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International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Benjamin Schlesinger, President. Records, 1914-1923.

Title: International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Benjamin Schlesinger, President. Records, 1914-1923.

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; discussions with foreign garment workers' unions; education for workers in New York City; and Jewish war relief efforts during World War I.

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National Women's Trade Union League of America Records on Microfilm, 1903-1950

Title: National Women's Trade Union League of America Records on Microfilm, 1903-1950

The records of the National Women's Trade Union League of America (NWTUL) span the lifetime of the organization from the first meeting in Boston in 1903 to the last bulletin of its official organ, LIFE AND LABOR, announcing the termination of the League's national charter in 1950. The records consist of correspondence, memoranda, speeches, clippings, notes, printed matter, and miscellaneous other items. The NWTUL's administrative operations are well documented in the headquarters records. Its policies and activities are recorded in the minutes of the Executive Board meetings and in the correspondence. Most of the letters and memoranda are from the various national League secretaries, particularly Elisabeth Christman, who held the position from 1921 to 1950. There is, as well, correspondence from various members of both the national and local Leagues, especially from the New York, Boston, and Chicago branches. Many of the local League members also served as officers and/or Executive Board members of the national League and are represented in the headquarters records. Included in this group are Margaret Dreier Robins, Mary Morton Kehew, Jane Addams, Rose Schneiderman, Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, Melinda Scott, Agnes Nestor, and Mary E. Dreier. Interspersed with the materials documenting the activities of the League are financial statements enumerating sources of income and costs of operation. The subject files as well as the headquarters records offer a major source of information concerning the League's goal of organizing women wage workers into trade unions. There is considerable material on the early history of the League in the historical data file. Many of the files on individual members contain biographical information, and the file on the American Federation of Labor sheds light on the League's relationship to that organization. Here and in the headquarters records is correspondence with Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison, Frank Duffy, and Florence C. Thorne. Both series (headquarters records and subject files) contain documentation of the League's efforts to improve women's working conditions through supporting strikes, particularly in the garment industry, through the use of a training school to develop leadership among women of the working class, and through lobbying for the enactment of protective labor legislation. Issues such as the eight-hour day, a minimum wage, and the establishment of sanitary work areas were the focus of the League's early days. However, its interests broadened in later years to include federal aid to education, civil rights, price control, and social security. Correspondents include Ethel M. Smith, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, Mary Anderson, Alice Henry, and Frances Perkins. The records of the NWTUL also contain proceedings for 10 of the 13 national conventions and mimeographed corrected copies of the proceedings of the three international congresses which the League sponsored.

ArchivalResource: 25 microfilm reels.

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. President's Office. ILGWU. Benjamin Schlesinger papers, 1914-1923.

Title: ILGWU. Benjamin Schlesinger papers, 1914-1923.

