ILGWU. Chicago Joint Board records
Collection Number: 5780/044
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
ILGWU. Chicago Joint Board records, 1914-1975
Collection Number:
5780/044
Creator:
Chicago Joint Board
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Quantity:
18.33 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, photographs.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Contains files on local unions throughout the Midwestern United States, as well as material on Joint Boards of Milwaukee,
St. Louis, and Kansas City. In addition to meeting minutes of several local unions in Chicago (59, 74, 76, 100, 208, 212,
261, 314, 381), this subseries includes minutes of meetings relating to the Chicago Health Center and union health and retirement
funds. General correspondence deals with organizing activities in the Midwest area. Subject files consist of correspondence
concerning intra-office, union, and local matters, minutes of the Joint Board, and publications either created or collected
by the Joint Board. Correspondents throughout both series include Morris Bialis, Abraham Plotkin, Harry Rufer and Harold Schwartz.
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 cloak industry in Chicago has a very long history, beginning with the organization of the Chicago Cloak Makers' Union
in 1889. In August 1914, The Cloak Operators' Local 44, the Cloak Cutters' Local 81, and the Cloak Pressers' Local 18 united
to form the Chicago Joint Board. Shortly thereafter, the new Joint Board achieved a collective agreement with the manufacturers'
association in 1915, and continued to increase organizing efforts and minimum wage scales. Work hours were reduced from 50
to 44 a week and by 1919, week work was instituted for the cloak industry. The dressmakers of the city formed Local 100 in
1915, won a collective agreement with a 40 hour week in 1919, and in 1920 joined the Chicago Joint Board. At the end of 1920,
disputes between the Chicago Joint Board and the Cloak Manufacturers' Association occurred, and in December 1921 there was
a five week strike which resulted in the abolishment of week-work abolished and return to the 48 hour work week. The dress
trade had an eighteen week general strike in 1924. Soon though, the Joint Board began to make gains, first with the introduction
of the 40 hour week in the cloak shops in 1928, and then the two week strike in August 1933 won a collective agreement and
35 hour week for the dressmakers.
Morris Bialis served as the manager for the Chicago Joint Board beginning in 1922, and Morris A. Goldstein served as his long
time secretary-treasurer. In December 1939, the Chicago cloakmakers', one of the oldest groups in the ILGWU, celebrated their
fiftieth anniversary, and the Chicago Joint Board celebrated 25 years. During the 1940s, the Joint Board consisted of five
locals, Locals 5 (Cloak Operators), 18 (Cloak and Dress Pressers), 59 (Cloak Finishers), 81 (Cloak and Dress Cutters), and
100 (Dressmakers), the encompassed the cloak and silk dress trades. In 1946, the Joint Board purchased a six story building
in the Loop to continue to be an instrumental player in labor and community affairs of Chicago.
The Chicago Health Center was opened in 1955, and in 1957, Bialis, who had also been appointed director of the Midwest Region
in 1934, was aided by assistant director Harold Schwartz. At the end of the 1950s and beginning of the 1960s, the numbers
of retirees increased the need for new workers to maintain payments of benefits in the face of a shrinking garment industry
in Chicago. As the Chicago market continued to decline through the 1960s and union membership decreased, by 1974, Local 18
and 59 merged with Local 5, Local 54 merged with Local 76, and Local 208 and 212 merged with Local 261. After 54 years of
service, Morris Bialis retired from his role as Joint Board manager in February 1976 (he had been elected an ILGWU vice-president
in 1928). Harold Schwartz became the new manager of the Joint Board, as well as Midwest Region director, and Lou Montenegro
named assistant director. In November 1978, Schwartz announced his retirement and assistant director Lou Montenegro was
elected to succeed him as the regional manager as well as the manager of the Chicago Joint Board. As Chicago saw a rise
in sweatshops during the 1980s, Montenegro led the Joint Board.
The records of the Chicago Joint Board are composed of two series: General Correspondence and Subject Files. These files not
only provide information on the garment industry in the city of Chicago, but the correspondence and documents also present
a picture of the smaller markets, such as rural Indiana and northern Michigan, including the small shops, manufacturers and
local workers. The correspondence is arranged by city, many of which are within the Midwest Region that encompassed Chicago
and the Joint Board. The records contain matters pertaining to shops in the smaller Midwest towns and include correspondence
from organizers regarding shops and strikes, organizing campaigns, and often times resistance from employers and employees.
Also well documented are the markets in bigger cities such as Decatur, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, and Peoria, and
the records of the Milwaukee Joint Board (Locals 188, 273, 292, 322 and 334). Resistance to organizing in the shops of the
small towns and rural areas is illustrated through union promotional material including flyers, leaflets, newsletters,
and booklets extolling the virtues of joining the union.
