ILGWU. Alan Howard Papers, [1970-1997.]
Collection Number: 5780/206
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
Cornell
University Library
Title:
ILGWU. Alan Howard papers, 1970-1997.
Collection Number:
5780/206
Creator:
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union; Howard, Alan.
Quantity:
6 linear feet
Forms of Material:
Records
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Country files include correspondence and notes, printed
material, and newspaper clippings on countries in which the ILGWU had a special
interest, especially the Dominican Republic and Honduras. Company files include
correspondence, memoranda, notes, and press material on companies with which the
ILGWU dealt; especially well-documented is the strike against and negotiations with
Leslie Fay. Subject files include correspondence with and collected printed material
on labor leaders and politicians, as well as on subjects relating to the garment
industry and trade.
Language:
Collection material in English
The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was founded in New York City in 1900
by mostly Socialist immigrant workers who sought to unite the various crafts in the
growing women's garment industry. The union soon reflected changes in the sector and
rapidly organized thousands of unskilled and semi-skilled women, mostly Jewish and
Italian young immigrants. Exemplifying the “new unionism,” the ILGWU led two of the
most widespread and best-known industrial strikes of the early Twentieth Century:
the shirtwaist makers’ strike of 1909 in New York City and the cloak makers’ strike
of 1910 in Chicago. The union also tried to adapt to the fragmented and unstable
nature of the industry. It adopted the “protocol of peace,” a system of industrial
relations that attempted to ensure stability and limit strikes and production
disruption by providing for an arbitration system to resolve disputes.
The ILGWU exemplified the European-style social unionism of its founding members.
They pursued bread and butter issues but provided educational opportunities,
benefits, and social programs to union members as well. In 1919, the ILGWU became
the first American union to negotiate an unemployment compensation fund that was
contributed to by its employers. The ILGWU also pioneered in the establishment of an
extremely progressive health care program for its members which included not only
regional Union Health Centers but also a resort for union workers, known as Unity
House. The Union also had an imaginative and pioneering Education Department which
not only trained workers in traditional union techniques, but provided courses in
citizenship and the English language.
David Dubinsky, an immigrant from Belarus who came to the US in 1911, provided strong
leadership that led to unprecedented growth in the union during his presidency from
1932 to 1966. He led the union through successful internal anti-communist struggles,
built on the ascendancy of industrial unionism by encouraging the formation of the
Committee for Industrial Organization, and helped the union become an important
political force in New York City and state politics, and in the national Democratic
Party and Liberal Party as well.
In the period following the Second World War, the union suffered a decline in
membership as manufacturers avoided unionization and took advantage of less
expensive labor by moving shops from the urban centers in the northeast to the
south, and later abroad. The ethnic and racial character of the ILGWU also changed
as European immigrants were supplanted by Asians, Latin Americans, African-
Americans, and immigrants from the Caribbean.
In July 1995 the ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
(ACTWU) at a joint convention, forming UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and
Textile Employees). At the time the new union had a membership of about 250,000 in
the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
Alan Howard was Assistant to the President of the ILGWU.
Country files include correspondence and notes, printed material, and newspaper
clippings on countries in which the ILGWU had a special interest, especially the
Dominican Republic and Honduras. Company files include correspondence, memoranda,
notes, and press material on companies with which the ILGWU dealt; especially
well-documented is the strike against and negotiations with Leslie Fay. Subject
files include correspondence with and collected printed material on labor leaders
and politicians, as well as on subjects relating to the garment industry and
trade.
Names:
International Ladies' Garment Workers'
Union.
Howard, Alan
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
--Archives
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
--Archives
Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile
Employees --Archives
Subjects:
Clothing workers--Labor unions--New York
(State)
Clothing trade--New York (State)
Form and Genre Terms:
Records.
