ILGWU Union Health Center Records, 1910-1984
Collection Number: 5780/060
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
ILGWU Union Health Center Records, 1910-1984
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5780/060
Abstract:
Correspondence, annual reports, articles, financial statements, and other materials
documenting the evolving role of the ILGWU Union Health Center.
Creator:
Union Health Center
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Quanitities:
7 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English, Italian, 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.
In 1913, the New York City locals of the ILGWU established the Union Health Center
(UHC), under the direction of Dr. George Price of the Joint Board of Sanitary Control.
Initially, the UHC offered physical exams, medical treatments, access to a dental
clinic, and information about health and hygiene. For a period, the center operated
through a cooperative plan, with patients paying a fee and the union subsidizing the
rest of the cost of the visit. During the Depression, the cost of running the center
was met by other means. This included getting other local unions in New York City,
such as the electrical workers, metal workers, letter carriers, post office clerks,
and pocketbook workers, to affiliate with the UHC, as well as winning an official
endorsement from the Central Labor Union of New York. Beginning in the 1940s, New
York City manufacturers agreed to contribute to a fund that would cover the cost of
medical services provided to members at the UHC.
By the 1960s, the UHC offered comprehensive care to ILGWU members and their families,
and over the years, the center's range of services expanded to include social and
psychological services, eye exams, maternity care, and surgical consultation. The
Union Health Center continues its work today at 275 Seventh Avenue, in New York City.
The records of the Union Health Center document the evolving role of the center. Included
are general correspondence, meeting minutes of the UHC's medical board, annual reports
on the UHC's activities to the General Executive Board, triennial reports to delegates
at the ILGWU's international conventions, and related published materials. Much of
this material is routine or administrative in nature.
In both collections that comprise the records of the Union Health Center, there are
articles by such figures as George M. Price and Pauline Newman on union health centers
in general and the ILGWU Center in particular. The publications of the Union Health
Center primarily document the educational efforts of the center, providing information
about the center, its services, and its activities. Also included are pamphlets about
the ILGWU's health and welfare benefits program and publications from the Joint Board
of Sanitary Control.
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference
archivist for access to these materials.
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
ILGWU Union Health Center Records #5780/060. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 5780: ILGWU records 5780/171: ILGWU Union Health Center Publications
Names:
Newman, Pauline.
Price, George M. (George Moses), 1864-1942.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Union Health Center.
Subjects:
Clothing workers--Labor unions--New York (State)--New York.
Clothing workers--Health and hygiene--New York (State)--New York.
Clothing trade-- Employees--Medical care--New York (State)--New York.
Health promotion--New York (State)--New York.
Labor union members--Health and hygiene--New York (State)--New York.
Medical centers-- New York (State)--New York.
Medical centers--Administration.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
General Correspondence
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1927-1932 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
General Correspondence
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1933-1934 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
General Correspondence
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1935 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
General Correspondence
|
1936 |
Box 1 | Folder 5a |
General Correspondence [folder 1 of 2]
|
1937 |
Box 1 | Folder 5b |
General Correspondence [folder 2 of 2]
|
1937 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
General Correspondence
|
1938-1939 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
General Correspondence
|
1940-1942 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
General Correspondence
|
1943-1946 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
General Correspondence
|
1947 |
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
General Correspondence
|
1948 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
General Correspondence
|
1949-1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
General Correspondence
|
1951-1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
General Correspondence
|
1953-1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
General Correspondence
|
1955-1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
General Correspondence
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1958-1960 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
General Correspondence
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1961-1974 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Adopted Children, World War II
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1948-1952 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Articles by Pauline Newman
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1930-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Many are undated.
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Broadcasts
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1938 |
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Finances [folder 1 of 3]
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1945-1956 |
Scope and Contents
Budgets, fees, salaries for medical staff.
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Finances [folder 2 of 3]
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1945-1956 |
Scope and Contents
Budgets, fees, salaries for medical staff.
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Finances [folder 3 of 3]
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1945-1956 |
Scope and Contents
Budgets, fees, salaries for medical staff.
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Form letters
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1928-1935 |
Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Health Plans of Locals [folder 1 of 2]
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1930-1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Health Plans of Locals [folder 2 of 2]
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1930-1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
History of the Union Health Center.
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Minutes of Medical Board meetings, reports and memos
|
1931-1936 |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Minutes
|
1937-1939 |
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Minutes
|
1940-1943 |
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Minutes
|
1944-1946 |
Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Minutes
|
1947-1950 |
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Minutes
|
1951-1960 |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Minutes
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1961-1977 |
Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Newsletters
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1926-1951 |
Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Notes, personal memos.
