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Archives at Cornell

Box 3

 Container

Contains 46 Results:

Landau, Frank (National Retail Clothier) 1925

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 22
Abstract

Request for information on working conditions.

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Lever, E.J., 1925

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 24
Abstract Discussion of establishing a "separate identity"; struggle with the Rickert faction in Chicago; the Rickert delegation being seated at the AFL convention; conditions and labor relations at Hart, Schaffner and Marx; investigation into women workers and piece work prices; standardization of prices with Hopkins and Frankforter (War Standards); discrimination for union activity at Alfred, Decker & Cohn and Rosenwald & Weil; strike at Alfred, Decker & Cohn uniform shop; strike and...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Johannsen, A. (Organizer, Chicago) 1918-20

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Abstract

Chicago: organizing knit goods workers; back pay to employees of Harris and Guthman Brothers; Chicago Packing Plants general strike relating to "race riots"; Indianapolis: organizing workers (especially women workers); Minneapolis: trade unionists and cooperative farmers begin daily paper; Milwaukee: Nettie Richardson's organizing efforts acknowledged; jurisdictional controversy with Journeymen Tailors' Union (J.S. Polacheck shop).

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Kottler, P. (Knee Pants Makers Union, Brooklyn) 1914

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 14
Abstract

Owners of Freedman and Klein request "to work as a corporation"; strike.

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)