Access Restrictions:
The ILGWU Records, except for publications and materials produced for
publication, are restricted. Materials created prior to twenty years from the
current date are open to researchers only with prior written permission from the
Director of the Kheel Center; materials created during the past twenty-years are
closed; the minutes of the General Executive Board are closed. For more
information contact the Kheel Center.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet
and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
ILGWU. Alan Howard papers. 5780/206. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
6000/029. UNITE. Alan Howard. Assistant to the President. Files
"Permanent deposit"
| Series I. Country files | |
| Series II. Company files | |
| Series III. Subject files | |
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Bangladesh/Pakistan
|
1995 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Caracus
|
1995 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Canada
|
1991-1993 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Chile
|
1994 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Costa Rica
|
1990-1997 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Cuba
|
1992-1995 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Dominican Republic: Bibong Apparel
|
1994 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Dominican Republic: Bibong Apparel
|
1994 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Dominican Republic: Bilateral Negotiations
|
1993 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Dominican Republic: Centro de Investigacion Para la Accion
Femenina (CIPAF)
|
1992-1993 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Dominican Republic: Centro de Investigacion Para la Accion
Femenina (CIPAF)
|
1995 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Dominican Republic: Clips from Confederacion Nacional de
Trabajadores Dominicanos (CNTD)
|
1988- 1992 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Dominican Republic: Confederacion Nacional de Trabajadores
Dominicanos (CNTD), Internal
|
1991- 1995 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Dominican Republic: Confederacion Nacional de Trabajadores
Dominicanos (CNTD)/Union de Trabajadores Latino-Americanos
(UTLA)
|
1992 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Dominican Republic: Confederacion Nacional de Trabajadores
Dominicanos (CNTD) Delegation
|
1994 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Dominican Republic: Data
|
1994-1995 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Dominican Republic: Federacion Nacional de Trabajadores de Zonas
Francas (FENATRAZONAS)
|
1992 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Dominican Republic: Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)
Review
|
1993 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Dominican Republic: Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)
Review
|
1993 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Dominican Republic: Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)
Review
|
1993 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Dominican Republic: Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)
Documents
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Dominican Republic: Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)
Documents
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Dominican Republic: Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)
Documents
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Dominican Republic: Gomez, Francisco Pena
|
1995 |
| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Dominican Republic: Han Chang Manufacture Textil
Dominica
|
1994-1995 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Dominican Republic: Servicio Judicial
|
1993 |
| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
El Salvador
|
1992-1995 |
| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
El Salvador: Maquilas
|
1995 |
| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
El Salvador: United States Trade Representative
|
1994-1995 |
| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Guatemala
|
1992-1995 |
| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Guatemala
|
1992-1995 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Guatemala: Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)
|
1994 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Guatemala: Guatemala Labor Education Project (GLEP)
|
1995 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Guatemala: Guatemala Labor Education Project (GLEP)
|
1995 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Haiti
|
1992-1993 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Haiti
|
1992-1993 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Haiti
|
1993-1995 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Haiti
|
1993-1995 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Honduras
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Honduras
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Honduras
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Honduras
|
1995 |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Honduras
|
1995 |
| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Honduras/Fesitradeh
|
1995 |
| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Honduras: Price Waterhouse
|
1993 |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Honduras: trip (Liz Claiborne)
|
1994 |
| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Honduras: United States Trade Representative
|
1994 |
| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
India
|
1994 |
| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Israel: National Committee for Labor Israel (David Dinkins
Tribute)
|
1995 |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Mexico
|
1992-1994 |
| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Mexico
|
1992-1995 |
| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Mexico
|
1992-1995 |
|
Clippings
|
|||
| Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Puerto Rico
|
1992-1993 |
| Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Puerto Rico: Section 936
|
1993 |
|
United States Tax Code
|
|||
| Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Saipan
|
1993-1995 |
| Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Taiwan
|
1994 |
| Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Thailand
|
1993 |
| Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Cynge Designs
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Dayton Hudson Corporation
|
1993 |
| Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Eddie Bauer
|
1995 |
| Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Esprit
|
1994 |
| Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Gitano
|
1994 |
| Box 2 | Folder 32 |
Kellwood
|
1995 |
| Box 2 | Folder 33 |
Koret
|
1994 |
| Box 2 | Folder 34 |
Kunja Knitting Mills
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Leslie Fay
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Leslie Fay
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Leslie Fay, current
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Leslie Fay,current
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Leslie Fay Congressional Hearing, June 7
|
1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Congressional Hearing on the Future of Leslie Fay and the
Domestic Apparel Industry
|
1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Congressional Hearing on the Future of Leslie Fay and the
Domestic Apparel Industry
|
1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Leslie Fay ( Hearing of the Subcommittee on Labor Management
Relations, July 21)
|
1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Leslie Fay, Guatemala
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Leslie Fay, Guatemala
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Leslie Fay, Honduras
|
1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
International Ladies Garment Workers' Union: Leslie
Fay
|
1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Leslie Fay, international overview
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Leslie Fay, leaflets
|
1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Leslie Fay, liquidated damages
|
1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Leslie Fay, Macy's
|
1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Leslie Fay, post-strike
|
1994-1995 |
| Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Leslie Fay, press coverage
|
1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Leslie Fay, reading material
|
1992-1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 20 |
Stakeholders Alliance Report
|
1994 |
|
Leslie Fay
|
|||
| Box 3 | Folder 21 |
Leslie Fay, visuals
|
1994 |
|
Photos
|
|||
| Box 3 | Folder 22 |
Leslie Fay, X
|
1994 |
|
Confidential
|
|||
| Box 3 | Folder 23 |
Maidenform
|
1992-1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 24 |
Phillips-Van Heusen
|
1993 |
| Box 3 | Folder 25 |
Phillips Van-Heusen
|
1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 26 |
Sara Lee
|
1992 |
| Box 3 | Folder 27 |
Warnaco
|
1992-1995 |
| Box 3 | Folder 28 |
Administrative (expenses, etc.)
|
1992-1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 29 |
Codes of Conduct, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
(ACTWU) Contract
|
1993 |
| Box 3 | Folder 30 |
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
(AFL-CIO) Executive Council
|
1993- 1995 |
| Box 3 | Folder 31 |
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
(AFL-CIO) International Organizing and Solidarity
Sub-Committee
|
1994-1995 |
| Box 3 | Folder 32 |
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
(AFL-CIO) International Organizing and Solidarity
Sub-Committee
|
1994-1995 |
| Box 3 | Folder 33 |
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
(AFL-CIO), miscellany
|
1993- 1994 |
|
statements, campaign updates
|
|||
| Box 3 | Folder 34 |
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
(AFL-CIO), politics
|
1995 |
| Box 3 | Folder 35 |
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
(AFL-CIO), trade
|
1995 |
| Box 3 | Folder 36 |
American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD)
|
1994 |
| Box 3 | Folder 37 |
American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD)
|
1995 |
| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), August
26
|
1994 |
| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), Dominican
Republic, January 5
|
1993 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Angelo, Alfred
|
1993-1997 |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
General Archives
|
1995 |
| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Brochure
|
1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI)
|
1995 |
| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Contracts
|
1993-1995 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Chavez, Cesar
|
1993 |
|
Memorial Celebration
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Child Labor
|
1970-1994 |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Clinton
|
1992 |
|
President-elect
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Clinton/International Ladies Garment Workers' Union
(ILGWU)
|
1992 |
| Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Clinton, news conferences
|
1992-1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Conference on the Future of the American Workplace
|
1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Conference on the Future of the American Workplace
|
1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 14 |
D'Amato, Alfonse (Senator)
|
1992 |
| Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Daily News/Chinatown
|
1992-1994 |
| Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Damon/Amerimex/Mexico
|
1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Damon/Amerimex/Mexico
|
1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Dinkins, David
|
1992-1993 |
|
Mayor of New York City
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Donahue, Tom
|
1992-1994 |
|
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
(AFL-CIO), Secretary-Treasurer
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Economy, taxes,etc.
