International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Schlesinger, Benjamin, President. Records,
1914-1923., 1914-1923.
Collection Number: 5780/009
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Benjamin Schlesinger, President. Records, 1914-1923.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5780/009
Abstract:
Correspondence, form letters, circulars and subject files relating to Schlesinger's
second term as president, June 1914 to January 1923. Topics covered in these materials
include union organizing; strikes, labor disputes, working conditions, and other labor
issues in the women's garment industry, particularly in New York City; inter-union
relations; relations between manufacturers' associations and the union; efforts by
Schlesinger and others to form an alliance of garment workers' unions; discussions
with foreign garment workers' unions; education for workers in New York City; and
Jewish war relief efforts during World War I.
Creator:
Benjamin Schlesinger.
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Benjamin Schlesinger was born December 25, 1876, in Krakai, Lithuania, in what was
then Russia, the son of Nechemiah and Judith Schlesinger, and attended the local Cheyder.
His grandfather, Simcha, was Rabbi in Racinn, Lithuania. His father died when he was
four and his mother some years later in 1909. He emigrated with an older brother to
this country in 1891, settling in Chicago, and became an American citizen in that
city on March 19, 1898. He was married to Rose Schenhause on August 27, 1899 in Chicago.
Schlesinger's first job after his arrival in Chicago was peddling matches but, a
few weeks later, he was employed as a "floor boy" in a cloak shop. Two years later,
when he was 17, and a sewing machine operator on ladies' cloaks and suits, he led
his first strike, a successful one, in his shop. He was a delegate from Chicago to
the convention, held at 125 Rivington Street, New York City, which founded the International
Cloak Makers Union of America on May 1, 1892. Schlesinger, then only 16 years old,
was elected treasurer. In 1895 he was elected recording secretary of the Chicago Cloak
Makers Union, a post he held for at least three years. He became business manager
and organizer of Local 5 of the Chicago Cloakmakers' Union in 1902 and, when the five
Chicago locals united under a Joint Executive Board, he became manager of that organization.
In May 1903, Schlesinger was elected president of the ILGWU and, after only a brief
term, became organizer for the New York locals in January 1904, in which post he stayed
until 1907. For the period 1907 to 1912, he served as manager of the New York Jewish
Daily Forward; while still in that position, he served as a member of the Strike Committee
in the 1910 strike and later was appointed a member of the Board of Grievances (1911).
In June 1914, Schlesinger was once more elected president of the ILGWU and served
until January 1923. During this period, other offices he held included the following:
manager of the New York Joint Board, "without pay, temporarily," (1914); president,
Needle Trades Workers Alliance (1920); member, general executive board, International
Clothing Workers' Federation, Amsterdam (1919-23); delegate, American Federation of
Labor, to British Trades Union Congress (1922); and member, People's Relief Committee
(1917-22). Schlesinger served (1923-28) as manager of the Chicago office of the Jewish
Daily Forward and was elected, for the last time, as president of the ILGWU in October
1928, serving until his death in June 1932. Benjamin Schlesinger was, at various times,
a member of the Workmen's Circle, Forward Association, Socialist Labor Party and Socialist
Party.
Among the proposals which Benjamin Schlesinger initiated and which were then or later
adopted as policy by the Union, were the following: he introduced at the convention
of 1902 a resolution urging locals to arrange bimonthly or at least monthly lectures
and discussions on all educational subjects. At the 1903 convention, he introduced
a resolution urging locals to establish sick-benefit funds. In 1914, he proposed special
training of active workers for the Union and the International entered into an arrangement
with the Rand School of Social Science for a course of studies for members of the
New York locals. The program lasted for one year. The following year, June 28, 1915,
in the midst of demonstrations and strike demands on the question of "hiring and firing,"
Schlesinger asked the Protective Association to submit the dispute to a committee
of unbiased persons. As a result a Council of Conciliation was appointed by Mayor
Mitchel and the strike was avoided. Another strike in Chicago that same summer was
similarly avoided. In 1918, he successfully proposed that business agents be considered
"experts" and appointed by the elected officers. He was also successful, in the period
1920-21, in dividing Local 25 into two groups of waistmakers and dressmakers, to accommodate
the growing dressmaking section of the industry, resulting in the establishment of
the New York Dress Makers' Union, Local 22, then the largest local union in the International.