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Office Employees' International Union, Local 153
|
1943-1946 |
Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Office Employees' International Union, Local 153
|
1947-1948 |
Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Office Employees' International Union, Local 153
|
1949-1951 |
Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Office Employees' International Union, Local 153
|
1952-1956 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Price, George
|
1942 |
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Programs
|
1930-1949 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Starr, Mark
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1936-1951 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
A Study of the Health Protection Afforded Members of the ILGWU, by Francis T. Dover
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1939 |
Scope and Contents
March 1939.
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Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Newspaper Clippings. [folder 1 of 3]
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Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Newspaper Clippings. [folder 2 of 3]
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Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Newspaper Clippings. [folder 3 of 3]
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Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Annual Report
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1911 |
Scope and Contents
Oct. 1911.
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Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Annual Report
|
1912 |
Scope and Contents
Dec. 1912.
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Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Annual Report
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1913 |
Scope and Contents
December 1913.
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Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Annual Report
|
1914 |
Scope and Contents
October 1914.
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Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Annual Report
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1915 |
Scope and Contents
October 1915.
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Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Annual Report
|
1916 |
Scope and Contents
October 1916.
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Box 5 | Folder 7 |
Annual Report
|
1917 |
Scope and Contents
Seventh Year Work and Progress, October 1917.
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Box 5 | Folder 8 |
Annual Report
|
1917 |
Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Annual Report
|
1921 |
Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Annual Report
|
1922 |
Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Annual Report
|
1923 |
Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Annual Report
|
1924 |
Box 5 | Folder 13 |
Report, Fifteenth Anniversary
|
1910-1925 |
Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Annual Report
|
1926 |
Box 5 | Folder 15 |
Annual Report
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1930 |
Scope and Contents
From Medical and Dental Departments.
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Report, 21st Anniversary of the Union Health Center
|
1934 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Report of the Director
|
1934 |
Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Report of the Director
|
1935 |
Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Report of the Director
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1936 |
Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Report to the 23rd Convention
|
1937 |
Scope and Contents
May 1937.
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Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Report to the 24th Convention.
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1913-1940 |
Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Annual Report
|
1940 |
Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Annual Report
|
1941 |
Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Annual Report
|
1942 |
Box 6 | Folder 10 |
Annual Report
|
1943 |
Box 6 | Folder 11 |
Triennial Report
|
1944-1946 |
Box 6 | Folder 12 |
Triennial Report
|
1947-1949 |
Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
|
1948-1949 |
Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
|
1950-1951 |
Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
|
1954 |
Box 7 | Folder 4 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
|
1955 |
Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
|
1956 |
Box 7 | Folder 6 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
|
1957 |
Box 7 | Folder 7 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
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1958 |
Box 7 | Folder 8 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
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1959 |
Box 7 | Folder 9 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
|
1960 |
Box 7 | Folder 10 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
|
1961-1962 |
Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
|
1963 |
Box 7 | Folder 12 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
|
1964 |
Box 7 | Folder 13 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
|
1965 |
Box 7 | Folder 14 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
|
1966 |
Box 7 | Folder 15 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
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1967 |
Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
|
1968 |
Box 8 | Folder 2 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
|
1969-1970 |
Box 8 | Folder 3 |
Report of the UHC Committee of the G.E.B.
|
1975 |
Box 8 | Folder 4 |
Report, UHC financial statement
|
1960 |
Box 8 | Folder 5 |
Report, UHC financial statement
|
1961 |
Box 8 | Folder 6 |
Report, UHC financial statement
|
1962 |
Box 8 | Folder 7 |
Report, UHC financial statement
|
1963 |
Box 8 | Folder 8 |
Report, UHC financial statement
|
1964 |
Box 9 | Folder 1 |
Report, UHC financial statement
|
1965 |
Box 9 | Folder 2 |
Report, UHC financial statement
|
1966 |
Box 9 | Folder 3 |
Report, UHC financial statement
|
1967 |
Box 9 | Folder 4 |
Report, UHC financial statement
|
1968 |
Box 9 | Folder 5 |
Report, UHC financial statement
|
1969 |
Box 10 | Folder 1 |
Report, monthly departmental activities of the UHC
|
1951-1960 |
Box 10 | Folder 2 |
Are Labor's Health Centers A Threat to Doctors?
|
1954 |
Scope and Contents
Reprint, Medical Economics, Inc. October 1954.
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Box 10 | Folder 3 |
Union Benefits, Medical and Other Benefits in Labor Organizations. By George M. Price
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1918 |
Scope and Contents
Presented to the ILGWU Convention May 1918.
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Box 10 | Folder 4 |
Bulletins. Joint Board of Sanitary Control in the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry,
no.1-4
|
1911 |
Box 10 | Folder 5 |
Bulletins. Joint Board of Sanitary Control, no.5-6
|
1912 |
Box 10 | Folder 6 |
Bulletins. Joint Board of Sanitary Control, no.7-10
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1913 |
Box 10 | Folder 7 |
Bulletin of the Joint Board of Sanitary Control.