The second component of the collection consists of subject files. The records include very early reports and correspondence;
campaign to preserve Jane Addams Hull House; letters and photos from children "adopted" by the Joint Board that they financially
supported after the war; hearings and case decisions that were brought before an impartial tribunal over disputes and complaints
between the union, manufacturer associations (such as the Chicago Association of Dress Manufacturers), and individuals. Additionally,
various departments within the national ILGWU structure that the Chicago Joint Board and its locals had business with are
represented including the departments of auditing, research, political, management-engineering, education, and union label.
Notable individuals in the series include Morris Bialis, David Dubinsky, Morris A. Goldstein (secretary-treasurer of the Chicago
Joint Board), Frederick Umhey, Abraham Plotkin, Harold Schwartz (assistant director Midwest
Department,1959-1966), and Louis Stulberg.
Of particular importance are the minutes of the Joint Board, beginning with 1914 which is in Yiddish, as well as the minutes
of the various health and welfare funds, which also include reports agreements, and charters, by-laws. The subject files also
provide documentation on the locals that comprised the Joint Board. There are Chicago Locals publications including, "The
Needle," "Good News," which was published by the Educational Department of Locals 76 and 261, "Our Aim," the official organ
of Local 91, and "Our Voice," published by the Chicago Joint Board.
The collection offers an interesting location to find information on the history of the Chicago area and garment industry,
which are available in the reports submitted to "Justice." These provide summaries from Chicago and news from the Midwest
Department, including updates on Michigan and Indiana. The collection also provides a status for the Chicago cloak and dress
industry, as well as the Midwest, particularly useful through the reports submitted to the ILGWU General Executive Board.
There are also reports and correspondence from the Midwest Department, of which the Joint Board was a part of, but also see
Midwest Region Records 5780/101.
Locals represented in the records of the Chicago Joint Board include: 67 (Toledo, OH),90 (Elgin, IL), 120 (Decatur, IL), 133
(Peoria, IL), 187 (Racine, WI), 189 (Batavia, IL), 238 (Gary, IN), 240 (Aurora, IL), 272 (Gilman, IL), 277 (Indianapolis,
IN), 286 (Ishpeming, MI), 293 (Marquette and Negaunee), 317 (Bay City, MI), 328 (Kokomo, IN) 337 (Elkhart, IN), 354 (Alpena,
MI), 355 (Clinton, IA), 355 (Manistee, MI), 364 (Port Huron, MI), 380 (Shelbyville, IN), 382 (Lincoln, IL), 392 (Logansport,
IN), 441 (Kalamazoo, MI), 489 (Kendallville, IN), 508 (Mauston, WI).
Names:
Bialis, Morris.
Plotkin, Abraham.
Schwartz, Harold.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. -- Chicago Joint Board.
Subjects:
Women's clothing industry -- United States.
Labor unions -- United States -- Clothing workers.
Clothing workers -- United States.
Industrial relations -- United States.
Form and Genre Terms:
Correspondence.
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:
ILGWU. Chicago Joint Board records #5780/044. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University
Library.
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 | 1944-1945 | |
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Incl. corres. re Albion Mfg. Co.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 | 1937-1940 | |
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1937-Sept. 1940. I.c.w. and re. Alpena Garment Co., Inc.
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 | 1940-1944 | |
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Oct. 1940-44.
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 | 1939-1940 | |
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1939-June 1940, Incl. corres. & printed material re Ward- Stelson Garment Co.
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 | 1940-1944 | |
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July 1940-44.
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 | 1939-1944 | |
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Printed material.
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 | 1941 | |
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Incl. corres. & printed material re Pox River Valley Knitting Co.
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 | 1936 | |
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Incl. corres. re R. and M. Kaufman Co.
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 | 1937-1938 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 | 1939-1963 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 | 1941-1957 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 | 1937-1945 | |
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Incl. corres. & agreement re Wolverine Knitting Mills, Inc.
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 | 1936-1953 | |
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Corres. w. Philip Kramer of Boston Cloak, Suit and Dressmakers Jt. Bd.
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| Box 2 | Folder 4 | 1937-1938 | |
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Incl. corres. re Brazil Mfg. Co.
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 | 1938-1941 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 | 1944 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 | 1946-1947 | |
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Incl. corres. re Forest City Mfg. Co.
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 | 1940-1941 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 | 1936-1939 | |
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Incl. Cleveland Jt. Bd., corres. w. Abraham W. Katovsky, David Solomon, & H. D. Langer.
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 | 1940-1952 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | 1936-1937 | |
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Incl. corres. re Clinton Garment Co. (a subsidiary of Lee Garment Co. in Chicago, Ill.) & R. and M. Kaufman Co., hearing
before NLRB; correspondents incl. Selma Buck & Beatrice Schonberg.