On July 1, 1920, Schlesinger addressed a letter to the Neckwear Workers' Union of
New York, the International Journeymen Tailors' Union of America, the International
Fur Workers' Union, the United Garment Workers of America, the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers of America, and the United Cloth Hat, Cap Makers and Millinery Workers' Union
of America, proposing an alliance of all garment workers unions. Discussions dragged
on for several years but with only limited success. On November 15, 1921, Schlesinger
laid the cornerstone of a new building at 3 W. 16th Street, NYC, which served as the
union's General Office until it moved into 1710 Broadway in 1943.
He was the author of several pamphlets on the garment industry. He died on June 6,
1932. In 1967, the junior high school on New York Blvd., Jamaica, Queens, was named
the Benjamin Schlesinger Junior High School in his honor.
Correspondence, form letters, circulars and subject files relating to Schlesinger's
term, June 1914 to January 1923. Topics covered in these materials include union organizing;
strikes, labor disputes, working conditions, and other labor issues in the women's
garment industry, particularly in New York City; inter-union relations; relations
between manufacturers' associations and the union; efforts by Schlesinger and others
to form an alliance of garment workers' unions; discussions with foreign garment workers'
unions; education for workers in New York City; and Jewish war relief efforts during
World War I.
Individuals and organizations represented in the general correspondence file include:
Jane Addams; American Medical Aid for Russia; the American Red Cross; Abraham Baroff;
Joseph Barondess; Bernard Braff; Robert Bruère; the Cloak, Suit & Skirt Manufacturer's
Association; Max Danish; Clarence S. Darrow; Israel Feinberg; John Fitzpatrick of
the Chicago Federation of Labor; J.J. Goldman; Adolph Held; Henry Hilfers; Sidney
Hillman; Hamilton Holt; Humanitarian Cult; Isaac A. Hourwich; Fiorello H. LaGuardia;
Algernon Lee; Jean Longuet; Judah L. Magnes; Amos Pinchot; Norman Thomas; Alexander
Trachtenberg; B.C. Vladeck; Lillian Wald; Stephen Wise; and the Women's Trade Union
League.
Significant organizations, individuals and topics represented in the subject files
include AFL officials, including letters from Samuel Gompers and Frank Morrison; the
British Trades Union Congress; letters from Abraham Cahan of the Jewish Daily Forward;
correspondence from Morris Hillquit on union legal matters; and materials on the International
Clothing Workers' Federation.
Other organizations and individuals in the subject files include letters from Louis
Marshall; the Mayor's Council of Conciliation in the Cloak & Suit Industry (New York
City); United Garment Workers' Union of America; United Ladies' Tailors Trade Union
(London, England); United Mine Workers; United Textile Workers; letters from Samuel
Untermyer; the Waterproof Garment Manufacturers' Association; and the Wholesale Dress
Manufacturers' Association.
The subject files also contain considerable documentation of numerous locals of the
International, including Local 8 (San Francisco Cloak Makers' Union), Local 21 (Chicago
Cloak Cutters' Union), Local 22 (Dressmakers' Union), Local 23 (Skirt and Cloth Dressmakers'
Union), Local 25 (Ladies' Waist and Dressmakers Union), Local 28 (Ladies' Garment
Workers, Seattle), Local 30 (Cutters and Trimmers of Cincinnati), Local 32, (Winnipeg,
Manitoba), Local 33 (Corset Workers' Union), Local 34 (Corset Cutters Union), Local
35 (Cloak, Skirt and Dress Pressers' Union), Local 37 (Pressers' Union), Local 38
(Ladies' Tailors' and Dressmakers' Union), Local 39-40 (Corset Workers' Union), and
Local 41 (Wrapper, Kimono and House Dress Makers' Union).
Other locals represented include Local 43 (Ladies' Waist and White Goods Workers'
Union), Local 44 (Chicago Cloakmakers' Union), Local 45 (National Alliance of Ladies'
Cloaks and Suits Designers), Local 48 (Italian Cloak, Suit and Skirtmakers' Union),
Local 49 (Waist, Dress and Petticoat Workers' Union), Local 50 (Misses and Children's
Dressmakers' Union), and Local 52 (Los Angeles).
5780/002. David Dubinsky. President's records, 1932-1966.
5780/010. Benjamin Schlesinger. President's records, 1928-1932.
5780/056. Research Department records, 1907-1948, 1910-1940 (bulk).
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International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Benjamin Schlesinger, President. Records,
1914-1923. #5780/009. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
Baroff, Abraham.
