Rose Pesotta Audio-Visual Materials
Collection Number: 5928 AV
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
Rose Pesotta Audio-Visual
Materials,
Collection Number:
5928 AV
Creator:
Pesotta, Rose
Quantity:
2.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Audiovisual materials.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Rose Pesotta's video collection including Goodyear strikes,
parade footage, parties, and other miscellaneous union gatherings
Language:
Collection material in English
Born Rakhel Peisoty in Derazhnia, Ukraine in 1896 to grain merchants, Pesotta was
well educated and influenced by the Narodnaya Volya (People's Will), and eventually
adopted anarchist views.
Pesotta emigrated to New York City at the age of 17 (1913), and found employment in a
shirtwaist factory, she joined the ILGWU very soon after. The ILGWU was a union that
represented mostly Jewish and Latina female garment workers. She was elected to the
all male executive board of ILGWU Local 25 in 1920. Pesotta went to Brookwood Labor
College for two years in the 1920s.
In 1933 the union sent her to Los Angeles to organize the garment workers there. The
organizing of the Mexican immigrant garment workers lead to the Los Angeles Garment
workers Strike of 1933. As a result of this success, she was made vice-president of
the union in 1934.
In 1944, she resigned from the executive board of the union in protest of the fact
that, despite 85% of the union's memebership were women, she was the sole female
executive member.
Rose Pesotta died in 1965.
CHRONOLOGY
1896 Born in Derazhnya, Russia, November 20
1909-12 Attended Rosalia Davidoffs private girls' School
1913 Arrived in USA with her grandmother
1914 Joined Local 25, ILGWU
1914-24 Worked as a seamstress
1919 Theodore Kushnarev deported to Russia
Father dies in Derazhnya
1922 Attended Bryn Mawr summer school
Researched Sacco-Vanzetti case for Local 25
1924-26 Attended Brookwood Labor College
1926-33 Worked as a seamstress in NYC
1930 Attended Wisconsin summer school
1933 Organized in Los Angeles for ILGWU
1934 Elected Vice-President of ILGWU
Sent to Puerto Rico to organize seamstresses
1935 Organized in Seattle
Organized in Buffalo
1936 Organized rubber workers in Akron
Began involvement with Powers Hapgood
Organized in Montreal
1937 Organized auto workers in Flint for CIO
Returned to Montreal to organize
Reelected to second term as vice president
Slashed by razor during Cleveland Knitting Mill Strike
1942 Vacation in Mexico
1944 Resigned as ILGWU vice president
Published "Bread Upon the Waters"
1945 Worked for Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith
1946 Traveled to Norway, Sweden, Poland
Resigned from ADL and returned to New York City as a seamstress
1949 Worked as Midwest regional director for the American Trade Union Council of the
Histadrut
Death of Powers Hapgood
1950 Visited Europe and Israel
1955 Married Albert Martin (Frank Lopez)
1958 Published "Days of Our Lives"
1965 Died in Miami, Florida on December 6
Names:
Pesotta, Rose, 1896-1965.
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Subjects:
Labor disputes--United States.
Labor unions--United States.
Labor movement--United States.
Working class--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:
Rose Pesotta Audio-Visual Materials #5928 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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| Box 4 | Item 1 | |
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Blurb by Rose Pesotta; shots of workers and Firestone supporters; Rose
Pesotta visiting strikers; Ukulele on tent, Rose Pesotta and strikers
singing. VHS copy of film no.1
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| Box 4 | Item 2 | |
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Strike headquarters; Bakers; Outside agitators; Rose Pesotta and Union
management Krzycki; Akron Armory, strike over, officers of International,
Workers on strike; Enter diners; Cars, snow; Outside agitators introduced.
VHS copy of film no.2
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| Box 4 | Item 3 | |
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VHS copy of film no.3
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| Box 4 | Item 4 | |
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VHS copy of film no.4
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| Box 4 | Item 5 | |
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VHS copy of film no.5
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| Box 4 | Item 6 | |
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VHS copy of film no.6
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| Box 4 | Item 7 | |
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VHS copy of film no.7
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| Box 4 | Item 8 | |
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VHS copy of film no.8
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| Box 4 | Item 9 | |
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VHS copy of film no.9
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| Box 4 | Item 10 | |
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VHS copy of film no.10
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| Box 4 | Item 11 | |
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VHS copy of film no.11
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| Box 4 | Item 12 | |
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VHS copy of film no.12
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| Box 4 | Item 13 | |
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Possibly as second VHS copy of film no.7, "Organizing"
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| Box 4 | Item 14 | |
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Lists 12 segments by time stamp. This may be all 12 films on one VHS
cassette.
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| Box 5 | Item 1 | |
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Blurb by Rose Pesotta; shots of workers and Firestone supporters; Rose
Pesotta visiting strikers; Ukulele on tent, Rose Pesotta and strikers
singing. Original film no.1
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| Box 5 | Item 2 | |
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Strike headquarters; Bakers; Outside agitators; Rose Pesotta and Union
management Krzycki; Akron Armory, strike over, officers of International,
Workers on strike; Enter diners; Cars, snow; Outside agitators introduced.
Original film no.2
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| Box 5 | Item 3 | |
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Original film no.3
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| Box 5 | Item 4 | |
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Original film no.4
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| Box 5 | Item 5 | |
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Original film no.5
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| Box 5 | Item 6 | |
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Original film no.6
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| Box 6 | Item 7 | |
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Original film no.7
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| Box 6 | Item 8 | |
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Original film no.8
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| Box 6 | Item 9 | |
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Original film no.9
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| Box 6 | Item 10 | |
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Original film no.10
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| Box 6 | Item 11 | |
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Original film no.11
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| Box 6 | Item 12 | |
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Original film no.12
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