Correspondence, form letters, circulars and subject files relating to Schlesinger's term, 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; discussions with foreign garment workers' unions; education for workers in New York City; and Jewish war relief efforts during World War I. Individuals and organizations represented in the general correspondence file include: Jane Addams; American Medical Aid for Russia; the American Red Cross; Abraham Baroff; Joseph Barondess; Bernard Braff; Robert Bruère; the Cloak, Suit & Skirt Manufactuer's Association; Max Danish; Clarence S. Darrow; Israel Feinberg; John Fitzpatrick of the Chicago Federation of Labor; J.J. Goldman; Adolph Held; Henry Hilfers; Sidney Hillman; Hamilton Holt; Humanitarian Cult; Isaac A. Hourwich; Fiorello H. LaGuardia; Algernon Lee; Jean Longuet; Judah L. Magnes; Amos Pinchot; Norman Thomas; Alexander Trachtenberg; B.C. Vladeck; Lillian Wald; Stephen Wise; and the Women's Trade Union League. Significant organizations, individuals and topics represented in the subject files include AFL officials, including letters from Samuel Gompers and Frank Morrison; the British Trades Union Congress; letters from Abraham Cahan of the Jewish Daily Forward; correspondence from Morris Hillquit on union legal matters; and materials on the International Clothing Workers' Federation. Other organizations and individuals in the subject files include letters from Louis Marshall; the Mayor's Council of Conciliation in the Cloak & Suit Industry (New York City); United Garment Workers' Union of America; United Ladies' Tailors Trade Union (London, England); United Mine Workers; United Textile Workers; letters from Samuel Untermyer; the Waterproof Garment Manufacturers' Association; and the Wholesale Dress Manufacturers' Association. The subject files also contain considerable documentation of numerous locals of the International, including Local 8 (San Francisco Cloak Makers' Union), Local 21 (Chicago Cloak Cutters' Union), Local 22 (Dressmakers' Union), Local 23 (Skirt and Cloth Dressmakers' Union), Local 25 (Ladies' Waist and Dressmakers Union), Local 28 (Ladies' Garment Workers, Seattle), Local 30 (Cutters and Trimmers of Cincinnati), Local 32, (Winnipeg, Manitoba), Local 33 (Corset Workers' Union), Local 34 (Corset Cutters Union), Local 35 (Cloak, Skirt and Dress Pressers' Union), Local 37 (Pressers' Union), Local 38 (Ladies' Tailors' and Dressmakers' Union), Local 39-40 (Corset Workers' Union), and Local 41 (Wrapper, Kimono and House Dress Makers' Union). Other locals represented include Local 43 (Ladies' Waist and White Goods Workers' Union), Local 44 (Chicago Cloakmakers' Union), Local 45 (National Alliance of Ladies' Cloaks and Suits Designers), Local 48 (Italian Cloak, Suit and Skirtmakers' Union), Local 49 (Waist, Dress and Petticoat Workers' Union), Local 50 (Misses and Children's Dressmakers' Union), and Local 52 (Los Angeles).

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet.

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Mitchell, John, 1870-1919. Papers, 1885-1919. [microfilm].

Title: Papers, 1885-1919. [microfilm].

The John Mitchell Papers document Mitchell's role in the American labor movement and the evolution of industrial relations in the coal industry.

ArchivalResource: 55 reels of microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86094009 View

Utica Trades Assembly records, 1882-1927.

Title: Utica Trades Assembly records, 1882-1927.

The records include Utica Trades Assembly minutes and other administrative records, financial records and correspondence.

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Buck's Stove & Range Company. Buck's Stove and Range Company vs. American Federation of Labor : legal documents, 1907-1913, bulk 1908-1910.

Title: Buck's Stove and Range Company vs. American Federation of Labor : legal documents, 1907-1913, bulk 1908-1910.

The collection contains legal documents pertaining to the case of Buck's Stove and Range Company vs. the American Federation of Labor, et al., 1907-1913, and a number of documents by the American Anti-Boycott Association. Legal documents filed before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia include: application for a temporary restraining order against the defendants (Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison, and John Mitchell); petition to have defendants ruled in contempt; copies of affidavits filed in court by plaintiff for use in hearing of application for temporary injunction against defendants (1907-1908). Legal documents filed before the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia include an appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; brief and supplemental brief for appellee (Buck's Stove and Range Company); transcript of record of appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Gompers et al., appellants (1908). Finally, legal documents filed before the Supreme Court of the United States, including numerous briefs and supplemental briefs filed in behalf of Buck's Stove and Range Company (1910-1913). Also includes publications by the American Anti-Boycott Association relating to the case, including arguments in support of a guilty ruling in the contempt case against Gompers, Morrison, and Mitchell; arguments in the contempt proceedings in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia; and transcript of the decision finding Gompers, Morrison, and Mitchell guilty of contempt (n.d.).

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

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Illinois State AFL-CIO. Records, 1935-1965.

Title: Records, 1935-1965.

Correspondence, clippings, minutes, reports and pamphlets. Material primarily covers Rueben G. Soderstrom's activities as president of the organization.

