ILGWU Research Department Collected Documents
Collection Number: 5780/056
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
ILGWU Research Department Collected
Documents, 1906-1948
Collection Number:
5780/056
Creator:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
(ILGWU)
Quantity:
6.8 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Administrative records, correspondence, financial reports,
minutes (administrative records) .
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives,
Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Much of the material concerns various strikes, including the New York
cloakmakers' strikes of 1926 and 1929, as well as the "Protocol of Peace" of 1910. There are
some additional items dealing with the New York Cloak Joint Board. A good portion of the
material is administrative in nature.
Language:
Collection material in English, Yiddish
The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was once one of the largest labor unions in
the United States founded in 1900 by local union delegates representing about 2,000 members in
cities in the northeastern United States. It was one of the first U.S. Unions to have a
membership consisting of mostly females, and it played a key role in the labor history of the
1920s and 1930s. The union is generally referred to as the "ILGWU" or the "ILG". The ILGWU grew
in geographical scope, membership size, and political influence to become one of the most
powerful forces in American organized labor by mid-century. Representing workers in the women's
garment industry, the ILGWU worked to improve working and living conditions of its members
through collective bargaining agreements, training programs, health care facilities, cooperative
housing, educational opportunities, and other efforts. The ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated
Clothing and Textile Workers Union in 1995 to form the Union of Needle trades, Industrial and
Textile Employees (UNITE). UNITE merged with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union
(HERE) in 2004 to create a new union known as UNITE HERE. The two unions that formed UNITE in
1995 represented only 250,000 workers between them, down from the ILGWU's peak membership of
450,000 in 1969.
Formed in 1937, the Research Department of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
(ILGWU) supported the administrative operations of the Union and coordinated the ILGWU's
investigative operations. It provided union leaders with information on wages, working
conditions, economic conditions, and other matters in the women's garment industry; analyzed
information for the union; and monitored developments in the industry.
In addition to providing research for union leadership, Research Department staff prepared
materials for Congressional testimony, presented cases on behalf of local unions to the War
Labor Board, and worked to administer the Fair Labor Standards Act. At times, the director of
the Research Department represented the ILGWU in national forums.
The Department also maintained an extensive library, collecting and housing documents from
Union administrative staff that were deemed substantive and of lasting value to the Union,
whether produced internally or externally. The information gathered by the Department was of
particular value during labor disputes and contract negotiations.
Lazare Teper was the founding director of the ILGWU's Research Department, working in that
position from 1937 to 1980. Born in Russia sometime between 1906 and 1908, Teper later studied
at the University of Paris and earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University. He died in New
York City in 1985.
The Research Department records reflect the department's varied functions, documenting its
role in gathering and analyzing information for international and local union leadership,
representing the union before government and labor organizations, and gathering materials of
research, and oftentimes historical, value. Some segments of the records focus on one aspect of
the department's work, and others include documentation across the department's functions.
Research Department director Lazare Teper's papers, for example, include files relating to the
Wage Stabilization Board (5780/105). The department also maintained records focused on the
National Coat and Suit Industry Board (statements of receipts and disbursements, label division
reports, meetings minutes, bulletins to members, and other reports and resolutions), as well as
some related legal files (5780/123). Also among the documents collected by the Research
Department are the New York Coat and Suit Industry Reports between 1934 and 1960. (5780/168)
Parts of the Research Department records consist primarily of collected documents from ILGWU
affiliates. In this way, they resemble and, in some instances, complement the parts of the
Archives Department Records (5780/121, 5780/121 PUBS), records generated by local unions (Series
III), and the general collection of ILGWU publications (5780 PUBS). Research Department records
of this kind contain records of predecessor unions to the ILGWU and ILGWU local union records
(5780/045), or the annual report, "Conditions in the Women's Clothing Industry" (5780/078).
Other parts of the Research Department records document all of the department's functions.
These records include financial and administrative reports, meeting minutes, and correspondence
(5780/056, 5780/209), collected printed material (5780/168), and ILGWU statements on issues
related to the garment industry (5780/209).