Barondess, Joseph.
Braff, Bernard.
Bruère, Robert W. (Robert Walter), 1876-1964.
Cahan, Abraham, 1860-1951.
Danish, Max D.
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938.
Feinberg, Israel.
Fitzpatrick, John.
Goldman, J. J.
Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924.
Held, Adolph.
Hillman, Sidney, 1887-1946.
Hillquit, Morris, 1869-1933.
Holt, Hamilton, 1872-1951.
Hourwich, Isaac Aaronovich, 1860-1924.
LaGuardia, Fiorello H.(Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947.
Lee, Algernon.
Longuet, Jean.
Magnes, Judah Leon, 1887-1948.
Marshall, Louis, 1856-1929.
Morrison, Frank, 1859-1949.
Pinchot, Amos, 1873-1944.
Schlesinger, Benjamin, 1876-1932.
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968.
Trachtenberg, Alexander.
Untermyer, Samuel, 1858-1940.
Vladeck, Baruch Charney, 1886-1935.
Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940.
Wise, Stephen S.
American Federation of Labor.
American Medical Aid for Russia (Organization)
American National Red Cross.
Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' Protective Association (New York, N.Y.)
Humanitarian Cult (Organization)
International Clothing Workers' Federation.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union--Presidents.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 5 (Chicago, Ill.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 8 (San Francisco, Calif.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 21 (Chicago, Ill.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 22 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 23-25 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 28 (Seattle, Wash.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 30 (Cincinnati, Ohio)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 32 (Winnipeg, Man.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 33 (Bridgeport, Conn.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 34 (Bridgeport, Conn.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 35 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 37 (Cleveland, Ohio)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 38 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 39-40 (New Haven, Conn.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 41 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 43 (Worcester, Mass.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 44 (Chicago, Ill.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 45 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 48 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 49 (Boston, Mass.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 50 (New York, N.Y.)
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 52 (Los Angeles, Calif.)
New York (N.Y.).Mayor's Council of Conciliation in the Cloak and Suit Industry.
Trades Union Congress.
United Garment Workers Union of America.
United Ladies' Tailors Trade Union.
United Mine Workers of America.
United Textile Workers.
Waterproof Garment Manufacturers' Association.
Wholesale Dress Manufacturers' Association.
Women's Trade Union League.
Subjects:
Trade-unions--Clothing workers--United States.
Trade-unions--Clothing workers--New York (State)--New York.
Trade-unions--Clothing workers.
Women's clothing industry -- United States
Women's clothing industry--New York (State)--New York.
Clothing trade--United States.
Clothing trade--New York (State)--New York.
Clothing workers -- United States
Clothing workers--New York (State)--New York.
Strikes and lockouts--Clothing trade--New York (State)--New York.
Strikes and lockouts--Clothing trade--United States.
Labor disputes--New York (State)--New York.
Labor disputes--United States.
Industrial relations -- United States
Industrial relations--New York (State)--New York.
Working class--Education--New York (State)--New York.
World War, 1914-1918--Civilian relief.
Form and Genre Terms:
Correspondence
Organization files
Form letters
Circulars
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Correspondence.
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
A.
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Includes letter from Jane Addams, Aug. 1922; letter notifying Schlesinger on his election
to membership on the Organizing Committee for the Peoples Council of America for Democracy
and Peace, June 1917; proposed outline from American Civil Liberties Union on relation
between employers and workers, July 1921; letters from American Jewish Congress re
meetings, 1917.
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
A.
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Includes financial requests from American Medical Aid for Russia, 1922; letters from
American Red Cross on their campaigns, 1917-18; correspondence with Misha Appelbaum
(founder), Humanitarian Cult re:strike in cloak industry and his effort to arbitrate,
1916; letter from Leon Arkin (Jewish Daily Forward), Boston, on union activities in
Boston, 1922.
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
B.
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Includes correspondence with Abraham Baroff, 1919; letters from Joseph Barondess requesting
financial assistance for individuals and East Broadway Kehillah 1917-18; correspondence
with Arthur Somers (President), Board of Education, NYC, on use of Italian or Yiddish
in night courses in public schools, 1918.
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
B.
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Includes two letters from Bernard Braff (Gen. Secretary-Treas.) to Jacob Leibowitz
(Member, GEB), 1900-01; Robert W. Bruere's resignation letter from Board of Arbitration
in Dress Industry, 1916.
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
C.
