations, statements,
hearings and decisions.
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| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Government Advisory Commission: 1925.
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Same as above; memorandum on behalf of Union; newspaper
clippings.
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| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Hillquit, Morris: 1923-24.
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Correspondence, legal matters and case, Miller,
Franklin, Basset vs Cleveland Joint Board, 1924.
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| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Hillquit, Morris: 1925-26.
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| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Hillquit, Morris: 1927.
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Includes correspondence, internal conflict cases;
International. Union Bank.
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| Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Hillquit, Morris: 1928.
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| Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Hochman, Julius: Nov. 1923-Sept. 1926.
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Correspondence on his activities as organizer in Boston,
Montreal, Toronto.
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| Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Hochman, Julius: Nov. 1926-Sept. 1928.
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Continued, Boston activities.
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| Box 3 | Folder 16 |
International Association of Machinists: 1925-27.
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Includes correspondence on Communist activities in trade
unions, financial loans to Union, 1927.
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| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
International Clothing Workers Federation, Amsterdam:
1923-April 1925.
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Includes correspondence with E. Kupers (Secretary) re
financial aid to German Workers Federation, 1923; strike by Swiss Clothing and
Leather Workers Union, 1924? affiliation of Hat and Cap Makers Union, Furriers
Union with Clothing Workers Federation, 1925; report and minutes.
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| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
International Clothing Workers Federation: April-Dec.
1925.
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Continued correspondence with E. Kupers.
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| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
International Clothing Workers Federation: 1926
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Includes correspondence with T. van der Heeg (Secretary)
on N.Y. Cloakmakers striker minutes of meeting between Russian Clothing Workers
Union and Clothing Workers Federation, Sept.
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| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
International Clothing Workers Federation: 1922,
1925-26.
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Bulletins, Includes pub., Red Labor Union International,
1922.
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| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Jewish Consumptive Relief Association: 1923
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Correspondence with Henry M. Silverberg re funds for
sanatorium.
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| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Local 3, New York; 1923-28.
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Correspondence with Samuel Lefkovitz, D. Rubin.
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| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Local 8, Calif: 1923-28.
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Correspondence with Max Gorenstein, Harry Greenberg,
Abraham Plotkin and Charles M. Schwartzberg on Local activities in San
Francisco.
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| Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Local 20, N.Y.: 1923.
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Investigations; charges brought against Local Manager
Louis Wexler; Boston Joint Board Cloak and Skirt Makers vs Morris Shapiro.
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| Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Local 64, N.Y.: 1923-27.
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| Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Local 80, Italian Branch of Cloak, Suit and Dressmakers
Union, Boston: 1927.
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| Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Local Unions, Internal Conflict with Union: 1925
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Includes correspondence with Local 22 and Empire City
Safe Deposit Co., on Local's withdrawing securities, June; letter to John Lahey
Chief Inspector), Police Department on suspension of officers from Locals 2, 9
and 22, August; peace plan between Union and Joint Action Committee of Cloak
and Dressmakers, Sept.
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| Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Local Unions, Internal Conflict with Union; 1927
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Includes General Executive Board resolution suspending
Locals 2, 9, 22 and 35; replies from Locals; Union release on N.Y. Cloakmakers
Union situation.
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| Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Needle Trade Union, Warsaw, Poland: 1924-28.
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Includes letter supporting N.Y. Cloakmakers strike
(1926); requests from Union for financial assistance, 1928.
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| Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Needle Trades Workers' Union of the USSR: 1923-27.
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Includes greetings between Union and Needle Trades
Workers; invitations to attend All-Russian Congress; General Executive Board
reply, Jan. 1927
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| Box 4 | Folder 15 |
New York Cloak Industry: 1924.
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Includes list of manufacturers in contractual relation
with Union, Sept.
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New York Cloakmakers' Strike.
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| Box 4 | Folder 16 |
1924 (July 8-Aug. 11)
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Includes Union statement, release, memorandum,
resolution on controversy, Sigman letters on condition in industry.
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| Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Cloakmakers, Imprisoned. 1926, Jan-Feb. 1927.
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Correspondence with imprisoned Cloakmakers and
statements from prisoners denouncing left faction of Union for betraying
workers.
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| Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Cloakmakers, Imprisoned. 1926, March-Dec. 1927.
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(Continued from above.)
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| Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Cloakmakers, Imprisoned. 1926.
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Includes correspondence with attorneys for prisoners
and relatives; William Green appeal to Governor Alfred E. Smith to commute
sentences; letters from Sigman to Board of Parole and Judge Otto A. Rosalsky on
the release of prisoners; list of contributors to Defense Fund; statement by
released prisoners, Samuel Grossman and Harry Friedman denouncing Sigman and
Union in Freiheit, Nov. 1927.
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| Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Committees. 1926.
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Letters from Union members on striking members;
correspondence with committees.
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| Box 5 | Folder 1a |
Committee of One Hundred for Defense of Imprisoned
Needle Trade Workers. 1926-1927.