The Research Deparment collected documents included financial and administrative reports,
meeting minutes, correspondence, and other materials documenting the activities and interests of
the ILGWU Research Department. Much of the material concerns various strikes, including the New
York cloakmakers' strikes of 1926 and 1929, as well as the "Protocol of Peace" of 1910. There
are some additional items dealing with the New York Cloak Joint Board. A good portion of the
material is administrative in nature. Notable individuals represented in this collection
include: Louis Brandeis; August Claessens; Julius Henry Cohen; A. J. Muste; Benjamin
Schlesinger; Norman Thomas; Alexander Trachtenberg; and B.C. Vladeck. Organizations include
various joint boards of the union throughout the United States and the Workers Party of America.
Subjects include communism and the union; conventions of the ILGWU; labor negotiations; labor
disputes; strikes (particularly in New York City); unemployment insurance; and wages in the
garment industry.
Names:
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941.
Claessens, August, 1885-1954.
Cohen, Julius Henry, b. 1873.
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967.
Schlesinger, Benjamin, 1876-1932.
Trachtenberg, Alexander.
Vladeck, B.(Baruch Charney), 1886-1935.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Research Dept.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. New York Cloak
Joint Board.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Convention.
Workers Party of America.
Subjects:
Clothing workers--Labor unions--United States.
Communism--United States.
Unemployment insurance--United States.
Labor unions and communism--United States.
Labor union locals.
Strikes and lockouts--Clothing trade--New York (State)--New
York.
Strikes and lockouts--Clothing trade--United States.
Labor disputes--New York (State)--New York.
Labor disputes--United States.
Wages--Clothing workers--United States.
Form and Genre Terms:
Administrative records
Correspondence
Financial reports
Minutes (administrative records)
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 Research Department Collected Documents #5780/056. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections:
5780: ILGWU records
5780/045: ILGWU Research Department Records
5780/078: ILGWU Research Department Reports
5780/105: ILGWU Research Department Records
5780/123: ILGWU Research Department Records
5780/168: ILGWU Research Department Records
5780/209: ILGWU Research Department Records
5780: ILGWU records
5780/045: ILGWU Research Department Records
5780/078: ILGWU Research Department Reports
5780/105: ILGWU Research Department Records
5780/123: ILGWU Research Department Records
5780/168: ILGWU Research Department Records
5780/209: ILGWU Research Department Records
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1a | 1924-1926 | |
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Incl. conference communications from Industrial Council & from Trade Union Educational
League.
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| Box 1 | Folder 1b | 1921 | |
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Oct. 15, 1921. Report on Communist meeting re organizing in New York Joint Board.
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| Box 1 | Folder 1c | 1920-1929 | |
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Incl. "Statement on the Needle Trade Situation;" "Proposed Plan for a Shop Delegates System
of Organization for the ILGWU
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 | 1933 | |
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Draft resolution.
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 | 1917-1920 | |
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GEB report to special convention re Local 1 controversy; brief submitted to Appeal Comm. of
GEB re election of delegates by William Bloom & Harry Wagner.
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 | 1922-1925 | |
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Incl. declaration of principles by the Progressive delegates to the convention; list of
delegates.
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 | 1928 | |
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Joint statement by delegates of Locals & of Dressmakers Jt. Bds. of N.Y. & Chicago
re refusal of convention to seat delegates; Louis Hyman statement; list of delegates.
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 | 1929 | |
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Incl. convention call.
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 | 1937 | |
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Ballot for N.Y. vice presidents.
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 | 1912-1937 | |
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Reports by Morris Sigman (1912) and George Wishnak (1937).
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 | 1924 | |
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Reports, statements of Union, management and commission.
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 | 1926 | |
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Copies of correspondence. bet. Jt. Bd. & Governor's Office, memo to Industrial Council
of the Cloak, Suit & Skirt Mfrs., Inc.
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 | 1920-1922 | |
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Corres. bet. Ladies' Garment Mfrs. Assoc. & Jt. Bd.; 1921 strike calls.
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 | 1913-1923 | |
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Minutes.
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 | 1913-1923 | |
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Minutes.
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 | 1913 | |
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Oct. 7, 1913. Minutes of investigation committee.
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 | 1920-1923 | |
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Financial reports.