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Includes letter from Allen Robinson (chairman), Citizens Committee for the Support
of the Locked-Out Cloak and Suit Makers requesting contributions to be used for settling
differences between manufacturers and union and not for strike benefits, July 1916;
Schlesinger letter to Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers Association, stating union's
position in adjusting relations between union and manufacturers, May 1922.
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
D.
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Includes memoranda with Max Danish (Editor), Justice, 1917-1918; letters from Clarence
S. Darrow, 1917, 1922; letter from Morris Weiss (President), Dress and Waist Manufacturers
Association on Garment Industry situation, Jan. 1919.
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
E.
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Includes letters from Educational Alliance, 1918; correspondence with Henry Hilfers
(Secretary), Essex Trades Council, 1915, 1918.
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
F.
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Includes letter from D. Feinberg (Secretary), Jewish Colonization Association, on
Jewish communities in Europe, Nov. 1915; Israel Feinberg letter of resignation as
General Manager from New York Cloak and Dress Joint Board, 1922; correspondence with
John Fitzpatrick (President), Chicago Federation of Labor, 1917, 1919-20; John P.
Frey (Editor), International. Moulders Union, 1922.
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
G.
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Including correspondence with Harry A. Garfield, Fuel Administrator, on order issued
on coal consumption (heatless Mondays) and suspension of order, Jan-Feb. 1918; letters
from J. J. Goldman (President), Dress and Waist Manufacturers Association, 1916.
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
H.
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Including letters from Adolph Held, Isaac A. Hourwich.
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
I.
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Including Hamilton Holt letter of resignation from Board of Arbitration in Dress and
Waist Industry, 1916; letter to International Journeymen Tailors' Union requesting
alliance of all garment workers' unions, Jan. 1920; General Executive Board resolution
against fascist activities in America, 1923
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
J.
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Including letter from John J. Jennings (business representative), Local 119, Steam
and Operating Engineers re: embroidery workers of New Jersey, 1916; letters from Adolph
Held, 1917; B.C. Vladeck, Jewish Daily Forward, 1919; correspondence with Jewish organizations
for aid, including letter from Jacob Schiff (chairman), Jewish War Relief Committee,
1918; Cyrus L. Sulzberger (chairman), Campaign for Jewish War Sufferers, 1917.
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
K.
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Including letter from Karl Kautsky transmitting article (not enclosed), 1920; letter
from George W. Kirchwey (Dean), Columbia University Law School, on plan for conference
between union and employers, 1920; Felix Warburg letter on union assistance to War
Relief Fund, 1918.
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
L-Le.
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Includes letter from Fiorello H. LaGuardia (Deputy Attorney General, New York) on
settling differences between Employers' Association and union 1916.
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Li-Lu.
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Includes letter from Abraham Liessin (Editor), Zukunft, n,d.; correspondence with
Jean Longuet (Editor), Le Populaire, 1920-22.
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
M.
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Includes letters from Judah L. Magnes; correspondence with William Morgan (President),
Merchants Association of New York, on disturbance incidents during the Waist and Dress
Industry strike, Feb. 1919.
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
N.
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Includes correspondence with Norman Thomas (Associate Editor), The Nation, July 1922;
letter to Neckwear Workers Union of New York, requesting alliance of all garment workers'
unions, July 1920; Moses Oppenheimer letter offering Schlesinger position of business
manager for the New Review, October 1912.
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
O-Q.
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Includes letters from Amos Pinchot on military and war matters, 1917.
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
R.
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Includes correspondence with Alexander Trachtenberg (director), Department of Labor
Research, Rand School of Social Science, 1916,. 1918; letter from Algernon Lee (education
director), Rand School of Social Science, 1922; letters from Morris Rothenberg, union
attorney, re: cases, 1919-1921; letter from Sidney Hillman, (president), Russian American
Industrial Corporation, on supplying money (capital) to factories in Russia, 1922.
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
S.
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
T-U.
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Includes letter from Cyrus Adler, United Synagogue of America, on union activities
in Philadelphia.
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
W-Z.
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Includes letters from Lillian Wald, Stephen Wise, 1915; correspondence with New York
City Police Commissioner Arthur Woods on police handling of strikes, 1915-1916; letters
from Women's Trade Union League on union-related matters, 1914-1918.
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Series II. Subject Files.
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A. American Federation of Labor, 1914-1923.
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
AFL: 1914.
