International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Chicago Joint Board
Morris Bialis served as the manager for the Chicago Joint Board beginning in 1922, and Morris A. Goldstein served as his long time secretary-treasurer. In December 1939, the Chicago cloakmakers', one of the oldest groups in the ILGWU, celebrated their fiftieth anniversary, and the Chicago Joint Board celebrated 25 years. During the 1940s, the Joint Board consisted of five locals, Locals 5 (Cloak Operators), 18 (Cloak and Dress Pressers), 59 (Cloak Finishers), 81 (Cloak and Dress Cutters), and 100 (Dressmakers), the encompassed the cloak and silk dress trades. In 1946, the Joint Board purchased a six story building in the Loop to continue to be an instrumental player in labor and community affairs of Chicago.
The Chicago Health Center was opened in 1955, and in 1957, Bialis, who had also been appointed director of the Midwest Region in 1934, was aided by assistant director Harold Schwartz. At the end of the 1950s and beginning of the 1960s, the numbers of retirees increased the need for new workers to maintain payments of benefits in the face of a shrinking garment industry in Chicago. As the Chicago market continued to decline through the 1960s and union membership decreased, by 1974, Local 18 and 59 merged with Local 5, Local 54 merged with Local 76, and Local 208 and 212 merged with Local 261. After 54 years of service, Morris Bialis retired from his role as Joint Board manager in February 1976 (he had been elected an ILGWU vice-president in 1928). Harold Schwartz became the new manager of the Joint Board, as well as Midwest Region director, and Lou Montenegro named assistant director. In November 1978, Schwartz announced his retirement and assistant director Lou Montenegro was elected to succeed him as the regional manager as well as the manager of the Chicago Joint Board. As Chicago saw a rise in sweatshops during the 1980s, Montenegro led the Joint Board.
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creatorOf | International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Chicago Joint Board. ILGWU. Chicago Joint Board records, 1914-1975. | Cornell University Library | |
referencedIn | International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Chicago Joint Board. Scrapbook of Morris A. Goldstein, Secretary-Treasurer of Joint Board. 1930s-1940s. | Cornell University Library | |
referencedIn | International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Western States Region. ILGWU. Western states region records, 1940-1985. | Cornell University Library | |
creatorOf | ILGWU. Chicago Joint Board records, 1914-1975 | Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives |
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