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Strikes (see also: Bx. 50 ff 23) [folder 1 of 14]

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 1

Scope and Contents

Includes: Strikers wearing only corsets strike against American Lady Corset Co., Jan. 1941, Detroit MI; employees strike at Brownhill Kramer Full Fashioned Hosiery Mill, Philadelphia, 1/12/37; Harvard University students join a picket line against Vanta Co., 2/1/46; Women striking Nordeen Co. huddle around a fire; Antonini and David Dubinsky lead the strike of Local 457 against Kayser - Roth, 1959; employees of Carolina Industrial Manufacturing Corp. strike, 3/1/55; Local 155 members strike Devon Knitwear; Hochman, Zimmerman, and Antonini lead an ILGWU mass demonstration; Local 187 members strike Mound Carothers Casket Co.; Local 167 members strike Mayehoff, 1958; Jacobs Bros. employees strike; Local 145 members strike, 1958; Padilla Sportswear workers strike; workers strike against Digby Manufacturing Co., 1958; woman from Local 151 with strike placards, 1958; Jerry Gilden workers strike, 2/25/58; workers strike Mountain Top Co., Hendersonville, North Carolina, 4/28/58; members of Local 415, Miami Florida; workers strike against Franklin - Simon; women with placards for strike against Serbin Inc., Fayetteville, Tenn.; Local 408 members hand out leaflets; policeman talks to Ann Dress Co. strikers, Saugerties New York, 3/17/58; Serbin employees picket on the Alabama - Tennessee state line; workers of River Park Manufacturing Co. strike; Belle Manufacturing Co. workers strike; Queen City Dress Co. workers strike, 3/5/58; three ILGWU men on strike, March 5, 1958; Friedman - Blau - Farber workers on strike; Local 142 workers strike against Kaplan Bros.; police break up strike of W.P.A. artists, 12/1/36; Iris workers on strike; workers of Plymouth Co. on strike, 1955; workers picket Glamour Garment; Serbin workers display placards on their boat; Hartsville Workers on strike; Boston garment workers being arrested, 2/20/30; Revelation Bra Co. workers on strike; the ILGWU convention, Atlantic City, May 1937; women strike Walterboro Mfg. Co.; the end of a sit down strike at Kelsey Hayes, Detroit Michigan, 12/24/36; picketers with placards against Kay Dunhill Dresses; workers strike Topps Coat Co., 8/15/52; worker of Robert Leonard on strike; women strike Padula Sportswear; David Dubinsky speech; women of Local 399 distributing leaflets outside department store, Evansville, Ind., 6/31/59; strikers in Freydberg N. Carolina, July 1954; Milham Products workers on strike; Local 91 members picket Gort Girl; workers strike Kayser - Roth, 1959; David Dubinsky helps the Kayser - Roth picketing; Hymar employees on strike; workers of Mittelman - Bernstein picketing in New York City; Emkay strikers take a break, 8/22/53, W. Wyoming, Pennsylvania; Plasco Co. workers strike; workers strike Hazen Bros.; police arrest woman, 2/26/59; Women fight at Memphis strike, 6/6/37; Local 509 strikes Annshire Garment Co.; Blue Bonnet on strike with American Legion members; Betty Lou Jrs. inc. workers on strike, 4/28/54; Union members distribute a leaflet; Workers of H.W. Gossard on strike; Fifth Avenue employees strike, 8/19/52; Artificial Flower Workers' Union strikes against Supervalue Flower Co.; Sterling Neckwear employees strike, 8/6/53; Antonini, Zimmerman, Hochman standing on a platform; child of a striker holds a placard in Vanta strike, Newton, Mass., 2/1/46; men and women hold their general strike cards; women eat a meal in a room with ILGWU posters on the wall; cloak strike, 8/15/52; City Sportswear employees strike, 8/26/52; Beverly Fashions workers on strike; picketers at Page Boy talk to the operators of the shop, 1/15/53; striking women eat breakfast together

Dates

  • 1835-1992

Language of Materials

Collection material in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Yiddish, Chinese

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

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Extent

73.14 cubic feet

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

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