ILGWU Sol Chaikin Audio-Visual Materials
Collection Number: 5780/083 AV
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
ILGWU Sol Chaikin Audio-Visual
Materials, 1975-1986
Collection Number:
5780/083 AV
Creator:
Chaikin, Sol ;
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU)
Quantity:
8.1 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Audio-visual materials.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
The Sol Chaikin papers document Chaikin's tenure as
president of the ILGWU from 1975 to 1986. Included in this collection are extensive
correspondence, memoranda, and notes by and to Chaikin from ILGWU officers, staff,
and members, politicians, and other labor leaders. Also included are transcripts of
Chaikin's speeches, delivered to audiences of local union members, ILGWU and other
international union conventions, United States Congress, international labor
organizations, and others.
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.
Sol Chaikin was born in New York City January 9th, 1918. He graduated from Townsend
Harris Hall High School in 1934. In 1940 he married Rosalind Bryon. Chaikin received
a LL.B Degree from Brooklyn Law School. He then became an Organizer for the ILGWU,
Local 178 in Fall River Massachusetts.
Chaikin held many union jobs through his lifetime.
1942-Business Agent, Local 281, Boston and Lowell, Massachusetts; 1943-U.S. Air
Force; 1946- Manager, Local 22, ILGWU, Springfield, Massachusetts and Manager,
Western Mass. District, Northeast Dept., ILGWU; 1955-Director, Lower Southwest
Region, ILGWU; 1959-Assistant Director, Northeast Dept., ILGWU; 1965-Vice President,
ILGWU; 1968-Chairman, American Trade Union Council for Histadrut; 1969-Associate
Trustee, Long Island Jewish Hillside Medical Center; 1973-General
Secretary-Treasurer, ILGWU; Vice-President, AFL-CIO Industrial Union Dept. Member,
Board of Directors, New York Urban Coalition; 1975-President, ILGWU; Vice-President,
AFL-CIO and Member, Executive Council Member, Governor's Task Force on Housing;
1976-Delegate to Democratic National Convention; Trade Union Council for Histadrut;
1977-Labor Representative, Belgrade Conference to Review Helsinki Accord on Human
Rights; Head of AFL-CIO Delegation to International Labor Summit, London; Received
Labor Human Rights Award, Jewish Labor Committee; 1978-Received Townsend Harris
Award; Member, U.S. Delegation to Attend Funeral of Prime Minister Golda Meir;
1979-Present At Signing of Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty at the White House;
1980-Member, U.S. Delegation to ILO Session in Geneva; Vice-Chair, N.Y. Convention
Center Operating Corp.; Member, Board of Trustees, Brandeis University; Honorary
Degrees from Rutgers University and City University of New York; Seconded the
Nomination of President Carter, Democratic National Convention; Published, A Labor
Viewpoint: Another Opinion; 1982-Head, AFL-CIO Fact-Finding Mission to South Africa;
Member, N.Y.S. Governor's Special Transit Advisory Panel; 1983-Hosted ZENSEN
Delegation from Japan for Discussions of Apparel and Textile Industries;
1986-Retired as President of the ILGWU.
Sol Chaikin died April 1, 1991 at the age of 73.
The Sol Chaikin papers document Chaikin's tenure as president of the ILGWU from 1975
to 1986. Included in this collection are extensive correspondence, memoranda, and
notes by and to Chaikin from ILGWU officers, staff, and members, politicians, and
other labor leaders. Also included are transcripts of Chaikin's speeches, delivered
to audiences of local union members, ILGWU and other international union
conventions, United States Congress, international labor organizations, and
others.
Names:
Chaikin, Sol C.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Southeast Region
Subjects:
Women's clothing industry--United States
Clothing workers--Labor unions--United States.
Clothing trade--United States.
Form and Genre Terms:
Audio-visual 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 Sol Chaikin Audio-Visual Materials #5780/083 AV. Kheel Center for
Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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| Box 1 | 1984 | ||
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Direct Presentation ; Questions and Answers
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Addressing GA AFL-CIO Convention
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Washington, DC ; Upper South Dept. Organizing Institute - AFL-CIO Labor
Studies Ctr.
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