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Rose Pesotta papers, 1922-1965.

Title: Rose Pesotta papers, 1922-1965.

Collection consists of correspondence and papers reflecting Pesotta's career as official of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and as organizer of garment workers in various cities in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear feet (45 boxes, 4 packages)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122517425 View

International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Charles S. Zimmerman papers, 1919-1958 [bulk 1920-1945].

Title: International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Charles S. Zimmerman papers, 1919-1958 [bulk 1920-1945].

The Charles Zimmerman papers consist primarily of correspondence, reports, minutes, newspaper clippings, and broadsides dealing with his activities as a leader in Local 22 (in Series I), as well as his other union and political activities (in Series II).

ArchivalResource:

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Educational Dept. Executive Secretary. ILGWU. Education Department. Fannia Cohn photographs, 1920-1960.

Title: ILGWU. Education Department. Fannia Cohn photographs, 1920-1960.

Collection consists of photographs pulled from the Fannia Cohn papers. Photographs include portraits of Cohn, as well as document activities of Local 66, trips to Unity House, Triangle Factory fire commemoration, and other union activities.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/241299831 View

Labadie, Jo, 1850-1933. Jo Labadie papers, 1880-1931.

Title: Jo Labadie papers, 1880-1931.

Chiefly includes correspondence with fellow workers in the labor movement, publishers and writers for anarchist, socialist, and labor journals, and a wide circle of friends ...

ArchivalResource: 3,166 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68796437 View

Elaine Leeder Collection of Rose Pesotta Papers, 1912-1961.

Title: Elaine Leeder Collection of Rose Pesotta Papers, 1912-1961.

Correspondence, publications, photographs, and videotapes of Rose Pesotta, organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 linear feet.

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Newman, Pauline. Papers, 1903-1982 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1903-1982 (inclusive).

Personal papers consist of a memoir and autobiographical notes, two oral history interviews, diaries, daybooks, and correspondence, including letters from and about Frieda Miller. Reports, correspondence, position papers, articles, and minutes document Newman's work with the WTUL, ILGWU and its health center, the Women's Bureau, and other government agencies. Included is correspondence with Leonora O'Reilly, Rose Schneiderman, Elisabeth Christman and Mary Dreier. Newman's travels through the Midwest, 1911-1918, to organize union locals and strikes are discussed in letters to Schneiderman and in articles Newman wrote. Her articles also reflect her support of protective legislation, equal pay, improved working conditions, and the minimum wage, and her opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. A microfilm of clippings by and about Newman and some photos are also included.

ArchivalResource: 5.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122576243 View

Newman, Pauline, ca. 1890-1986. Papers, 1900-1980

Title: Papers of Pauline Newman, 1900-1980

Correspondence, reports, photographs, etc., of labor organizer Pauline Newman.

ArchivalResource: 4.17 linear ft.; (10 file boxes, 5 photograph folders, 1 folio+ item)

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Pesotta, Rose, 1896-. 12th anniversary - Sacco-Vanzetti, 1939.

Title: 12th anniversary - Sacco-Vanzetti, 1939.

ArchivalResource: 3 p. Typescript (carbon copy)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34366598 View

William Haber Papers, 1918-1988

Title: William Haber Papers, 1918-1988

University of Michigan teacher and administrator, economist, labor mediator, and member of boards of various universities, Jewish educational, social, and welfare agencies, and public official. Series in collection include: Biographical/Personal, Correspondence, Jewish Organizations, University of Michigan, Other Organizational Activities, Appearances, Writings, Newspaper Clippings and Press Releases, and University of Wisconsin Student Notebooks and Papers, 1924-1926. Subjects covered in collection pertain to his activities as economist and authority on matters of labor economics, social security, and unemployment insurance. Also documented is his involvement with various Jewish social and philanthropic organizations, including ORT, B'nai B'rith, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Hebrew University, and to his work as Advisor on Jewish Affairs to General Lucius Clay. Correspondents in the collection include public figures from government, labor, universities, Jewish organizations, and philanthropic agencies.

ArchivalResource: 49 linear ft.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-85198?rgn=main;view=text View

Rose Schneiderman Collection. Photographic prints, 1909-1962.

Title: Rose Schneiderman Collection. Photographic prints, 1909-1962.