ArchivalResource: 54.64 linear ft. (128 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23117789 View

AFL Secretary-Treasurer's Office, Frank Morrison papers

Title: AFL Secretary-Treasurer's Office, Frank Morrison papers

This small collection of papers of Frank Morrison consists of two series, Executive Council Correspondence (1911-1914) and Non-Partisan Political Campaign Committee (1920, 1924), and supplements other existing records that more fully document his responsibilities as Secretary (1897-1936) and Secretary-Treasurer (1937-1939) of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Executive Council Correspondence includes 20 folders of material, arranged chronologically, from May 1911 to April 1914. One folder of Non-Partisan Political Campaign Committee correspondence, 1924, for Colorado, Delaware, Florida and Georgia is also found in Box 1. Two copy books of committee letters, 1920 April- August, are contained in Boxes 2 and 3.

ArchivalResource: 1.50 Linear Feet

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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.

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American Association for Labor Legislation. Series 1, Subseries 2, part b. Correspondence (H-M), 1910-1915. [microform]

Title: Series 1, Subseries 2, part b. Correspondence (H-M), 1910-1915. [microform]

Include correspondence relating to a bill banning the use of white phosphorous in the match industry; to meetings and programs of the Association; to occupational diseases; to accident reporting; to workmen's compensation; to worksite inspection; to child labor; to women's hours of work; to the minimum wage investigation; to lead poisoning; to questions of mediation and compulsory arbitration; to the study of anthrax as an occupational disease; to health insurance; to the revision of the compressed air provisions of the New York State Labor Law; to the Kern Bill; to the National Conference on Unemployment; and to the operation of the Municipal Lodging House, on the Board of which Andrews served. Major and frequent correspondents include L.W. Hatch, Frederick L. Hoffman, Seth Low, Royal Meeker, Thomas J. Parkinson, I.M. Rubinow, and Henry R. Seager. Other individual and organizational correspondents of national significance or who wrote with some frequency include the following with names beginning with letters H-M: Fred S. Hall (secretary, Pennsylvania Child Labor Association); M.B. Hammond (associate professor, Ohio State University); William Hard (writer, EVERYBODY'S); G.W.W. Hanger (U.S. Bureau of Labor); Samuel R. Haythorn; C.R. Henderson; Hamilton Higday; Morris Hillquit; Frederick L. Hoffman (statistician, Prudential Insurance Co.); Reinhard Hohaus; Robert Hunter; Illinois State Federation of Labor; Frances Ingram (Neighborhood House, Louisville, Ky.); International Seamen's Union of America; International Typographical Union; Ethel M. Johnson (Massachusetts Dept. of Labor and Industry); Frederick N. Judson; Marie Kasten (State of Connecticut Industrial Commission); Florence Kelley; Arthur Kellogg; Paul U. Kellogg; Susan M. Kingsbury (director, Women's Educational and Industrial Union; William Kirk; Robert M. La Follette; John Lapp (editor, MODERN MEDICINE); Julia C. Lathrop (Hull House); William Launer (secretary, Glass Bottle Blowers' Association); Max Lazard; F. Lee (U.S. Senate legislative counsel); Don D. Lescohier (secretary, Minnesota Branch AALL); Samuel McCune Lindsay (secretary, National Child Labor Committee); Walter Lippmann; Max O. Lorenz (Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics, Wisconsin); Louisiana Board of Health; Owen R. Lovejoy (general secretary, National Child Labor Committee); and Seth Low. Other correspondents include S.W. McCall; Roswell C. McCrea (associate director, The School of Philanthropy); Mary E. McDowell (University of Chicago Settlement); W.E. McEwen (labor commissioner, Bureau of Labor and Industries, Minnesota); Alexander J. McKelway (secretary for the southern states, National Child Labor Committee); Reuben McKitrick; V.E. Macy (treasurer of New York Branch); W.A. Mahon (Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America); Theodore Marburg; John Martin; Frederick C. Martindale (secretary of state, Dept. of State); Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics; Royal Meeker (U.S. Dept. of Labor); H.V. Mercer (attorney, member, Minnesota Employees' Compensation Commission); Darwin J. Meserole (managing attorney, The Cooperative Law Company); Henry C. Metcalf (Tufts College); John Mitchell (vice-president, A.F. of L.); Wesley C. Mitchell; Anne Morgan; Frank Morrison (A.F. of L.); Edward A. "Ned" Moseley (secretary, Interstate Commerce Commission); Henry Moskowitz (secretary, Society for Ethical Culture); and Hugo Munsterberg (professor).