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 | 1907 | |
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Mar-June 1907. Financial contributions to strike fund; by-laws of Boston Cloak Mfrs.
Assoc.
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 | 1934-1939 | |
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Incl. NLRB case re Boston Maid, Inc.
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 | 1921 | |
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April 1921, Decision of Bd of Referees in Cloak, Suit & Skirt Industry.
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 | 1920 | |
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Memo concerning health & decency budget required for a wage earner's family in
Cleveland; incl. research material.
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 | 1930-1939 | |
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Incl. releases & telegrams.
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 | 1927 | |
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Memo to S. Hamburger (Union accountant) re costs of injunction against Union in 1924
strike.
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 | 1930 | |
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June 30, 1930. Injunction by Brooklyn Ladies' Garment Mfrs. Assoc. against Union and
Associations.
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 | 1924-1926 | |
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Corres. with International Union Bank re loans and investments.
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 | 1912-1942 | |
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Incl. Records re loans, bank book of Jt. Bd.
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 | 1919-1920 | |
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Financial reports; incl. statement of expenses for 1919 general strike.
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 | 1932-1935 | |
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Form ltrs.
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 | 1926 | |
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Dec. 13, 1926. Decision by Paul Abelson (impartial chairman).
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 | 1923-1930 | |
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Minutes.
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 | 1906-1933 | |
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Demands, list of mfrs., conference report (1933).
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 | 1924-1927 | |
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Notices of meetings, incl. some from left-wing.
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| Box 2 | Folder 4 | 1923-1924 | |
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Reports on investigation in the waist shops controlled by the Union (1923) & on
"Investigation of the Dress Industry" by Nathan Wolf (1924).
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 | 1920-1921 | |
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May 1920-Mar. 1921. Reports of American Association District.
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| Box 2 | Folder 6 | 1921 | |
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Mar. 18, 1921. Report of Brooklyn Office.
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 | 1920-1923 | |
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June 1920-July 1923. Reports of Independent Reefer Dept.
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 | 1919-1923 | |
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Dec. 1919-May 1923. Reports of Protective Division.
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| Box 2 | Folder 9 | 1920-1921 | |
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May 1920-May 1921. Reports of Skirt & Dress Dept.
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 | ||
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The Crisis and the Cloakmakers, statement by executive board.
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| Box 2 | Folder 11 | 1924-1929 | |
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Yiddish. Incl. list of General Strike Committees & resolutions.
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| Box 2 | Folder 12 | 1935-1936 | |
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Incl. report on Garment Industries Board of Trade, Inc. & memo to Nat'l. Coat & Suit
Recovery Bd. containing list of Associations having collective agreements with the Union.
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| Box 2 | Folder 13 | 1920 | |
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Incl. financial report & memo concerning increase in cost of living in Phila.
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| Box 2 | Folder 14 | 1920-1924 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 | 1923 | |
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Incl. hearings of Special Committee, appointed by Exec. Bd., re allegations by Pure and
Simple Trade Union League against administration (Feb. 5 & 9, 1923).
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| Box 2 | Folder 16 | 1923 | |
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Notification to members of hearings re membership in Trade Union Educational League (TUEL)
and Committee of Fifty (formerly Pure & Simple Trade Union League); minutes of hearing
(Nov. 10, 1923) & notes of meetings (Dec. 15 & 31, 1923).
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| Box 2 | Folder 17a | 1923 | |
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Yiddish. Statement by Samuel Zeldin & Isidor Steiner re GEB policy on TUEL membership?
statement by Local exec. bd. members.
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| Box 2 | Folder 17b | ||
| Box 2 | Folder 18 | 1932-1933 | |
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Org. comm. minutes (Feb. 2, 1933) ; Declaration of the Trade Union Center Group & United
Progressive League (Nov. 4, 1933); Open Letter re week-work to Local 9 from Local 1 (July 16,
1933).
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| Box 2 | Folder 19 | 1917-1928 | |
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Jurisdictional dispute bet. Locals 1 & 17; incl. report & recommendations of
Committee of Three (Benjamin Schlesinger, S. Koldovsky & Hyman Schoolman), appointed by
GEB (The Ladies Garment Worker, Dec. 1917); Gomper's telegrams (1924); "Why Local 17 Be
Reinstated" (sic) by Abraham Rosenberg (1928).