The bulk of the images in this collection are group portraits showing members of the various labor organizations in which Schneiderman participated. Especially notable are: the young Schneiderman speaking at a suffrage rally; Schneiderman with a WTUL parade float, individual studio portraits of WTUL leaders, some with handwritten inscriptions; the First International Congress of Working Women; the staff of the Bryn Mawr Summer School of Women Workers; Eleanor Roosevelt with the WTUL leadership; an informal snapshot of Schneiderman with FDR and a series of 8 photoprints of WAACs training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, during World War II. In addition, the Collection includes one 8 1/2 x 11 color poster announcing a Schneiderman lecture (c. 1914) on the "Women's Question from the Industrial Point of View".

ArchivalResource: .33 linear feet.109 photoprints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/477242836 View

ILGWU. Local 22. Charles S. Zimmerman photographs, 1930-1959

Title: ILGWU. Local 22. Charles S. Zimmerman photographs, 1930-1959

The collection includes images of important people and events in Local 22 including ILGWU President David Dubinsky, Local 22 Manager Charles Zimmerman, Max Danish, Fania Cohn, Rose Pesotta, and Maida Springer Kemp, along with images of sports and cultural events, parades, marches, strikes, meetings and educational programs.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

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Leeder, Elaine. The Gentle Warrior : Rose Pesotta, Anarchist and Labor Organizer. Elaine Leeder. Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, 1985.

Title: The Gentle Warrior : Rose Pesotta, Anarchist and Labor Organizer. Elaine Leeder. Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, 1985.

This is part of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union archives collection.

ArchivalResource: 250 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180689694 View

Pacific Street Films. Photographs, 1919-1980.

Title: Photographs, 1919-1980.

While there are too many photographs relating to individual anarchists and organizations (listed below) to give an account of each, a few must be specifically mentioned. Mollie Steimer (1897- July 23, 1980) was a lifelong anarchist activist who began her political career by opposing United States intervention in Soviet Russia during the First World War. In the course of this, she was arrested under the Sedition Act, and became one of the defendants in the landmark free speech case, Abrams v. United States. She, like her good friends Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, was deported from the United States to the Soviet Union. She was later also deported from the Soviet Union. Senya Fleshin, an anarchist whom she met while in the Soviet Union, became her lifelong companion. He later became a photographer, and they operated a photography studio, "SEMO" (Senya and Mollie) in Mexico City. (For more information on Steimer, and for more photographs of Steimer and her friends, see memorial pamphlet, Mollie Steimer--Toda Una Vida De Lucha: La Rebelion De Una Anarquista Condenada Por Ambos Imperios (Mexico 12, D.F.: Ediciones Antorcha, 1980).). Rudolph Rocker (1873-1958) was a German anarchist who became enamoured of Yiddish language and literature, and became one of its primary exponents and champions; he was responsible, also, in his capacity of editor of important Yiddish language publications, for having getting translated and publishing for the first time in Yiddish many of the great writers of nineteenth century literature. He was also a leader in the Jewish anarchist movement, and in the Jewish labor movement in England in the years before World War I. Milly Witkop Rocker was his companion (it is said that for reasons of principle they were never legally married). Valerio Isca is an Italian immigrant anarchist, who was, among other things, very active in the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti. He is a photographer, and many of his photographs are represented in this collection. Rose Pesotta (1896-1965), a friend of Mollie Steimer, was an anarchist who was also an organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union for many years; she also served as its vice-president for a number of years. The Freie Arbeiter Stimme (Free Voice of Labor) was a leading, and when it ceased publication, the oldest, Yiddish anarchist newspaper (1890-1977). Some photographs in the collection are of various individuals involved in the newspaper and of annual picnics given by the paper. The Mohegan Colony, at Crompond, New York, was founded in 1923. The community, which at one time convered as much as 450 acres, was a liberal and radical one (many anarchists were among its residents, including Harry Kelly, and Valerio and Ida Isca) established (as outlined in its constitution) "to free ourselves and our children from at least some of the diseases of city life; to give free rein in our thoughts and ideals; to offer our children a libertarian education which will fit them to be fighters for a better world."

ArchivalResource: .5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/477247993 View

John Nicholas Beffel Papers, 1909-1970

Title: John Nicholas Beffel Papers 1909-1970

John Nicholas Beffel (1887 1973) was a radical journalist, publicist, and editor. A prolific writer of articles, essays, and publicity dealing with leftist issues, many pertained to the syndicalist labor organization the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), anarchism and several noted anarchists (he edited several works by or about them). Beffel also produced short stories, autobiographical sketches and poems. Much of his activity involved defense committees for radicals either prosecuted either for their beliefs or for activity related thereto. The collection contains correspondence, subject files, writings by Beffel and others, (unprocessed) Family Files, and an unprocessed Addundum.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 linear feet; (32 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_055/tam_055.html View

Beffel, John Nicholas. Papers, 1909-1970.