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1914 |
Scope and Contents
May 1914.
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Box 10 | Folder 8 |
Manufacturers' Bulletin of the Joint Board of Sanitary Control.
|
1914 |
Scope and Contents
September 1914.
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Box 10 | Folder 9 |
Workers' Bulletin of the Joint Board of Sanitary Control
|
1914 |
Scope and Contents
vol. 1 no. 3, September 1914.
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Box 10 | Folder 10 |
Bulletins. Workers' Health Bulletin
|
1915 |
Scope and Contents
English, Yiddish, Italian
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Box 10 | Folder 11 |
Bulletins. Joint Board of Sanitary Control
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1915 |
Box 10 | Folder 12 |
Bulletins. Joint Board of Sanitary Control
|
1919-1920 |
Scope and Contents
vol. 1, no. 1, August 1919. vol. 1, no. 2, September 1919. vol. 1, no. 3, October
1919. vol. 2, no. 4, January 1920.
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Box 10 | Folder 13 |
Ceremonies and Inspection of Facilities Marking the Completion of the Expansion Program
|
1949 |
Scope and Contents
February 19, 1949.
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Box 10 | Folder 14 |
Cleveland Health Center.
|
1951 |
Scope and Contents
Official opening Nov. 17, 1951.
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Box 10 | Folder 15 |
The Union Dental Clinic
|
1918 |
Box 10 | Folder 16 |
Dental Department, 10th Anniversary
|
1917-1927 |
Scope and Contents
May 1917-27.
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Box 10 | Folder 17 |
Dental Department report
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1931 |
Scope and Contents
Includes pamphlet (n.d.).
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Box 10 | Folder 18 |
Department for Social Welfare, New York City. Report on Union Health Center
|
1935-1940 |
Box 10 | Folder 19 |
Education and Social Service Department
|
1935-1964 |
Scope and Contents
Reports.
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Box 10 | Folder 20 |
Fee Schedule, Union Health Center
|
1969 |
Box 11 | Folder 1 |
Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Union Health Center
|
1964 |
Scope and Contents
Programs, plans, lists.
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Box 11 | Folder 2 |
Fire Hazards in Factory Buildings
|
1915 |
Scope and Contents
December 1915.
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Box 11 | Folder 3 |
Fire Hazards in Factory Buildings
|
1923 |
Box 11 | Folder 4 |
Fire Protection. Manufacturers' Bulletin
|
1915 |
Scope and Contents
Issued by the Jt. Board. of Sanitary Control, March 1915.
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Box 11 | Folder 5 |
Four Hundred Prescriptions per Day Filled by A Labor Union", by Peter Kamitchis.
|
1949 |
Scope and Contents
Reprint from American Druggist, November 1949.
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Box 11 | Folder 6 |
Graphic Report of the Health Programs of ILGWU Locals
|
1940 |
Box 11 | Folder 7 |
Health Center News.
|
1926-1932 |
Box 11 | Folder 8 |
Health News
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1931 |
Scope and Contents
Published by the New York State Department of Health, July 1931.
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Box 11 | Folder 9 |
Health Services, dedicated to the delegates, Golden Jubilee Convention
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1950 |
Box 11 | Folder 10 |
History in the Making, by Max Meyer
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1948 |
Scope and Contents
Address before the Eighth Annual Congress on Industrial Health of the AMA.
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Box 11 | Folder 11 |
If I am not for Myself, Who will be for Me? By George M. Price
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1914 |
Scope and Contents
May 1914.
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Box 11 | Folder 13 |
Justice, reprints (re Union Health Center,)
|
1943-1946 |
Box 11 | Folder 14 |
Labor laws re women workers
|
1920-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Articles, unpublished, manuscripts.
|
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Box 11 | Folder 15 |
Laundry Minimum Wage Board
|
1937-1938 |
Box 11 | Folder 16 |
Local Health Plans
|
1951 |
Box 11 | Folder 17 |
Manual for the Medical Staff
|
1960 |
Box 11 | Folder 18 |
Medal for a Union, Fifty Years of the Union Health Center
|
1914-1964 |
Box 11 | Folder 19 |
Menu Fourth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Jt. Board. of Sanitary Control.
|
1914 |
Scope and Contents
Oct. 1914.
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Box 11 | Folder 20 |
Minutes (reports of), luncheon meetings
|
1969-1970 |
Box 11 | Folder 21 |
Miscellaneous documents.
