Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America records
Collection
Identifier: 5619
Abstract
Correspondence, clippings, minutes, organizing leaflets, photographs, speeches, phonographs, scrapbooks, and organizational records documenting the founding, growth, history and development of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; the activities of its officers and other leading officials; its organizing activities; and its administration.
Dates:
1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)
ILGWU Communications Department Biography Files
Collection
Identifier: 5780/177
Abstract
Biographical files on union members, union officers, and political and public figures.
Dates:
0000-2999
ILGWU. Local 22. Charles S. Zimmerman photographs
Collection
Identifier: 5780/014 P
Abstract
The collection includes images of important people in Local 22, along with images of sports and cultural events, parades, marches, strikes, meetings and educational programs.
Dates:
1930-1959
International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Benjamin Schlesinger, President. Records
Collection
Identifier: 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;...
Dates:
1914-1923.