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| Box 2 | Folder 20 | ||
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Petitions of reefer makers for the re-establishment of Local 17.
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 | 1928 | |
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Special Investigation Comm.; "Reefer Makers Memorandum In Support of Resolution #105, of the
19th Convention of the I.L.G.W.U. held in Boston, Mass. May, 1928."
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| Box 3 | Folder 2 | 1928 | |
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Aug. 28, 1928. Special Investigation Comm. minutes.
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| Box 3 | Folder 3 | 1928 | |
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Sept. 4 & 20, 1928. Special Investigation Comm. report of hearings.
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 | 1928 | |
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Sept. 4 & 20, 1928. Special Investigation Comm. report of hearings.
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 | 1930 | |
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B. Charney Vladeck statement re Local 2 elections (Jewish Daily Forward, May 18, 1930); B.
Schlesinger ltr. re report of Special Committee investigation of Local 2 elections; copies of
ltrs. to Special Comm. re alleged election irregularities.
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 | 1931 | |
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Louis Hyman declaration (n.d.); Declaration of Principles of Trade Union Group of Local 9
(May 1931).
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| Box 3 | Folder 7 | 1914-1926 | |
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Nov. 1914-Dec. 1926. Ledger Book.
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| Box 3 | Folder 8 | 1933 | |
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Nov. 1933. Trial material against administration of Local; incl. exhibits consisting of
statements, broadsides, leaflets.
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| Box 3 | Folder 9 | 1922-1936 | |
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Conference Comm. meeting re reaffiliation of Locals 22 & 23 (Nov. 6, 1922); press
releases (1936).
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| Box 3 | Folder 10 | 1929 | |
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Report on investigation of Samuel Fremed (manager).
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| Box 3 | Folder 11 | 1921-1922 | |
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Financial records.
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| Box 3 | Folder 12 | 1939 | |
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Report of meeting (June 19, 1939).
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| Box 3 | Folder 13 | ||
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undated documents. Lists, including members of Trade Union Educational League.
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| Box 3 | Folder 14 | 1930 | |
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Strike. Incl. correspondence. re strike, lists, statements, press releases & newspaper
clippings.
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| Box 3 | Folder 15 | 1923 | |
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Resolution.
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| Box 3 | Folder 16 | 1922-1923 | |
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May 1922-Feb. 1923. Financial reports.
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| Box 3 | Folder 17 | 1919 | |
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Declaration of principles for Local health & welfare plan.
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| Box 3 | Folder 18 | 1912-1922 | |
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July 1921-Mar. 1922. Audit.
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| Box 3 | Folder 19 | 1938 | |
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"I Accuse" by Saul Metz.
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| Box 3 | Folder 20 | 1938 | |
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Charges against J. Katz, H. Aidenland, Hyman Libow, S. Rothman, Louis Farber, William Sporn,
A. Mallin, L. Klotz & L. Nickelsberg for illegal group activity incl. publication of Union
Vanguard.
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| Box 4 | Folder 1 | 1925 | |
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Audit, Joint Committee of Action (June 24-Nov. 3, 1925).
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| Box 4 | Folder 2 | 1925 | |
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Declaration of Executive Boards of Locals 2, 9, 22 (Sept. 23, 1925).
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| Box 4 | Folder 3 | 1925 | |
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Minutes, Jt. Comm. of Action; protest against suspension of locals? statements &
resolutions incl. Union pamphlet, The L Communist Plaque In Our Unions.
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| Box 4 | Folder 4 | 1925 | |
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Trial; charges brought by Israel Feinberg against members of Locals 2, 9, 22 w. lists of
accused; statement of Special Committee appointed by Joint Board.
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| Box 4 | Folder 5 | 1925 | |
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Trial; transcript of proceedings of trial (June 25-July 9, 1925).
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| Box 4 | Folder 6 | 1925 | |
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Trial; transcript of proceedings of trial (June 25-July 9, 1925).
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| Box 4 | Folder 7 | 1925 | |
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Trial; transcript of proceedings of trial (June 25-July 9, 1925).