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| Box 3 | Folder 2 | 1938 | |
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Incl. case of Nellie Howard & Louise Zimmerman, two employees discharged for union activities; i.c.w. A.E.Hubbard.
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| Box 3 | Folder 3 | 1939 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 | 1940-1941 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 | 1943-1945 | |
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Dec. 1943-45.
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 | 1938 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 | 1940 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 8 | 1934 | |
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Incl. corres re Decatur Garment Co.
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| Box 3 | Folder 9 | 1935-1936 | |
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1935 -Mar. 1936. I.c.w. Caroline Burke & re. A.F. Keating Co., Decatur Garment Co., Home Mfg. Co., & Osgood &
Sons Mfg. Co.
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| Box 4 | Folder 1 | 1936 | |
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April-Dec. 1936.
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| Box 4 | Folder 2 | 1937 | |
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Jan -Aug. 1937.
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| Box 4 | Folder 3 | 1937 | |
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Sept. -Dec. 1937.
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| Box 4 | Folder 4 | 1938 | |
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Jan-June 1938.
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| Box 4 | Folder 5 | 1938 | |
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July-Dec. 1938.
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| Box 4 | Folder 6 | 1940 | |
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Jan-April 1940. I.c.w. Margaret Walpole, Helen Duncan & Inez Bennett.
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| Box 4 | Folder 7 | 1940 | |
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May-June 1940.
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| Box 4 | Folder 8 | 1940 | |
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July-Dec. 1940. Incl. corres. re Home Mfg. Co.
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| Box 5 | Folder 1 | 1941 | |
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Jan -Aug. 1941.
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| Box 5 | Folder 2 | 1941 | |
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Sept-Dec. 1941.
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| Box 5 | Folder 3 | 1942-1944 | |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 | 1945 | |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 | 1946-1947 | |
| Box 5 | Folder 6 | 1950-1955 | |
| Box 5 | Folder 7 | 1956-1969 | |
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I.c.w. Margaret Songer.
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| Box 5 | Folder 8 | 1936-1940 | |
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Radio broadcasts, A. Plotkin & Harry Rufer.
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| Box 5 | Folder 9 | 1940 | |
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Printed material.
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| Box 6 | Folder 1 | 1936-1937 | |
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1936-Aug. 1937. Incl. Muskegon & Grand Rapids, Mich. I.c.w. Michael Rosen.
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| Box 6 | Folder 2 | 1937 | |
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Sept-Dec. 1937.
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| Box 6 | Folder 3 | 1938 | |
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Jan-June 1938. I.c.w. Joseph Zuckerman & cases re Amazon Knitting Mills, Globe Knitting Works, Muskegon Garment Co. &
Star Apron Mfg. Co.
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| Box 6 | Folder 4 | 1938 | |
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July-Dec. 1938.
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| Box 6 | Folder 5 | 1939-1940 | |
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Incl. corres. re Alpena Garment Co. & American Lady Corset Co.
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| Box 6 | Folder 6 | 1941 | |
| Box 6 | Folder 7 | 1943-1945 | |
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I.c.w. William E. Davis.
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| Box 6 | Folder 8 | 1949-1951 | |
| Box 6 | Folder 9 | 1954 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 1 | 1955-1956 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 2 | 1957-1962 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 3 | 1944-1945 | |
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Incl. corres. re Dubuque Garment Co., Inc., & hearings before the NLRB.
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| Box 7 | Folder 4 | 1936-1945 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 5 | 1936-1937 | |
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I.c.w. Mary Engel.
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| Box 7 | Folder 6 | 1938-1945 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 7 | 1945 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 8 | 1937-1944 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 9 | 1937-1944 | |
| Box 7 | Folder 10 | 1941-1945 | |
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1955. Incl. corres. re Nature's Rival Co.
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| Box 7 | Folder 11 | 1936-1941 | |
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Incl. corres. re Gary Garment Co. & w. Eleanore Hoagland.
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| Box 7 | Folder 12 | 1937-1940 | |
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I.c.w. Oliver Hartley re Western Dress Co.
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| Box 8 | Folder 1 | 1937 | |
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Incl. corres. re Modern Globe Co.
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| Box 8 | Folder 2 | 1938-1955 | |
| Box 8 | Folder 3 | 1937-1955 | |
| Box 8 | Folder 4 | 1937-1938 | |
| Box 8 | Folder 5 | 1936-1970 | |
| Box 8 | Folder 6 | 1936-1944 | |
| Box 8 | Folder 7 | 1936-1937 | |
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1936-May 1937. I.c.w. Alice Burster re Real Silk Hosiery Mills, Inc.
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| Box 8 | Folder 8 | 1937 | |
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June-Dec, 1937.