Title: Papers, 1909-1970.

The papers contain correspondence, chiefly relating to Beffel's organizational and publicity efforts in the defense of accused radicals in the Mooney-Billings case, Centralia, Wash.; a case involving members of the IWW; the Sacco-Vanzetti case; the Kentucky miners' defense in Harlan County (1931); the case of Athos Terzani; Beffel's involvement with the League for Mutual Aid, a social service agency for leftists and his writings and those of his correspondents; and manuscripts of writings by Beffel and others, including Bakunin's Political Philosophy: His Writings on Scientific Anarchism, edited by Beffel; several chapters from Rose Pesotta's Bread Upon the Waters (1944), edited by Beffel and Days of Our Lives (1958), both before editorial changes; unpublished autobiographies by Harry Kelly and Enness Ellae (IWW member); published and unpublished articles and essays, most about labor and leftist personalities and issues; and stories, poems, reviews, and autobiographical pieces on Beffel's boyhood in Seneca, Ill. and notes for a book. Correspondents include Richard Brazier, Ralph Chaplin, Daniel Eisenberg, Aldino Felicani, Covington Hall, Harvey O'Connor, Rose Pesotta, Anna Roy, Vincent Starrett, Fred Thompson, Wilma Haywood Veleker, Albert Wehde, Art Young, and numerous family member.

ArchivalResource: 10.5 Linear ft. (25 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/478731549 View

Germer, Adolph. Papers, 1898-1966.

Title: Papers, 1898-1966.

Correspondence (1901-1958), diaries (1931-1958), speeches, reports and other union records, and printed matter of a labor organizer and leader and Socialist Party leader, concerning the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA); the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO); and activity with the United Rubber Workers (URW), the United Auto Workers (UAW), and the International Woodworkers (IWA). Active in the Socialist Party from 1900 to 1932, Germer served as national secretary, 1916-1918. Correspondents include Harry Bridges, John Brophy, Eugene V. Debs, Emma Goldman, William Green, Frank Hayes, Allan S. Haywood, William D. Haywood, Sidney Hillman, Morris Hillquit, Alexander Howat, John L. Lewis, Marx Lewis, Wayne Morse, Philip Murray, James O'Neal, Walter P. Reuther, Ernest Untermann, Frank P. Ziedler, and many others concerning labor and socialist concerns.

ArchivalResource: 10.4 c.f. (26 archives boxes and 1 package) and1 reel of microfilm (35mm); plusadditions of 22 photographs and8 pieces of ephemera.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701690 View

Rose Pesotta. Audio-visual materials.

Title: Rose Pesotta. Audio-visual materials.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet.

https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05928av.html View

ILGWU Communications Department Biography Files,

Title: ILGWU Communications Department Biography Files,

Biographical files on union members, union officers, and political and public figures.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet.

https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05780-177.html View

Rose Pesotta papers, 1922-1965

Title: Rose Pesotta papers 1922-1965

Rose Pesotta (1896-1965) was a labor union official. Collection consists of correspondence and papers reflecting Pesotta's career as official of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and as organizer of garment workers in various cities in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Includes diaries, 1934-1949; family letters; photographs; and writings, including drafts of her autobiographies, Bread Upon the Waters (1944) and Days of Our Lives (1958). Also, notes, personal accounts, pamphlets, news clippings, posters, and periodicals relating to the labor movement, Spanish Civil War, the Histadrut (Israeli labor organization), and topics such as anarchism, the labor movement, racism, and the plight of displaced persons after World War II.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear feet (45 boxes, 4 packages)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2390 View

Rose Schneiderman Photographs, 1909-1962

Title: Rose Schneiderman Photographs 1909-1962

From the time that she entered the garment trade in 1899, Rose Schneiderman worked through a variety of organizations to unionize women workers and to improve their working conditions. Schneiderman was a socialist, suffragist, labor organizer and women's rights activist who helped to organize the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and eulogized the garment workers who died in the 1911 Triangle Fire. A longtime member of the Women's Trade Union League, she was president of the national organization from 1927 to 1947. As a labor spokesperson, she served as secretary of the New York State Department of Labor, was the only woman member of the Labor Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration, and during World War II, she served on the Advisory Council of the Women's Recovery Administration and the Women's Interest Section of the War Department Bureau. The collection includes photographs that were separated from the Rose Schneiderman Papers (Tamiment 018). The bulk of the images are group portraits showing members of the various labor organizations in which Schneiderman participated.