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| Box 4 | Folder 8 | 1925 | |
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Trial; transcript of proceedings of trial (June 25-July 9, 1925).
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| Box 4 | Folder 9 | 1925 | |
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Trial; transcript of proceedings of trial (June 25-July 9, 1925).
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| Box 4 | Folder 10 | 1925 | |
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Trial; transcript of proceedings of trial (June 25-July 9, 1925).
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| Box 5 | Folder 1 | 1925 | |
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Trial; transcript of proceedings of trial (June 25-July 9, 1925).
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| Box 5 | Folder 2 | 1925 | |
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Trial; transcript of proceedings of trial (June 25-July 9, 1925).
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| Box 5 | Folder 3 | 1925 | |
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Trial; transcript of proceedings of trial (June 25-July 9, 1925).
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| Box 5 | Folder 4 | 1925 | |
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Trial; transcript of proceedings of trial (June 25-July 9, 1925).
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| Box 5 | Folder 5 | 1925 | |
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Trial; transcript of proceedings of trial (June 25-July 9, 1925).
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| Box 5 | Folder 6 | 1925 | |
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Trial; transcript of proceedings of trial (June 25-July 9, 1925).
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| Box 5 | Folder 7 | 1925 | |
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Trial; transcript of proceedings of trial (June 25-July 9, 1925).
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| Box 5 | Folder 8 | 1925 | |
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Trial; transcript of proceedings of trial (June 25-July 9, 1925).
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| Box 6 | Folder 1 | 1927 | |
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Suit re loan by Julius Portnoy, Joseph Boruchowitz, Abe Zirlin (plaintiffs) against
International Union Bank and Frederick F. Umhey (defendants) (February 15, 1927).
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| Box 6 | Folder 2 | 1927 | |
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Incl. GEB resolution suspending Locals 2, 9, 22; resolution of mass meeting, condemning
Pres. Sigman.
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| Box 6 | Folder 3 | 1946 | |
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Descriptions of documentary material on right-left struggles in ILGWU; incl. handwritten
copies of statements & news releases of 1926 Cloakmakers Strike (94 pp); "Internal
Conflict Within the ILGWU" (11 pp).
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| Box 6 | Folder 4 | 1946 | |
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Descriptions of documentary material on right-left struggles in ILGWU; incl. handwritten
copies of statements & news releases of 1926 Cloakmakers Strike (94 pp); "Internal
Conflict Within the ILGWU" (11 pp).
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| Box 6 | Folder 5 | 1925 | |
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"Labor Injunctions," part II (pp. 79-237) and notes (pp. 21-85).
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| Box 6 | Folder 6 | 1925 | |
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"Labor Injunctions," part II (pp. 79-237) and notes (pp. 21-85).
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| Box 6 | Folder 7 | 1926 | |
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"Contempt" (pp. 46-121) and notes (pp. 1-24).
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| Box 6 | Folder 8 | ||
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"Jewish Unionism, Its Birth Pangs & Contribution to the General American Labor Movement"
(42 pp).
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| Box 6 | Folder 9 | 1919-1922 | |
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The Cloak Strike Day By Day, A Chronological History of the Recent Conflict in the Cloak and
Suit Industry.
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| Box 6 | Folder 10 | ||
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"Communist Activities in the American Trade Union Movement," no author, no date; material on
Communist movement, the TUEL, gleaned from various sources incl. American Labor Year Book
(1923-24) & newspapers.
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| Box 6 | Folder 11 | 1928 | |
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The Rise and Fall of Communism in the ILGWU, no author (12 pp).
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| Box 6 | Folder 12 | 1928-1929 | |
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Dec. 28, 1928-Jan. 1, 1929. National convention reports.
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| Box 6 | Folder 13 | 1930 | |
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National convention reports.
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| Box 6 | Folder 14 | ||
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Misc. printed matter.
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| Box 7 | Folder 1 | 1924 | |
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Reports of meetings of General Strike Committee.
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| Box 7 | Folder 2 | 1926 | |
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Corres. & complaints by mfrs. & disposition of pending complaints by Organization
Committee.