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| Box 8 | Folder 9 | 1938 | |
| Box 8 | Folder 10 | 1939-1940 | |
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1939-July 1940. Ind. corres. re Janalene, Inc.
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| Box 8 | Folder 11 | 1940 | |
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Aug-Dec, 1940.
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| Box 9 | Folder 1 | 1941-1943 | |
| Box 9 | Folder 2 | 1944-1945 | |
| Box 9 | Folder 3 | 1941-1944 | |
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1941, Jan-June 1944 I.c.w. Ruby M. Dingman.
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| Box 9 | Folder 4 | 1944-1945 | |
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July 1944-45.
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| Box 9 | Folder 5 | 1955-1966 | |
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I.c.w. Ruth Craine.
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| Box 9 | Folder 6 | 1937 | |
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Incl. corres. re Trenton Garment Co.
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| Box 9 | Folder 7 | 1936-1958 | |
| Box 9 | Folder 8 | 1935-1936 | |
| Box 9 | Folder 9 | 1945 | |
| Box 9 | Folder 10 | 1935 | |
| Box 10 | Folder 1 | 1936-1939 | |
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I.c.w. Irish Austin re Reliance Mfg. Co., Sterling Division.
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| Box 10 | Folder 2 | 1941 | |
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I.c.w. Alida Cunningham.
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| Box 10 | Folder 3 | 1942-1943 | |
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1942 -June 1943.
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| Box 10 | Folder 4 | 1943-1944 | |
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July 1943-June 1944.
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| Box 10 | Folder 5 | 1944-1945 | |
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July 1944-45.
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| Box 10 | Folder 6 | 1937 | |
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July-Sept, 1937. I.c.w. Alice Burster re Lacrosse Garment Co.
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| Box 10 | Folder 7 | 1937-1938 | |
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Oct, 1937-38.
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| Box 10 | Folder 8 | 1936-1938 | |
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LaSalle, Ill.
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| Box 10 | Folder 9 | 1937-1941 | |
| Box 10 | Folder 10 | 1944-1945 | |
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Corres. re Lincoln Allied Dress Co.
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| Box 11 | Folder 1 | 1939-1941 | |
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1939-Nov, 1941. Incl. corres. & strike material re H.W.Gossard Corset Co.
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| Box 11 | Folder 2 | 1941-1942 | |
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Dec, 1941-42.
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| Box 11 | Folder 3 | 1943-1944 | |
| Box 11 | Folder 4 | 1945-1957 | |
| Box 11 | Folder 5 | 1936-1955 | |
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(Incl. L.A. Cloak & Dress Jt. Bds.) Incl. Isidor Stenzor memorandum to D. Dubinsky & Special GEB Committee on L. A.
situation, Aug, 1955; publications. Shop News, 1941 & The Garmentator, 1944.
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| Box 11 | Folder 6 | 1950 | |
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(L.A. Cloak & Dress Jt. Bds.) Corres., reports & printed material from & re Special Committee of the GEB (Charles
S. Zimmerman, Morris Bialis & Meyer Perlstein) to correct the existing conditions (Communist situation) in the L.A. Cloak
& Dress organizations.
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| Box 11 | Folder 7 | 1956-1959 | |
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I.c.w. Isidor Stenzor & printed material from and re left- and rightwing groups of the affiliated locals in L.A.
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| Box 11 | Folder 8 | 1944 | |
| Box 11 | Folder 9 | 1951-1960 | |
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Incl. corres. re Marinette Knitting Mills.
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| Box 12 | Folder 1 | 1941-1944 | |
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I.c.w. David M. Abilew of U.P. Dress Mfg. Co.
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| Box 12 | Folder 2 | 1945-1955 | |
| Box 12 | Folder 3 | 1947-1953 | |
| Box 12 | Folder 4 | 1963-1971 | |
| Box 12 | Folder 5 | 1940-1941 | |
| Box 12 | Folder 6 | 1935-1940 | |
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I.c.w. Salvatore Ninfo & Benjamin Dolnick.
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| Box 12 | Folder 7 | 1941-1945 | |
| Box 12 | Folder 8 | 1948-1950 | |
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I.c.w. Harry P. Bovshow.
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| Box 12 | Folder 9 | 1951-1952 | |
| Box 12 | Folder 10 | 1953-1954 | |
| Box 12 | Folder 11 | 1955-1957 | |
| Box 13 | Folder 1 | 1958-1969 | |
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Corres. w. George Paris.
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| Box 13 | Folder 2 | 1967-1971 | |
| Box 13 | Folder 3 | 1936-1959 | |
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I.c.w. Michael Finkelstein , Twin Cities Jt. Bd.
