Local 20 [folder 1 of 2]

includes: Local 20 Manager Joseph Kessler explaining the terms of a new agreement covering 4000 members at a membership meeting; Gathering honoring Kessler's 25 Years at the helm of Local 20, speech by VP David Gingold, Stulberg on dais; Local 20's Fiftieth Anniversary banquet - David Dubinsky speech, VP David Gingold and Joe Kessler on dais; audience shot of Local 20 members listening to David Dubinsky speak; Members of Local 20 meet at Diplomat Hotel, November 3, 1949; Local 20 Weekend at Unity House, circa 1954; Portrait of Joe Kessler; Local 20 meeting of Executives; Shop scene - Joe Falk, Local 20 member, cementing seam on raincoat cloth; Shop scenes - Esther Reel holding raincoat material, and Virgilio Munoz at buttonhole machine; Sam Fine (podium) - newly elected manager of Local 20 and the rest of the newly elected officers and executive board of Local 20 pose for picture at meeting in Hotel New Yorker, February 18, 1971; Meeting in Stulberg's office of both Union Officials and employer representatives to avoid contract running out - present are: Arnold Harris, Simon Cohen, VP Wilbur Daniels, Sam Fine, Joseph Kessler, and Abe Dolan; Kessler reading Union demands to Employer representatives; Kessler explaining new contract to Local 20 members with a 25 percent wage increase; Local 20 picket line with placards in front of Weather Craft Goodstein Brothers