ArchivalResource: 0.33 linear feet; (1 box)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/photos_010/photos_010.html View

Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940. Letters, 1922-1940, to Mark Mrachnyĭ.

Title: Letters, 1922-1940, to Mark Mrachnyĭ.

Some letters are addressed also to Mrachnyĭ's wife, Johanna Clevans, and several to Samuel Freedman with whom Mrachnyĭ was associated as editor of the Freie Arbeiter Stimme; also includes open letters for publication in the F.A.S. concerning the campaign to save Arthur Bortolotti from deportation, and a statement of funds collected for Spanish refugees.

ArchivalResource: 40 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34491645 View

Rose Pesotta. Papers, 1919-1961.

Title: Rose Pesotta. Papers, 1919-1961.

Correspondence, publications, photographs, and videotapes of Rose Pesotta, organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/KCL05928.xml View

Pesotta, Rose, 1896-. Hippolyte Havel, 1932.

Title: Hippolyte Havel, 1932.

ArchivalResource: 11 p. Typescript, with holograph revisions.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34366589 View

Pesotta, Rose, 1896-. Letter, 1927 Apr. 11, New York, to "Dear Comrade" [i.e. J.A. Labadie? Detroit].

Title: Letter, 1927 Apr. 11, New York, to "Dear Comrade" [i.e. J.A. Labadie? Detroit].

Sends thanks for booklets provided for a bazaar, and congratulations on his 77th birthday.

ArchivalResource: 4 p. Holograph signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34368426 View

ILGWU Records, 1884-2006, bulk 1923-1995.

Title: ILGWU Records, 1884-2006 , bulk 1923-1995.

Archives of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) which document the history of the most significant labor union representing workers in the women's garment industry in the United States and Canada.

ArchivalResource: 2,527 linear feet.

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/KCL05780.xml View

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. ILGWU. Miscellany, 1895-1992.

Title: ILGWU. Miscellany, 1895-1992.

This collection consists of letters, printed material, and case files from various departments and individuals within the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Included are files of John A. Dyche, Harry Greenberg, Herman Grossman, Louis Hyman, Charles Jacobson, Edward Kramer, Charles Kreindler, Charles Baker, Rose Pesotta, and Harry Uviller.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64059117 View

Aliotto, Marie. Garment workers.

Title: Garment workers.

Presents oral histories of 19 women who worked in the garment industry starting in the first third of the 20th century and who were involved in their respective unions, particularly the ACWA (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) and ILGWU (International Ladies Garment Workers Union). They worked mainly in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Eight of the women who worked in Chicago and were involved in the ACWA there participated in the Women's Local, 275, one of the few autonomous women's locals in the country.

ArchivalResource: 75 compact discs (approx. 100 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62097482 View

Pesotta, Rose, 1896-. Letter, 1928 Nov. 7 [New York?] to "Dear Comrade" [n.p.].

Title: Letter, 1928 Nov. 7 [New York?] to "Dear Comrade" [n.p.].

Concerns the financial condition of Road to Freedom and methods of meeting the problems, including the mailing of the conference minutes.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. Typescript (mimeograph) signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34369040 View

Pacific Street Films Photographs, Bulk, 1940-1959, 1919-1980, (Bulk circa 1950-1959)

Title: Pacific Street Films Photographs Bulk, 1940-1959 1919-1980, (Bulk circa 1950-1959)

Pacific Street Films produced several films on anarchism, including Free Voice of Labor--The Jewish Anarchists (1980), and Anarchism in America (1982). The collection contains images collected by PSF in the course of making these films, including photographs of Rose Pesotta, Mollie Steimer, Rudolph Rocker and other anarchists, and of anarchist gatherings, including picnics hosted by the newspaper the Frei Arbiter Stimme, the Free Society Group of Chicago, the Mohegan Colony at Crompond, New York, and of students at the residential labor union training school, Commonwealth College in Mena, Arkansas.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear feet

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/photos_046/photos_046.html View