ILGWU Southeast Region Audio Recordings
Collection Number: 5780/058 AV
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
ILGWU Southeast Region Audio
Recordings, 1975-1979
Collection Number:
5780/058 AV
Creator:
International Ladies' Garment
Workers' Union (ILGWU)
Quantity:
1 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Audiovisual materials.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
This collection contains audio recordings of the Southeast
Region's conferences in 1978 and 1979, as well as audio recordings of speeches and
Union Label songs.
Language:
Collection material in English
The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was once one of the largest labor
unions in the United States founded in 1900 by local union delegates representing
about 2,000 members in cities in the northeastern United States. It was one of the
first U.S. Unions to have a membership consisting of mostly females, and it played a
key role in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s. The union is generally
referred to as the "ILGWU" or the "ILG". The ILGWU grew in geographical scope,
membership size, and political influence to become one of the most powerful forces
in American organized labor by mid-century. Representing workers in the women's
garment industry, the ILGWU worked to improve working and living conditions of its
members through collective bargaining agreements, training programs, health care
facilities, cooperative housing, educational opportunities, and other efforts. The
ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union in 1995 to form
the Union of Needle trades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). UNITE merged
with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) in 2004 to create a
new union known as UNITE HERE. The two unions that formed UNITE in 1995 represented
only 250,000 workers between them, down from the ILGWU's peak membership of 450,000
in 1969.
Established in 1937, the Southeast Region of the ILGWU covered eight states: Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and
Tennessee.
John S. Martin served as director from the regional department's founding until his
retirement in 1954. Elmer Kehrer succeeded him, holding the position until
resignation in 1964. Martin Morand was director from 1964 to 1969, and after
Morand's resignation, Nicholas Bonanno was appointed Director of the Southeast
Region. Bonnano was still director of the region, at the time of the ILGWU's merger
with ACTWU in 1995.
The collection consists of reel to reel audio recordings, mainly of the Southeast
Region Conference for various years, but there is also material on the union label
song, as well as director's speeches.
Names:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
-- Southeast Region.
Subjects:
Women's clothing industry -- United States.
Labor unions -- Clothing workers -- United
States.
Clothing workers -- United States.
Industrial relations -- United States.
Form and Genre Terms:
Audiovisual materials.
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 Southeast Region Audio Recordings #5780/058 AV. Kheel Center for
Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Item 1 | 1975 | |
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August 7, 1975 meeting, 215-229; marking on front: 9/6/74: reel #1, side #1
first session; 9/7/74: reel #2, side #2 morning session
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| Box 1 | Item 2 | 1975 | |
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August 7, 1975
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| Box 1 | Item 3 | 1975 | |
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1 7/8 speed
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| Box 1 | Item 4 | 1976 | |
| Box 1 | Item 5 | 1976 | |
| Box 1 | Item 6 | 1978 | |
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August 4, 1978; Dan Miller, President, Florida American Federation of Labor;
Evelyn Dubrow, V.P.; Lou Rolnick; Bob Cheponis; Q &A Lucie Roberts
(516), Shirley Cook (384); James Gutmann; Q & A Betty (523, New Bern,
N.C. Health (?), Adel Lacy; Fred Siems
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| Box 1 | Item 7 | 1978 | |
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August, 4, 1978; Singing; Berger; Busky (?); Berger; Bonanno; Dan Savage
(Alabama); Art Martin (North Carolina); Lennie Finkel (Florida); Mike Ruano
(?) (Florida); Mary Cameron (Tennessee); Joe Ferguson (South Carolina)
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| Box 1 | Item 8 | 1978 | |
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August, 5, 1978; 2nd Day, Atlanta Regency. Opening Singing, Approx. 44;
Bonanno (Introduction), 65; Chaikin, 370; Bonanno; Berger, 630, end Georgia
report, Benefit Fund; Bruce Barcan (?); Dorothy Armstrong, 576K; Eunice
Snyder, 467; Mildred Bennett, 480; Edna Smith, 308, Adel Lay, 555; Shuan
Ratcliff, 305C; 3, Rosalie Tucker, 581; 9, Shirley Jones, 363; 11 Betty
Davis, 576Q; Jane Rutledge (?), 408, 566; Emma King, 417; Aileen Brown,
515
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| Box 1 | Item 9 | 1978 | |
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Afternoon session. Nick Bonanno; Cecil Brandstetter, Attorney; Erving Gordon;
Nick Zeigler
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| Box 1 | Item 10 | 1978 | |
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Banquet
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| Box 1 | Item 11 | 1979 | |
| Box 1 | Item 12 | 1979 | |
| Box 1 | Item 13 | 1979 | |
| Box 2 | |||