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Box 11 | Folder 22 |
Miscellaneous documents.
|
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Box 11 | Folder 23 |
Newsletter, Bulletin for the Medical Staff
|
1950-1951 |
Box 12 | Folder 1 |
Price, George M., articles. [folder 1 of 4]
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Box 12 | Folder 2 |
Price, George M., articles. [folder 2 of 4]
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Box 12 | Folder 3 |
Price, George M., articles. [folder 3 of 4]
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Box 12 | Folder 4 |
Price, George M., articles. [folder 4 of 4]
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Box 12 | Folder 5 |
Price, George M., biographical material.
|
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Scope and Contents
Some correspondence. w. Leo Price.
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Box 12 | Folder 6 |
Price, Leo, articles.
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Box 12 | Folder 7 |
Questions and Answers, by Pauline Newman.
|
1940 |
Scope and Contents
Issued by the Education of the Union Health Center.
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Box 12 | Folder 8 |
Reports of the Union Health Center
|
1944-1945 |
Box 12 | Folder 9 |
Sanitary Conditions in the Shops of the Dress and Waist Industry.
|
1913 |
Scope and Contents
Report by the Joint Board of Sanitary; Control. May 1913.
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Box 12 | Folder 10 |
Sanitorium Association Report to the 14th Convention
|
1918 |
Box 12 | Folder 11 |
Seating and Posture. An inquiry made by the Jt. Board. of Sanitary Control into the
conditions in the women's garment trades.
|
1923 |
Box 12 | Folder 12 |
Security on the March. Health and welfare services of the ILGWU.
|
1954 |
Box 12 | Folder 13 |
Sick Benefits to Dressmakers' Union Local 22. Report on the medical administration
of.
|
1935 |
Box 12 | Folder 14 |
Sick Benefits. Recommendations for claimants. (n.d.)
|
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Box 12 | Folder 15 |
Survey of the Union Health Center, by Henry B. Makeover, M.D.
|
1952 |
Box 12 | Folder 16 |
A Survey of the Union Health Centers.
|
1958 |
Scope and Contents
Published by the American Medical Association.
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Box 12 | Folder 17 |
Union Health Center of the ILGWU.
|
1953 |
Scope and Contents
Reprint from Industrial Medicine and Surgery, Oct 1953
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Box 12 | Folder 18 |
The Union Health Center of the ILGWU. By Pauline Newman.
|
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Scope and Contents
6 pp.
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Box 12 | Folder 19 |
The Union Health Center of the ILGWU.
|
1954 |
Scope and Contents
Extract from Public Health Service publication no. 329, Management Health Medical
Programs.
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Box 12 | Folder 20 |
The Union Health Center. Health Department of Organized Labor, report.
|
1930 |
Box 13 | Folder 1 |
The Union Health Center. Health Department of Organized Labor, report
|
1913-1931 |
Box 13 | Folder 2 |
The Union Health Center. Health Department of Organized Labor, report
|
1913-1934 |
Box 13 | Folder 3 |
The Union Health Center, Its Growth and Success. By Pauline Newman. Industrial Bulletin
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1952 |
Scope and Contents
September 1952.
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Box 13 | Folder 4 |
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
|
1967 |
Scope and Contents
Attended by Pauline Newman.
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Box 13 | Folder 5 |
You and the Union Health Center. (n.d.)
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Box 13 | Folder 6 |
Your Union Health Center. Information Bulletin
|
1956 |
Box 13 | Folder 7 |
Nurses Guild. Audits, correspondence., minutes, rules, regulations.
|
1954-1968 |
Box 14 | Folder 1 |
21st Annual Report of the Union Health Center
|
1964 |
Box 14 | Folder 2 |
Annual Report of the Union Health Center
|
1984 |
Box 14 | Folder 3 |
Annual Report of the Union Health Center
|
1983 |
Box 14 | Folder 4 |
Interim Report of the Union Health Center
|
1944-1945 |
Box 14 | Folder 5 |
Report of the Union Health Center Committee of the General Executive Board
|
1946 |
Scope and Contents
June
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Box 14 | Folder 6 |
Union Health Center Board Meetings
|
1949 |
Scope and Contents
May 4, July 26, November 2
|
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Box 14 | Folder 7 |
Union Health Center Committee Reports
|
1951-1953 |
Box 14 | Folder 8 |
Union Health Center Committee Report
|
1970 |
Box 14 | Folder 9 |
Union Health Center Committee Report
|
1971 |
Box 14 | Folder 10 |
Union Health Center Committee Report
|
1972 |
Box 14 | Folder 11 |
Union Health Center Committee Report
|
1979 |
Box 14 | Folder 12 |
Union Health Center Budget
|
1949-1951 |
Box 14 | Folder 13 |
Union Health Center Formulary
|
1954 |
Box 14 | Folder 14 |
Union Health Center pamphlets
|
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Box 14 | Folder 15 |
Los Angeles Union Health Center
|
1954 |
Scope and Contents
Report of Organization and Operation
|