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| Box 7 | Folder 3 | 1926 | |
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Ltrs. from August Claessens, Charles Solomon, A.J. Muste, & Norman Thomas re speaking
engagements.
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| Box 7 | Folder 4 | 1926 | |
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Exec. bd. lists.
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| Box 7 | Folder 5 | 1926 | |
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Lists of shops, Union and non-Union; also list of shops controlled by deposed Joint
Board.
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| Box 7 | Folder 6 | 1926 | |
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Minutes of General Strike Committee & . Provisional Strike Committee.
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| Box 7 | Folder 7 | 1926 | |
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Minutes of Joint Board meetings.
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| Box 7 | Folder 8 | 1926 | |
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Press releases by Jt. Bd.
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| Box 7 | Folder 9 | 1926 | |
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General Strike Comm. reports & statements.
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| Box 7 | Folder 10 | 1926 | |
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"Outline of developments during the strike" (weekly newsletter).
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| Box 7 | Folder 11 | 1926 | |
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Statements by Morris Sigman.
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| Box 7 | Folder 12 | 1926 | |
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Statements appearing in Freiheit & other papers.
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| Box 7 | Folder 13 | 1926 | |
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Incl. history of Strike; GEB order on N.Y. Cloakmakers' Union; "Pacts About the Cloak
Strike;" & appeal by W. Green for contributions to strike (Oct. 18, 1926).
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| Box 7 | Folder 14 | 1926 | |
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Incl. GEB statement to membership & statement of facts submitted to GEB.
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| Box 7 | Folder 15 | 1929 | |
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Incl. copy of ltr. from Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Mfrs., Inc. to Gov.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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| Box 8 | Folder 1 | 1929 | |
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Summary of provisions in new agreement; agreement bet. Youthmaid Cloak Co. & Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union; announcements re agreement from Industrial Council.
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| Box 8 | Folder 2 | 1929 | |
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Financial records.
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| Box 8 | Folder 3 | 1929 | |
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Lists of members of Industrial Council & Union cloak shops in all districts.
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| Box 8 | Folder 4 | 1929 | |
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Lists of shops.
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| Box 8 | Folder 5 | 1929 | |
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Lists of strike halls & committees.
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| Box 8 | Folder 6 | 1929 | |
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Picket Committee report.
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| Box 8 | Folder 7 | 1929 | |
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Ltrs. to The Day & other papers.
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| Box 8 | Folder 8 | 1929 | |
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Shop chairman resolutions.
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| Box 8 | Folder 9 | 1929 | |
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Strike call & GEB announcement of decision re strike & results of strike
referendum.
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| Box 8 | Folder 10 | 1932 | |
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Plans of Speakers & Entertainment Committees; lists of speakers and hall
assignments.
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| Box 8 | Folder 11 | 1930 | |
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Printed material issued by Speakers & Entertainment Committees; incl. Speaker's
Guide.
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| Box 8 | Folder 12 | 1932 | |
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"Memorandum of Understanding Reached in Conference Between the Affiliated Association and
the Union."
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| Box 8 | Folder 13 | 1932 | |
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"Facts About the Dress Strike."
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| Box 8 | Folder 14 | 1932 | |
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"Itemized Report of Distribution Committee of the Joint Food Relief Committee of the
Striking Dressmakers."
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| Box 8 | Folder 15 | 1932 | |
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Strike Committee appointments lists; printed material for speakers by Speakers
Committee.
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| Box 8 | Folder 16 | 1933 | |
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Incl. Speakers Comm. report.
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| Box 8 | Folder 17 | 1924-1925 | |
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Lists of shops, jobbers, designers, Industrial Council members, employees; "Report of
Investigation of Phila. Cloak Union."
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| Box 8 | Folder 18 | ||
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Union and non-union shops in the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, East New York and
out-of-town.
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| Box 9 | Folder 1 | 1909-1910 | |
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Ltr. re police & strikers from Miles M. Dawson (chief counsel), Ladies' Waist Makers'
Union; questions re police conduct.
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| Box 9 | Folder 2 | 1910 | |
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The Great Revolt. Order continuing preliminary injunction in case of Max H. Schwarcz against
ILGWU (Aug. 27, 1910).