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| Box 13 | Folder 4 | 1936-1937 | |
| Box 13 | Folder 5 | 1937 | |
| Box 13 | Folder 6 | 1938 | |
| Box 13 | Folder 7 | 1950-1958 | |
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Incl. corres. & agreement w. Norway Needlecraft Corp.
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| Box 13 | Folder 8 | 1933-1936 | |
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I.c.w. Geraldine (Jerry) Hill.
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| Box 13 | Folder 9 | 1937 | |
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Jan-May 1937. Incl. corres. re Betty Brown Co. & Chic Mfg. Co.
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| Box 13 | Folder 10 | 1937 | |
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June-Nov, 1937.
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| Box 13 | Folder 11 | 1938 | |
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Dec, 1937-Apr, 1938.
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| Box 14 | Folder 1 | 1938-1939 | |
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May 1938- 1939.
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| Box 14 | Folder 2 | 1940 | |
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Jan-May 1940.
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| Box 14 | Folder 3 | 1940 | |
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June-Dec, 1940.
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| Box 14 | Folder 4 | 1941 | |
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Jan-June 1941.
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| Box 14 | Folder 5 | 1941 | |
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July-Dec, 1941.
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| Box 14 | Folder 6 | 1944-1945 | |
| Box 14 | Folder 7 | 1940-1941 | |
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1940-Mar. l941. I.c.w. Ruby M. Dingman re Erd-Marshall Co.
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| Box 14 | Folder 8 | 1941-1951 | |
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Apr- Dec, 1941, 1950-51.
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| Box 14 | Folder 9 | 1948-1949 | |
| Box 15 | Folder 1 | 1934-1957 | |
| Box 15 | Folder 2 | 1933-1940 | |
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I.c.w. Meyer Perlstein.
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| Box 15 | Folder 3 | 1941-1945 | |
| Box 15 | Folder 4 | 1947-1953 | |
| Box 15 | Folder 5 | 1954-1957 | |
| Box 15 | Folder 6 | 1940-1945 | |
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Incl. corres. re Shelby Mfg. Co.
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| Box 15 | Folder 7 | 1936-1943 | |
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I.c.w. Blanche Cox & re Smoler Bros., Inc., Chicago, Ill.
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| Box 15 | Folder 8 | 1944-1951 | |
| Box 15 | Folder 9 | 1944-1945 | |
| Box 15 | Folder 10 | 1951-1956 | |
| Box 16 | Folder 1 | 1940-1949 | |
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1967. Incl. Toronto Jt. Bd.
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| Box 16 | Folder 2 | 1941-1945 | |
| Box 16 | Folder 3 | 1945-1962 | |
| Box 16 | Folder 4 | 1940-1944 | |
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Incl. corres. & agreement w. Marathon Rubber Products Co.
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| Box 16 | Folder 5 | ||
| Box 16 | Folder 6 | 1937-1938 | |
| Box 16 | Folder 7-9 | 1917-1947 | |
| Box 17 | Folder 1 | 1917-1923 | |
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Correspondents incl. Meyer Perlstein & Morris Sigman.
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| Box 17 | Folder 2 | 1924-1925 | |
| Box 17 | Folder 3 | 1926-1930 | |
| Box 17 | Folder 4 | 1918-1923 | |
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Incl. reports of business agents, complaint department, & committee and related documents.
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| Box 17 | Folder 5 | 1924-1926 | |
| Box 17 | Folder 6 | 1960-1965 | |
| Box 17 | Folder 7 | 1951-1959 | |
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War orphans, sponsored through the Jewish Labor Committee.
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| Box 17 | Folder 8 | 1944 | |
| Box 17 | Folder 9 | 1941 | |
| Box 17 | Folder 10 | 1951-1960 | |
| Box 17 | Folder 11 | 1936-1941 | |
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Corres. bet. these two on all facets of Union activities.
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| Box 17 | Folder 12 | 1942-1949 | |
| Box 17 | Folder 13 | 1950-1951 | |
| Box 17 | Folder 14 | 1952-1953 | |
| Box 18 | Folder 1 | 1948-1949 | |
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European trip.
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| Box 18 | Folder 2 | 1935-1944 | |
| Box 18 | Folder 3 | 1948-1949 | |
| Box 18 | Folder 4 | 1930-1957 | |
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Incl. Roth & Co. vs Chicago Jt. Bd., 1953; Federal Trade Commission vs Calif. Sportswear & Dress Assoc., et al.
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| Box 18 | Folder 5 | 1951-1956 | |
| Box 18 | Folder 6 | 1950-1957 | |
| Box 18 | Folder 7 | 1940 | |
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Acknowledgments, incl. Charles A. Beard.