ArchivalResource: Series 1, Subseries 2, parts a, b, and c: 8 linear ft. (on 9 microfilm reels)

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Duluth Federated Trades and Labor Assembly (Duluth, Minn.). Organization records, 1892-1942.

Title: Organization records, 1892-1942.

Correspondence, reports, accounts, and minutes of this affiliate of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), established in 1887 as the Duluth Federated Trades Assembly.

ArchivalResource: 6.5 cu. ft. (12 boxes, incl. 13 v).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313820232 View

National Women’s Trade Union League of America Records, 1903-1950

Title: National Women’s Trade Union League of America Records 1903-1950

Correspondence, reports, speeches, notes, and printed matter, including minutes of meetings, proceedings of national conventions and international congresses of working women, biographical material on the league's officers, and correspondence between local and national leagues.

ArchivalResource: 7,400 items; 28 containers plus 2 oversize; 11 linear feet; 25 microfilm reels

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Boyd, David Armitage, 1868-1939. Labor papers, 1878-1939.

Title: Labor papers, 1878-1939.

Comprise correspondence, union records, Minutes Report Book for the Detroit assembly of Knights of Labor [i.e. Washington Literary Society], and an essay, "The labor movement of Detroit."

ArchivalResource: 147 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34366797 View

Creel, George, 1876-1953. Correspondence of George Creel [manuscript], 1917-1918.

Title: Correspondence of George Creel [manuscript], 1917-1918.

The collection consists of Creel's correspondence as Chairman of the U.S. Committee on Public Information with Samuel Gompers, Robert Maisel, Frank Morrison, and Chester Maynard Wright. Topics include the American Federation of Labor and the Pan-American Federation of Labor.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel : positive ; 35 mm.

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Utica Trades Assembly. Utica Trades Assembly records, 1882-1927.

Title: Utica Trades Assembly records, 1882-1927.

The minutes (1886-1911 (4 vol.)) reflect the Assembly's activities in both its routine administration and on public issues. These minutes document, for example, the UTA's activities on behalf of a shorter working day (1883-1884, 1906-1907, 1911), its support of state ownership of the railroads and a New York mills strike (1894), and its work on a committee with both the Socialist Labor Party and the Utica Common Council to investigate the possibility of municipal ownership of the city's electric lighting (1895-1896), among other issues. The records include Utica Trades Assembly minutes and other administrative records, financial records and correspondence. The minutes volumes also include the minutes (1892-1895) of the UTA's Label Committee which record its concern over the issue of how to deal with local merchants selling "scab"-produced goods. UTA correspondence (1882-1927) indicates extensive involvement of that organization in local, state and national labor activities. Most numerous are form letters from labor organizations urging national boycotts in support of striking or locked-out workers, usually those involved in disputes over non-recognition of a union. Of interest is an undate) appeal from the International Association of Machinists that labor denounce Thomas A. Edison for having fired all union workers at an Edison plant. UTA response to these national boycotts is indicated by correspondence from businesses in Pennsylvania, Cincinnati and San Francisco involved in the LOS ANGELES TIMES boycott of 1903. The letters are in reply to UTA requests that the companies cancel advertising in the TIMES. Notable direct correspondence with other labor organizations includes letters from A.F. of L. President Samuel Gompers and Secretary Frank Morrison, ordering the UTA to recognize the local Musicians' Union (July and August, 1902), with the UTA maintaining an independent stance, defending its refusal in a lengthy reply. The UTA was independent-minded in its dealings with local businesses as well. In 1892, a report from a special UTA committee, appointed to investigate charges against a hardware merchant, found that merchant fair to labor. At the same time, the UTA cooperated with local and regional labor groups by participating in organizing efforts and special events as well as boycotts. The most significant local boycott call came from the Bakery and Confectionery Workers Utica local, which, in a series of letters from ca.1895 to 1903, described working conditions of non-union bakers, reported on a survey of union-made baked goods in local stores, and asked for a boycott of several large non-union bakeries which were trying to drive out competitors. In addition to minutes and correspondence, the UTA papers contain the Assembly's financial records for the period 1882-1902 which include bills, financial statements, and dues payment records. Of particular interest are the records of defunct locals which belonged to the UTA. These include minutes books (2 vol.) (1898-1902), cash books (2 vol.) (1913-1932), and a membership book (1924-1928) of the Journeymen Barbers' International Union, Local 103; minutes books (2 vol.) (1903-1920) of the International Union of United Brewery Workers, Utica local; a minutes book (1914-1918) of the Utica Building Trades Council; minutes books of the Executive Board (4 vol.) (1885-1891), and a minutes book of the Label Committee (1897-1900) of the Cigar Makers' International Union, No. 7. Other items of interest include a minutes book (1890-1897) of the International Molders and Allied Workers' Union, Local No. 112; minutes books (4 vols.) (1887-1920) of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers, Local 69; and a minutes book (1920-1925) of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association, Local No. 23. Among the events documented in these volumes is a daily record of the month-long strike of Utica painters in 1911.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