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| Box 9 | Folder 3 | 1912-1914 | |
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I.c.w. Louis Brandeis & Julius Henry Cohen.
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| Box 9 | Folder 4 | 1915-1917 | |
| Box 9 | Folder 5 | 1913-1914 | |
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Incl. correspondence. bet. Boston Ladies' Garment Manufacturers Association & Boston
Dress and Waist Manufacturers Association; reports from Union office re complaints.
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| Box 9 | Folder 6 | 1913-1914 | |
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Minutes (April 26, 1913, June 4, 1914).
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| Box 9 | Folder 7 | 1916 | |
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Minutes of conference bet. M. & C. Skirt Co. & ILGWU at City Club (Aug. 21).
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| Box 9 | Folder 8 | 1915-1917 | |
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Report of Bd. of Arbitration (Sept. 24, 1915) & modification by Julian Mack (Aug. 21,
1917).
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| Box 9 | Folder 9 | 1916 | |
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Agreements bet. Children's Dress Mfrs. Assoc. & Locals 10, 50 & 58 (Mar. 4th).
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| Box 9 | Folder 10 | 1910 | |
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Draft of demands.
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| Box 9 | Folder 11 | 1915 | |
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Decisions of Bd. of Arbitration (Jan. 21, Feb. 5 & 6).
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| Box 9 | Folder 12 | 1913 | |
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"Memorandum of Points to be Presented to the Board of Arbitration re Wage Increase" (15
pp).
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| Box 9 | Folder 13 | 1913 | |
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Minutes of Bd. of Arbitration meeting of Assoc. & Union (Feb. 3-4, pp. 5-125).
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| Box 9 | Folder 14 | 1913 | |
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Statements by Louis Brandeis before Bd. of Arbitration.
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| Box 9 | Folder 15 | 1915 | |
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"Before the Council of Conciliation in the Cloak and Suit Industry. Statement in behalf of
the ILGWU and Jt. Bd. of Cloak and Skirtmakers Unions" (39 pp.), submitted by Morris Hillquit
(July 13); decision re preferential hiring and price settlements by Council.
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| Box 9 | Folder 16 | 1915 | |
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July 21, 1915. Council of Conciliation transcript (pp. 479-634).
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| Box 9 | Folder 17 | 1915 | |
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March 4, 1915. Bd. of Grievances minutes re A. Gershel & Co. & other matters.
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| Box 9 | Folder 18 | 1913 | |
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Dec. 19, 1913. Minutes of conferences bet. Union & mfrs. re apprentices in cutting trade
(47 pp).
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| Box 9 | Folder 19 | 1916 | |
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"A Statement from the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers Protective Association" (16 pp) re
"existing condition," in the industry; Morris Hillquit's remarks on impending lockout (April
26).
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| Box 9 | Folder 20 | 1917-1919 | |
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Incl. "Proposal by the Dress and Waistmakers Association for suggested changes in the
Agreement between Association, the ILGWU & its Locals" (1919); "Protocol of Peace Between
the Dress & Waist Manufacturers assoc. & the ILGWU" (Jan. 1917 -Jan. 1919).
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| Box 10 | Folder 1 | 1913 | |
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Complaints to Board of Arbitration by Dress and Waist Manufacturers Assoc. and Union.
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| Box 10 | Folder 2 | 1913 | |
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Oct. 1913. Bd. of Arbitration complaint, ILGWU vs. Dress & Waist Manufacturers assoc.
(draft).
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| Box 10 | Folder 3 | 1913 | |
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Bd. of Arbitration complaint, Dress & Waist Mfrs. Assoc. vs. ILGWU.
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| Box 10 | Folder 4 | 1916 | |
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Extracts of Bd. of Arbitration decisions (Mar. 19 & Apr. 12).
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| Box 10 | Folder 5 | 1913 | |
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Rulings and Recommendations of the Bd. of Arbitration in the matter of legal holidays.