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Includes correspondence with Forest Bailey, Arthur
Garfield Hayes, John Haynes Holmes, Harry F. Ward, Norman Thomas on aims and
purposes of Committee and members of American Civil Liberties Union who joined
Committee; list of individuals and organizations comprising committee.
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| Box 5 | Folder 1b |
Congratulatory messages on settlement of strike.
1926.
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| Box 5 | Folder 1c |
Contributions. N.Y. Cloakmakers Strike; 1926.
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Requests for financial aid for striking Cloakmakers.
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| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Contributions. N.Y. Cloakmakers Strike: 1926.
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| Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Contributions. N.Y. Cloakmakers Strike: 1926.
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| Box 5 | Folder 4 |
A. Johannsen (Director), Chicago Strike Relief
Committee. 1926
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Includes correspondence with Abraham Baroff on his
activities in Chicago in aiding N.Y. striking Cloakmakers.
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| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Alfred E. Smith (Governor). 1926.
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Smith proposal to end strike and Sigman's reply,
August.
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| Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Miscellaneous items.1926.
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Includes history of strike (Dec.1926); General
Executive Board order issued on N.Y. Cloakmakers Union, Dec.1926; resolution at
Cloakmakers meeting. June 29, authorizing Joint Board and Union to call general
strike.
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| Box 5 | Folder 7 |
N.Y. State Federation of Labor: 1923. 1925, 1927.
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| Box 5 | Folder 8 |
Ninfo, Salvatore: 1923-28.
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Includes resignation letter as trustee of special strike
fund of Cloak and Dress Joint Board (n.d.).
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| Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Reisberg, Elias: 1923-28.
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Organizing report, Local 50, (Waist and Dress Industry),
Philadelphia, Pa., 1927; pamphlets.
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| Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Shop Chairman Meetings (Yiddish): 1925.
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David Dubinsky (Chairman), 9-2-25. Nicholas Hourwich
(Chairman), 9-24-25.
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| Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Sigman, Morris: Nov. 1928.
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Resignation letter and related correspondence
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| Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Sigman, Morris: 1926-28.
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Personal.
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Speeches and Statements.
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| Box 5 | Folder 13 |
June-Aug, 1925.
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Union releases; includes publication, A Plan for Peace
in Our Union.
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| Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Sept. 1925-Aug. 1926.
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Includes peace agreement in Cloak and Dressmakers
Union, Sept. 1925; speeches at Locals 2, 9 and 22 executive board and managers
installations; speakers, Morris Sigman, Joseph Boruchowitz, Julius Portnoy,
Louis Hyman and Herman Grossman.
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| Box 5 | Folder 15 |
Aug.-Dec. 1926.
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| Box 5 | Folder 16 |
Tailors and Garment Workers Union and Ladies' Tailors
Trade Union, United, England: 1923-27.
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| Box 5 | Folder 17 |
Trade Union Educational League: Oct. 1923.
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letter from William Z. Foster, requesting conference
between Union and T.U.E.L.
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| Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Unemployment Insurance Fund, Cloak, Suit and Skirt
Industry of N.Y.: Oct. 1924-28.
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Correspondence with James A. Corcoran, Alfred Lyons,
Wholesale Dress Manufacturers Association; minutes and reports of meetings.
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| Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Unemployment Insurance Fund, Cloak, Suit and Skirt
Industry of N.Y.: 1924-27.
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Minutes and reports.
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| Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Union Health Center: 1927.
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| Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Union Labor Life Insurance Company: 1927-28.
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Publication Manual, of Group Life Insurance, Birth and
Development of the Union Labor Life Insurance Co.; addresses by Matthew Woll
and Carville D. Benson, 1927.
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| Box 6 | Folder 5 |
United Garment Workers of America: 1924-26.
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| Box 6 | Folder 6 |
United Mine Workers of America: 1924-25.
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Includes correspondence re Union loan, 1924, striking
mine workers in District 17 and Union aid.
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| Box 6 | Folder 7 |
United Mine Workers of America: 1926-28.
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Includes correspondence with John L. Lewis on striking
mine workers and Union support.
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| Box 6 | Folder 8 |
United Textile Workers of America: 1923-28.
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| Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Unity House: 1925-28.
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| Box 6 | Folder 10 |
WEVD, Debs Memorial Radio Station: 1927-28.
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| Box 6 | Folder 11 |
Wholesale Dress Manufacturers Association: 1923-28.
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The Women's Garment Workers by Louis
Levine.
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| Box 6 | Folder 12 |
Acknowledgments for sending book, 1925.
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| Box 6 | Folder 13 |
Acknowledgments.
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| Box 6 | Folder 14 |
Acknowledgments.
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| Box 6 | Folder 15 |
Acknowledgments.
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| Box 6 | Folder 16 |
Acknowledgments.
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| Box 6 | Folder 17 |
Acknowledgments and reviews.
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| Box 6 | Folder 18 |
Workers Education Bureau of ILGWU: 1923
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Sigman letter emphasizing the importance of the Workers
Education Bureau and the need for it to remain within the trade union movement.
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