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Includes correspondence on placing AFL organizer in Cleveland to aid in organizing
cloakmakers.
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
AFL: May-July 1915.
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Correspondence on conflict between union and Cloak Manufacturers' Protective Association,
May-June; correspondence re: unions that broke away from United Garment workers of
America and activities of United Hebrew Trades and AFL in trying to bring reconciliation
in the trade unions, June-July.
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
AFL Sept.-Dec. 1915.
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Includes correspondence on organizing activities; negotiations with manufacturers.
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
AFL: Jan-Aug. 1916.
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Includes correspondence on AFL assisting union during embroidery workers' strike,
Hudson County, New Jersey; jurisdictional dispute with United Textile Workers.
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
AFL: Sept.-Dec. 1916
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
AFL: Jan-July 1917.
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Correspondence Union activities, Chicago; manufacturing of military garments in waterproof
garment factories, New York
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Box 2 | Folder 12 |
AFL: Aug-Dec. 1917.
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Includes correspondence on government contracts and labor-industrial problems during
war.
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Box 2 | Folder 13 |
AFL: Jan-April 1918.
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Same as above.
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Box 2 | Folder 14 |
AFL: May-Dec. 1918.
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Includes correspondence re strike at firm, Leo F. Strum Co. under contract with Navy
Dept.; letter from Santiago Iglesias (President), Free Federation of Workingmen of
Puerto Rico, re Governor Arthur Yager of Puerto Rico, 1918.
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Box 2 | Folder 15 |
AFL: 1919
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Box 2 | Folder 16 |
AFL: 1920.
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Includes correspondence and report, "Profiteering in dress goods and women's garments,"
May-June.
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Box 2 | Folder 17 |
AFL: 1921.
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Includes letter from Charles E. Hughes (Secretary of State) to Samuel Gompers on trade
relations between U.S. and Russia, April.
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Box 2 | Folder 18 |
AFL: 1922-Jan. 1923.
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Includes correspondence on AFL affiliating with International. Federation of Trade
Unions.
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B. Subject Files, A-L.
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Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Austrian Tailors Union, 1920.
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
British Trades Union Congress. 1922.
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Benjamin Schlesinger, AFL delegate. Includes Schlesinger address; correspondence with
Gompers on AFL affiliating with International. Federation of Trade Unions and being
represented at Hague Disarmament Conference, Dec.
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Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Cahan, Abraham.
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Two letters, 1919, 1922.
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Form letters and circulars, 1915-1916.
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Form letters and circulars, 1917-1918.
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Form letters and circulars, 1919.
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Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Form letters and circulars, 1920.
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Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Form letters and circulars, 1921.
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Form letters and circulars, 1922.
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Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Hillquit, Morris, 1916-22.
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Correspondence re: cases, agreements and related Union matters.
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Box 3 | Folder 10 |
International Clothing Workers Federation, Amsterdam, Holland, 1920.
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Correspondence with Secretary Van der Heeg on international trade union matters, conferences.
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Box 3 | Folder 11 |
International Clothing Workers Federation, 1921-1922.
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Includes correspondence on conditions in Hungarian garment industry; finances.
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C. Locals.
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Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Locals 8 and 21 (Cloak and Skirtmakers' Union) 1914-16, 1921-22.
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Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Local 22 (Dressmakers' Union) 1921-22.
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Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Local 23 (Skirt and Cloth Dressmakers' Union) 1915-19, 1922.
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Includes minutes of meeting between Locals 22 and 23 on re-affiliation, Nov. 1922.
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Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Local 25 (Ladies Waist and Dressmakers' Union) Union
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Includes letter to Louis D. Brandeis (chairman), Board of Arbitration, from Chief
Clerks of Local and Dress and Waist Manufacturers Association on problem in Dress
and Waist Makers Industry, 1914.
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Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Local 25: 1916-21.
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Includes letters from Solomon Polakoff, Isidore Schoenholtz; reports.
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Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Local 28 (Ladies Garment Workers, Seattle, Wash.) 1914-21.
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Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Local 30 (Cutters and Trimmers of Cincinnati) 1919
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Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Local 32, 1918.
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Box 3 | Folder 20 |
Local 33 (Corset Workers' Union) 1915-20.
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Box 3 | Folder 21 |
Local 34 (Corset Cutters' Union) 1922.
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Box 3 | Folder 22 |
Local 35 (Cloak, Skirt and Dress Pressers' Union), 1914-22.