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AFL Secretary-Treasurer's Office, Frank Morrison letterbooks

Title: AFL Secretary-Treasurer's Office, Frank Morrison letterbooks

As secretary of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) beginning in 1897, Frank Morrison's outgoing correspondence captures many labor activities in the early time period of the AFL. The correspondence dates from March 30, 1904 to November 27, 1925 covering the majority of Samuel Gompers presidency of the AFL. Each of the 440 unbound volumes is housed individually in boxes. Names of individual correspondents are indexed alphabetically in a set of index card boxes. The index lists the name and the volume number where the name can be found. Please contact the collection curator directly for more information about to the index.

ArchivalResource: 440 Items (Each volume is boxed individually.)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42547 View

Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council. Chicago Federation of Labor records, ca. 1890-1983.

Title: Chicago Federation of Labor records, ca. 1890-1983.

Minutes, 1903-22, of the Chicago Federation of Labor; sound recordings, ca. 1960s-1980s, and files from the office of the president, primarily incoming letters to John Fitzpatrick, 1913-39, and topical files of William Lee, primarily 1963-82. Includes some personal papers of Fitzpatrick as well. Topics include Fitzpatrick's work as an organizer for the American Federation of Labor. The Fitzpatrick material relates to his presidency (1899-1901, 1905-46) of the CFL, work as an organizer for the American Federation of Labor, leadership of the Journeyman Horse Shoers Union, and unsuccessful candidacy for mayor of Chicago on the Labor Party ticket (1919). Topics include labor, Chicago civic and political affairs, the Farmer-Labor Parties of Cook County and of the United States, Brookwood Resident Workers College (Katonah, N.Y.), Chicago and Illinois teachers organizations and school matters, African Americans in labor, William Z. Foster, socialism and communism and their relevance to the labor movement, the independence of Ireland, and Russian relief in the early 1920s. Correspondents include Samuel Gompers, William Green, Frank Morrison, and Edward Nockels. Also present is a microfilm copy of John H. Keiser's dissertation on Fitzpatrick. Also present are files relating to the Federation News and other CFL topics that were gathered by Irwin Klass.

ArchivalResource: 15 sound recordings.6 microfilm reels : neg. ; 35 mm. Camera negative of typed minutes.6 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Reader copy of typed minutes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/717282914 View

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America records, 1914-1980, 1920-1950 (bulk)

Title: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America records

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.

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Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca papers

Title: Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca papers

Correspondence, speeches, clippings, papers and ephemera documenting Dorothy Bellanca's activities in the ACWA.

ArchivalResource: 7 linear ft.

https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/3471690 View