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| Box 18 | Folder 8 | ||
| Box 18 | Folder 9 | 1937-1959 | |
| Box 18 | Folder 10 | 1955 | |
| Box 18 | Folder 11 | 1944 | |
| Box 18 | Folder 12 | 1954-1971 | |
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Finance Committee reports.
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| Box 18 | Folder 13 | 1947-1956 | |
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Corres. re Union activities.
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| Box 18 | Folder 14 | 1952-1954 | |
| Box 18 | Folder 15 | 1933-1937 | |
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1933-Aug, 1937. Corres. bet. Midwest Region & President's Office on all facets of Union activities.
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| Box 18 | Folder 16 | 1937-1940 | |
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Sept, 1937-40.
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| Box 19 | Folder 1 | 1941-1946 | |
| Box 19 | Folder 2 | 1950 | |
| Box 19 | Folder 3 | 1951-1953 | |
| Box 19 | Folder 4 | 1954-1955 | |
| Box 19 | Folder 5 | 1956-1960 | |
| Box 19 | Folder 6 | 1960-1963 | |
| Box 19 | Folder 7 | 1944 | |
| Box 19 | Folder 8 | 1961-1963 | |
| Box 19 | Folder 9 | 1947-1949 | |
| Box 19 | Folder 10 | 1943-1944 | |
| Box 20 | Folder 1 | 1951-1958 | |
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Reports submitted from Chicago proper & Midwest Dept.
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| Box 20 | Folder 2 | 1959-1964 | |
| Box 20 | Folder 3 | 1944-1947 | |
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(Secretary-Treasurer of Joint Board)
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| Box 20 | Folder 4 | 1923-1924 | |
| Box 20 | Folder 5 | 1943-1945 | |
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1951. Incl. case before the NLRB.
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| Box 20 | Folder 6 | 1941-1945 | |
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1951. Cont'd.
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| Box 20 | Folder 7 | 1956-1957 | |
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Reports on Union activities.
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| Box 20 | Folder 8 | 1935-1937 | |
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Cases and decisions.
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| Box 20 | Folder 9 | 1943-1944 | |
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Barrett Hodes (chairman).
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| Box 20 | Folder 10 | 1945 | |
| Box 21 | Folder 1 | 1946-1948 | |
| Box 21 | Folder 2 | 1950 | |
| Box 21 | Folder 3 | 1937-1964 | |
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I.c.w. Siemon L. Hamburger.
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| Box 21 | Folder 4 | 1953-1964 | |
| Box 21 | Folder 5 | 1944-1952 | |
| Box 21 | Folder 6 | 1936-1941 | |
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Corres. w. Mark Starr, forms, printed material.
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| Box 21 | Folder 7 | 1942-1949 | |
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Incl. corres., programs & printed material on ILGWU Institute at Madison University School for Workers.
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| Box 21 | Folder 8 | 1950-1951 | |
| Box 21 | Folder 9 | 1952-1955 | |
| Box 22 | Folder 1 | 1956-1957 | |
| Box 22 | Folder 2 | 1954-1955 | |
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1954-June 1955. M. Bialis reports to Justice on Midwest Area.
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| Box 22 | Folder 3 | 1955-1956 | |
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July 1955-56.
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| Box 22 | Folder 4 | 1957 | |
| Box 22 | Folder 5 | 1960-1963 | |
| Box 22 | Folder 6 | 1966-1970 | |
| Box 22 | Folder 7 | 1947-1954 | |
| Box 22 | Folder 8 | 1944-1947 | |
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Reports on firms & corres. w. William Gomberg.
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| Box 22 | Folder 9 | 1948-1955 | |
| Box 23 | Folder 1 | 1949-1954 | |
| Box 23 | Folder 3 | 1955-1961 | |
| Box 23 | Folder 3 | 1939-1941 | |
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Corres., reports re firms & negotiations.
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| Box 23 | Folder 4 | 1942-1955 | |
| Box 23 | Folder 5 | 1950-1954 | |
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I.c.w. Arthur A. Elder.
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| Box 23 | Folder 6 | 1955-1960 | |
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I.c.w. Jack Sessions.
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| Box 23 | Folder 7 | 1934-1947 | |
| Box 23 | Folder 8 | 1951-1955 | |
| Box 23 | Folder 9 | 1959-1967 | |
| Box 24 | Folder 1 | 1951-1954 | |
| Box 24 | Folder 2 | 1941-1951 | |
| Box 24 | Folder 3 | 1946-1955 | |
| Box 24 | Folder 4 | 1956-1964 | |
| Box 24 | Folder 5 | 1938-1945 | |
| Box 24 | Folder 6 | 1940 | |
| Box 24 | Folder 7 | 1938-1947 | |
| Box 24 | Folder 8 | 1937-1956 | |
| Box 24 | Folder 9 | 1934 | |
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Incl. minutes.