|
1992-1994 |
| Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Education reform
|
|
|
No date
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Fair Trade Campaign
|
1992-1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 23 |
Federacao Internacional dos Trabalhadores do Textil, Vestuario,
Couro, Calcado/ Organizacan Regional Interamericana
(FITTVCC/ORI)
|
1992-1994 |
| Box 4 | Folder 24 |
Financial Records
|
1993-1996 |
| Box 4 | Folder 25 |
Firm Analysis Working Group
|
1992-1995 |
| Box 4 | Folder 26 |
Florida/Miscellaneous
|
1995 |
| Box 4 | Folder 27 |
Free Trade Zones (FTZ), Asia
|
1992 |
| Box 4 | Folder 28 |
Freedom House
|
1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 29 |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
|
1992-1994 |
| Box 4 | Folder 30 |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 4 | Folder 31 |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 4 | Folder 32 |
General Executive Board (GEB) Meetings
|
1992-1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 33 |
Hart Survey
|
1997 |
|
International Ladies Garment Workers' Union members
|
|||
| Box 4 | Folder 34 |
Howard, Alan to Mazur, Jay
|
1992-1993 |
|
Memos
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
In These Times
|
1994 |
| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Inside Edition
|
1993 |
| Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Industrial Strategy
|
1992-1994 |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Industrial Union Department, labor law reform
|
1992-1993 |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Industrial Union Department, labor law reform
|
1992-1993 |
| Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Industry data and analysis
|
1992-1994 |
| Box 5 | Folder 7 |
Inter-Church Center for Corporate Responsibility
(ICCR)
|
1993 |
| Box 5 | Folder 8 |
International Labor Organization
|
1993-1995 |
| Box 5 | Folder 9 |
International Labor Rights Education and Research
Fund
|
1994-1995 |
| Box 5 | Folder 10 |
International Organizing and Solidarity Committee
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 5 | Folder 11 |
International Organizing and Solidarity Committee
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 5 | Folder 12 |
International Organizing and Solidarity Committee
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 5 | Folder 13 |
International Strategy
|
1992-1994 |
| Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Jokes
|
1994 |
| Box 5 | Folder 15 |
Kantor, Mickey
|
1993-1994 |
|
United States Trade Representative
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 16 |
Kearney, Neil
|
1995 |
|
International Textile, Garment and Leather Worker's Federation (ITGLWF)
General Secretary
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 17 |
Kernaghan, Charles
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 5 | Folder 18 |
Kernaghan, Charles
|
1995 |
| Box 5 | Folder 19 |
Kirkland, Lane
|
1992-1995 |
|
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
(AFL-CIO), President
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 20 |
Kirkland, Lane
|
1992-1995 |
|
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
(AFL-CIO), President
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 21 |
Labor law reform
|
1992-1994 |
| Box 5 | Folder 22 |
Labor law reform
|
1992-1994 |
| Box 5 | Folder 23 |
Labor trends
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 5 | Folder 24 |
Layoffs
|
1992-1993 |
| Box 5 | Folder 25 |
Letters to editors
|
1994 |
| Box 5 | Folder 26 |
Magali. Pineda
|
1993 |
|
Centro de Investigacion para la Accion Femenina (CIPAF)
|
|||
| Box 5 | Folder 27 |
Mazur, Jay on North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA)
|
1993 |
| Box 5 | Folder 28 |
Miscellany
|
1993-1995 |
| Box 6 | Folder 1 |
National Labor Committee, Charles Kernaghan
|
1995 |
| Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Negotiations/Communications
|
1994 |
| Box 6 | Folder 3 |
New York, economic development
|
1992-1993 |
| Box 6 | Folder 4 |
New York City, industry development
|
1992-1995 |
| Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Report of the Administration on North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA)
|
1992 |
| Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
|
1994 |
| Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Political Contacts, base
|
1994 |
| Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Productivity Advisory Council
|
1993 |
| Box 6 | Folder 9 |
References
|
1993-1994 |
| Box 6 | Folder 10 |
Romney, Edgar
|
1993 |
| Box 6 | Folder 11 |
San Francisco
|
1994 |
| Box 6 | Folder 12 |
Starobin, Herman
|
1991-1995 |
| Box 6 | Folder 13 |
Starobin, Herman
|
1991-1995 |
| Box 6 | Folder 14 |
Trade
|
1992-1994 |
|
essays, speeches
|
|||
| Box 6 | Folder 15 |
Trade/strategy
|
1992-1995 |
| Box 6 | Folder 16 |
"Trade Game" poster
|
1993 |
| Box 6 | Folder 17 |
Triangle Fire Commemoration Speeches
|
1993-1995 |
|
Mazur, Jay
|
|||
| Box 6 | Folder 18 |
Tyler, Gus
|
1994 |
| Box 6 | Folder 19 |
United States Trade Representative
|
1992-1993 |
| Box 6 | Folder 20 |
Walmart
|
1992-1993 |
| Box 6 | Folder 21 |
Yale Political Forum
|
1993-1994 |