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Includes correspondence with A.E. Kazan (Secretary-Treasurer), 1914-15; Joseph Breslaver
(Breslaw), Manager, 1917-1918.
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Box 3 | Folder 23 |
Local 37 (Pressers Union) 1915.
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Box 3 | Folder 24 |
Local 38 (Ladies Tailors and Dressmakers' Union) 1912-1916.
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Including charge by Merchants' Society of Ladies Tailors and Dressmakers' and counter-charges
against them by Local, 1912; correspondence between Merchants Society of Ladies Tailors
and Local on negotiations for agreement, 1914-1916; undated letters.
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Box 3 | Folder 25 |
Local 39-40 (Corset Workers Union), New Haven, Conn. 1919
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Local 41 (Wrapper, Kimono and House Dress Makers' Union), 1914-1916.
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Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Local 43 (Ladies Waist and White Goods Workers Union), Worcester, Mass, 1918-1919.
Including letters from Local officers, Samuel Cohen and Sigmund Haiman.
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Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Local 44 (Chicago Cloakmakers' Union), 1914-1915.
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Letters from Hyman Schoolman and F. Finkler.
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Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Local 44 , 1916-1917 (Changed to Local 5, ca. 1919.)
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Correspondence with Hyman Schoolman on organizing, negotiating agreements.
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Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Local 45, 1918.
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Letters from National Alliance of Ladies Cloaks and Suits Designers on application
for charter.
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Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Local 48 (Italian Cloak, Suit and Skirtmakers' Union), 1916.
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Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Local 49 (Waist, Dress and Petticoat Workers' Union), Boston, 1916-1917.
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Includes letters from Samuel Jacobson.
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Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Local 49: 1918-1922.
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Continued correspondence with Samuel Jacobson.
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Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Local 50 (Misses and Children's Dressmakers' Union), 1916-18.
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Letters from Harry Greenberg.
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Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Local 52, Los Angeles 1914, 1918-1919.
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Includes correspondence with Morris Biell (Business Agent); M. Michaelson (President),
Cloak and Suit Manufacturers; Charles T. Connell, U.S. Commission of Conciliation,
Dept. of Labor, on 1919 strike in L.A.
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Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Local 52, 1920-1922.
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D. Subject Files, M-Z.
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Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Marshall, Louis, 1915-1922.
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Includes letter requesting Schlesinger to write President to veto immigration bill,
1915; Abraham Cahan letter to Louis Marshall stating policy of paper (Jewish Daily
Forward) with regard to criticizing government during war, Oct. 1917; correspondence
on conditions between Union and Cloak and Suit firm, R. Sadowsky, 1921-22.
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Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Mayor's Council of Conciliation in the Cloak and Suit Industry (New York, N.Y.), July
1915-April 1916.
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Correspondence with Felix Adler (Chairman), mayor's council; Henry Bruère (Vice Chairman);
letter from Mayor John P. Mitchel; copies of letters between John B. Stanchfield,
Employers Council and Jacob Panken, Council for union, on negotiations to avert strike
in industry.
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Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Mayor's Office (New York, N.Y.) 1916-1919.
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Letters requesting Schlesinger to serve on committees, 1916-17; correspondence with
Mayor John Hylan on controversy between Union and Dress and Waist Manufacturers Association,
1919.
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Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Sigman, Morris.
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Two letters, Oct. 1922, Jan. 1923.
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Box 4 | Folder 16 |
United Garment Workers of America, 1914-1920.
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Includes letters to U.G.W. requesting alliance of garment workers' unions, June 1920.
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Box 4 | Folder 17 |
United Ladies Trade Union, London, England, 1920-1922.
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Box 4 | Folder 18 |
United Mine Workers of America, 1922.
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Includes letters from William Green (Secretary-Treasurer) on Union contribution to
striking coal miners.
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Box 4 | Folder 19 |
United Textile Workers of America, 1916-1922.
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Includes correspondence with John Golden (President) on jurisdictional dispute over
embroidery workers, 1916.
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Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Untermyer, Samuel, 1919-22.
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Includes correspondence on candidacy of Irwin Untermyer for Supreme Court Justice
in New York, 1919.
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Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Waterproof Garment Manufacturers' Association, 1915-1918.
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Correspondence on arrangements to avert strike in industry.
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Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Wholesale Dress Manufacturers' Association, 1919-1922.
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Correspondence with Alfred Lyons (Manager), Jacob Siegal (President) on negotiations
for agreements.
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