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| Box 24 | Folder 10 | 1936-1937 | |
| Box 24 | Folder 11 | 1930-1945 | |
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Local 76 & 261
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| Box 24 | Folder 12 | 1938-1940 | |
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Minutes & reports.
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| Box 25 | Folder 1 | 1941 | |
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Minutes & reports.
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| Box 25 | Folder 2 | 1944-1945 | |
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Minutes & reports.
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| Box 25 | Folder 3 | 1941-1957 | |
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Minutes.
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| Box 25 | Folder 4 | 1935-1940 | |
| Box 25 | Folder 5 | 1940-1944 | |
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Incl. materials of the Wage and Hour Div., U.S. Dept. of Labor on the Embroidery Industry.
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| Box 25 | Folder 6 | 1940 | |
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Report on the Embroidery Industry.
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| Box 25 | Folder 7 | 1935-1936 | |
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Minutes.
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| Box 25 | Folder 8 | 1938-1941 | |
| Box 25 | Folder 9 | 1938-1941 | |
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Minutes & reports.
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| Box 25 | Folder 10 | 1944-1945 | |
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Minutes & reports.
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| Box 26 | Folder 1 | 1942-1959 | |
| Box 26 | Folder 2 | 1937 | |
| Box 26 | Folder 3 | 1955-1971 | |
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(ILGWU Region Institute)
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| Box 26 | Folder 4 | ||
| Box 26 | Folder 5 | ||
| Box 26 | Folder 6 | ||
| Box 26 | Folder 7 | 1949-1950 | |
| Box 26 | Folder 8 | 1944-1955 | |
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Office matters; incl. reports from Lou Montenegro & Norbert Ciesil.
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| Box 26 | Folder 9 | 1956-1962 | |
| Box 26 | Folder 10 | 1954-1958 | |
| Box 26 | Folder 11 | 1960 | |
| Box 27 | 1915 | ||
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Sept, 1915. 2 vols. Julian W. Mack (chairman).
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| Box 28 | Folder 1 | 1914-1915 | |
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Aug, 1914-Feb, 1915. 1 vol.
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| Box 28 | Folder 2 | 1934 | |
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Mar. -April 1934.
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| Box 28 | Folder 3 | 1946-1947 | |
| Box 28 | Folder 4 | 1948-1949 | |
| Box 28 | Folder 5 | 1950-1951 | |
| Box 28 | Folder 6 | 1952-1953 | |
| Box 28 | Folder 7 | 1954-1955 | |
| Box 28 | Folder 8 | 1956-1958 | |
| Box 28 | Folder 9 | 1959-1961 | |
| Box 29 | Folder 1 | 1962-1965 | |
| Box 29 | Folder 2 | 1966-1969 | |
| Box 29 | Folder 3 | 1970-1971 | |
| Box 29 | Folder 4 | 1972-1974 | |
| Box 29 | Folder 5 | 1975 | |
| Box 29 | Folder 6 | 1950-1962 | |
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Incl. financial statements.
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| Box 29 | Folder 7 | 1946-1968 | |
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Incl. agreements and financial statements.
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| Box 29 | Folder 8 | 1952-1963 | |
| Box 29 | Folder 9 | 1951-1954 | |
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Incl. agreements & financial statements.
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| Box 30 | Folder 1 | 1955-1959 | |
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Incl. agreements & financial statements.
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| Box 30 | Folder 2 | 1947-1968 | |
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Incl. agreements & financial statements.
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| Box 30 | Folder 3 | 1950-1962 | |
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Incl. financial statements.
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| Box 30 | Folder 4 | 1950-1961 | |
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Incl. agreements & financial statements.
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| Box 30 | Folder 5 | 1953-1972 | |
| Box 30 | Folder 6 | 1954-1956 | |
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Incl. agreements & financial statements.
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| Box 30 | Folder 7 | 1957-1965 | |
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Incl. agreements & financial statements.
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| Box 30 | Folder 8 | 1946-1968 | |
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Incl. agreements.
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| Box 30 | Folder 9 | 1953-1960 | |
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Incl. agreements bet. Union affiliates & associations.
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| Box 30 | Folder 10 | 1948-1957 | |
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Incl. agreements & financial statements.
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| Box 31 | Folder 1 | 1932-1934 | |
| Box 31 | Folder 2 | 1935-1936 | |
| Box 31 | Folder 3 | 1937-1939 | |
| Box 31 | Folder 4 | 1940 | |
| Box 31 | Folder 5 | 1941 | |
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Jan-Sept, 1941.
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| Box 31 | Folder 6 | 1941-1943 | |
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Oct, 1941-43.
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| Box 31 | Folder 7 | 1944 | |
| Box 31 | Folder 8 | 1945 | |
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Jan. -Sept, 1945.