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| Box 11 | Folder 1 | 1913-1924 | |
| Box 11 | Folder 2 | 1914 | |
| Box 11 | Folder 3 | 1914 | |
| Box 11 | Folder 4 | 1914-1915 | |
| Box 11 | Folder 5 | 1915 | |
| Box 11 | Folder 6 | 1915 | |
| Box 11 | Folder 7 | 1914 | |
| Box 12 | Folder 1 | 1914 | |
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Minutes of conferences of Bd. of Grievances.
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| Box 12 | Folder 2 | 1913 | |
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Test rates under the Protocol; ltr. from "Dress & Waist Mfrs. Assoc. to Bd. of
Grievances" (Aug. 5, 1913, 11 pp); "Charges made by Dress & Waist Mfrs. Assoc. in relation
to stoppages of work on May 1, 1913" (Oct. 6, 19 pp).
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| Box 12 | Folder 3 | 1912-1913 | |
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Minutes of meetings bet. Dress & Waist Mfrs. Assoc. & the ILGWU.
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| Box 12 | Folder 4 | 1913 | |
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Ltr. & memo from N.I. Stone, (wage Scale Bd.), of violations of Protocol since its
inception.
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| Box 12 | Folder 5 | 1914 | |
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Minutes of meeting of Wage Scale Board (July 8) with report & recommendation of N.I.
Stone.
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| Box 12 | Folder 6 | 1911-1923 | |
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Incl. reports, correspondence., "A Year of the Protocol" (The American Cloak and Suit
Review, Sept. 1911).
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| Box 12 | Folder 7 | 1916 | |
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Jan. 19, 1916. Minutes of meeting and decision of Bd. of Arbitration.
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| Box 12 | Folder 8 | 1915 | |
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Incl. list of employees in Union office; members of Executive Bd. Comm., Jt. Grievance Bd.
Comm., & Wage Scale Bd. Comm.
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| Box 12 | Folder 9 | ||
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Handwritten notes on the history of the Protocol.
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| Box 12 | Folder 10 | 1921 | |
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Corres. with other unions re cost of living and earnings.
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| Box 12 | Folder 11 | 1913-1921 | |
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Incl. studies on wages & hours among garment workers (1915-21).
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| Box 12 | Folder 12 | 1915-1920 | |
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Memoranda on earnings of workers in various segments of the Cloak Industry? wages for
week-workers in the Cloak and Suit Industry.
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| Box 12 | Folder 13 | 1921 | |
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Memorandum concerning wage rates of workers in the cloak and suit shops controlled by the
N.Y. Jt. Bd, of Cloakmakers; incl. reports by various departments of the Jt. Bd.
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| Box 12 | Folder 14 | 1920 | |
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Report on Cost-of-Living Investigation (35 pp); "Memorandum Concerning Increase in the
Cost-of-Living Jan-July 1920;" memorandum on cost-of-living increases in various areas of
NYC.
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| Box 13 | Folder 1 | 1919-1922 | |
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Statistical data & wage studies.
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| Box 13 | Folder 2 | 1919-1922 | |
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Statistical data & wage studies.
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| Box 13 | Folder 3 | 1920-1929 | |
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Leaflets & brochures relating to left-right struggle in garment industry.
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| Box 13 | Folder 4 | 1926-1927 | |
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Meetings.
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| Box 13 | Folder 5 | 1921 | |
| Box 13 | Folder 6 | 1920-1927 | |
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Incl. Regulation for Unemployment Insurance Fund set up in NYC (Feb. 25, 1925); memo to GEB
concerning unemployment insurance problems (Nov. 15, 1920).
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| Box 13 | Folder 7 | 1924 | |
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A Brief Survey prepared for ILGWU by Alfred L. Bernheim, Labor Bureau, Inc.
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| Box 13 | Folder 8 | 1920-1933 | |
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Reports & press releases.
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| Box 13 | Folder 9 | 1923-1935 | |
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Incl. reports (1923); "The Unity News" (Aug. & Sept. 1935)
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| Box 13 | Folder 10 | 1910-1948 | |
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Incl. chart of provisions in agreements (1910-22); no-strike, no-lockout clauses (1910-48);
handwritten demand for resignation of John Dyche & Abraham Rosenberg by Jt. Bd.; list of
individuals at Supreme Court (Mar. 21, 1916); minutes of Social Welfare Section, Women's City
Club (n.d).
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