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| Box 31 | Folder 9 | 1945-1946 | |
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Oct, 1945-46.
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| Box 32 | Folder 1 | 1947-1949 | |
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1947-Apr, 1949.
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| Box 32 | Folder 2 | 1949-1951 | |
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May 1949-June 1951.
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| Box 32 | Folder 3 | 1951-1954 | |
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July 1951-54.
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| Box 32 | Folder 4 | 1955-1971 | |
| Box 32 | Folder 5 | 1953-1963 | |
| Box 32 | Folder 6 | 1944-1958 | |
| Box 32 | Folder 7 | 1937-1941 | |
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1948. Corres., printed material on elections & cases before NLRB.
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| Box 32 | Folder 8 | 1942-1944 | |
| Box 32 | Folder 9 | 1956-1958 | |
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Published by misc. Union locals, Chicago.
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| Box 32 | Folder 10 | 1943-1945 | |
| Box 33 | Folder 1 | 1937-1941 | |
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Incl. corres., elections, printed material & case before the NLRB.
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| Box 33 | Folder 2 | 1937-1941 | |
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Cont'd.
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| Box 33 | Folder 3 | 1937-1941 | |
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Cont'd.
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| Box 33 | Folder 4 | 1937-1941 | |
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Cont'd.
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| Box 33 | Folder 5 | 1936-1954 | |
| Box 33 | Folder 6 | 1955-1961 | |
| Box 33 | Folder 7 | 1924-1927 | |
| Box 33 | Folder 8 | 1942 | |
| Box 33 | Folder 9 | 1969 | |
| Box 33 | Folder 10 | ||
| Box 33 | Folder 11a-11b | 1940-1945 | |
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Personal.
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| Box 33 | Folder 12 | 1959-1960 | |
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Philip B. Oliver reports.
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| Box 34 | Folder 1 | 1940-1953 | |
| Box 34 | Folder 2 | 1956-1963 | |
| Box 34 | Folder 3 | 1963-1969 | |
| Box 34 | Folder 4 | 1935-1936 | |
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Sept, 1935-Aug, 1936. The Emancipator, Milwaukee. Wisc.
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| Box 34 | Folder 5 | 1936-1943 | |
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Sept, 1936-Sept, 1943. The Emancipator, Milwaukee, Wisc.
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| Box 34 | Folder 6 | 1942-1943 | |
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Good News.
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| Box 34 | Folder 7 | 1930-1939 | |
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Our Justice & Our Aim.
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| Box 34 | Folder 8 | 1935-1949 | |
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Our Voice.
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| Box 34 | Folder 9 | 1920 | |
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Miscellaneous.
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| Box 34 | Folder 10 | 1930-1940 | |
| Box 35 | Folder 1 | 1946 | |
| Box 35 | Folder 2 | 1941-1944 | |
| Box 35 | Folder 3 | 1948-1971 | |
| Box 35 | Folder 4 | 1940-1945 | |
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Personal.
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| Box 35 | Folder 5 | 1950-1953 | |
| Box 35 | Folder 6 | 1939-1944 | |
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Corres. w. Morris Bialis & Abraham Plotkin on negotiations & legal natters.
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| Box 35 | Folder 7 | 1945-1958 | |
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Incl. corres. re Union activities.
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| Box 35 | Folder 8 | 1959-1960 | |
| Box 35 | Folder 9 | 1961-1966 | |
| Box 36 | Folder 1 | 1939-1953 | |
| Box 36 | Folder 2 | 1942-1945 | |
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Corres. w. Union members in the armed forces.
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| Box 36 | Folder 3 | 1945-1955 | |
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I.c.w. John S. Martin re agreement at Cullman, Ala. (Holeproof Hosiery Co. ) .
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| Box 36 | Folder 4 | 1941-1944 | |
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Morris Bialis & other Union officers.
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| Box 36 | Folder 5 | 1945-1957 | |
| Box 36 | Folder 6 | 1937-1939 | |
| Box 36 | Folder 7 | 1956-1961 | |
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Corres. bet. Morris Bialis & Louis Stulberg on Union activities.
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| Box 36 | Folder 8 | 1962-1966 | |
| Box 36 | Folder 9 | 1967-1969 | |
| Box 37 | Folder 1 | 1970-1972 | |
| Box 37 | Folder 2 | 1973-1974 | |
| Box 37 | Folder 3 | 1938-1941 | |
| Box 37 | Folder 4 | 1940-1958 | |
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Bond drives.
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| Box 37 | Folder 5 | 1939 | |
| Box 37 | Folder 6 | 1940 | |
| Box 37 | Folder 7 | 1952 | |
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Showing.
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| Box 37 | Folder 8 | ||