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

Morrison, Frank, 1859-1949

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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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Social reformer; founder of Hull House settlement, Chicago. From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Louis J. Keller, Chicago, 1912 May 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496308 From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Paul M. Angle, Springfield, Ill., 1932 June 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496294 Founder of Hull House in Chicago. From the description of Cor...

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

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The ILGWU Archives were established in 1973 and transferred to the Kheel Center in 1987. From the description of ILGWU. Charles Zimmerman Collection of Radical Pamphlets, 1898-1978. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 748341343 The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the most significant union representing workers in the men's clothing industry, was founded in New York City in 1914 as a breakaway movement from the United Garment Workers. Radic...

Darrow, Clarence S. (Clarence Seward), 1857-1938

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Clarence Seward Darrow, prominent Chicago trial lawyer, was born in Kinsman, Ohio on April 18, 1857. He attended Allegheny College, after which he studied one year at the University of Michigan Law School. He then worked as a lawyer in Youngstown, and was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1878. He practiced in Ohio for nine years, before moving to Chicago, where he practiced privately before being appointed assistant corporation counsel for the City of Chicago. For four years he served as Chi...

La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947

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Fiorello Henry La Guardia (born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia; December 11, 1882 – September 20, 1947) was an American attorney and politician who represented New York in the House of Representatives and served as the 99th Mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945. Known for his irascible, energetic, and charismatic personality and diminutive stature, La Guardia is acclaimed as one of the greatest mayors in American history. Though a Republican, La Guardia was frequently cross-endorsed by other part...

Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924

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Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was President of the American Federation of Labor and a member of the President's First Industrial Conference in 1919. He was a member of the President's Unemployment Conference in 1921. ...

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 44 (Chicago, Ill.)

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Women's Trade Union League

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The Women's Trade Union League was established by Mrs Patterson in 1874. By the 1890s ten London Unions, and over thirty provincial unions were affiliated from Bookbinding, Shirt and Collar Making, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Milinery, Cigar Making Match and Matchbox Making, Ropemaking, Weaving, Laundry, Boot and Shoe Making, Silk Working, Upholstery, Lace Making, Pottery, Paper Making and Shop Working. The League was absorbed into the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1921. From the gui...

Cahan, Abraham, 1860-1951

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Danish, Max D.

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 23-25 (New York, N.Y.)

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Locals 23 and 25 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), as well as the local resulting from their merger, Local 23-25, also known as the Blouse, Skirt, and Sportswear Workers' Union, were based in New York, New York. Local 23 was chartered in 1903; Local 25 was chartered in 1905. From the description of ILGWU. Local 23-25 records, 1972-1994. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63906823 From the description of ILGWU. Local 23-25 records, 19...

Barondess, Joseph

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 41 (New York, N.Y.)

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 5 (Chicago, Ill.)

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 37 (Cleveland, Ohio)

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Vladeck, Baruch Charney, 1886-1935.

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American National Red Cross

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American charitable organization. From the description of American National Red Cross records, 1906-1995. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867267 Historical Note The American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization led by volunteers and guided by its Congressional Charter and the Fundamental Principals of the International Red Cross Movement. The Federal Charter states it is a nonprofit, tax-exempt, charitable organizat...

Marshall, Louis, 1856-1929

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American Jewish communal leader, lawyer. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1900-1929]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122516821 Lawyer, civic and communal leader, civil rights advocate, labor union meditator, and philanthropist, of New York, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1891-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70925069 Prominent Jewish-American lawyer and philanthropist. From the description of Correspondence, 1916-1929 [microform...

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 34 (Bridgeport, Conn.)

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Hillman, Sidney, 1887-1946

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Tom Darcy was born in Brokklyn, NY in 1932. He received his art education at the school of Visual Arts in New York. In 1958 he began his editorial cartooning with Newsday on Long Island. In 1970, Darcy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his incisive cartoons of the Vietnam War and racial discrimination. He won many awards in 1970's, some of these were: Best Cartoon on Foreign Affairs in 1970 & 1973, Meeman Conservation Award in 1972 & 1974 as well as the National Headliners' Club award i...

Feinberg, Israel

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Benjamin Schlesinger.

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Benjamin Schlesinger was born December 25, 1876, in Krakai, Lithuania, in what was then Russia, the son of Nechemiah and Judith Schlesinger, and attended the local Cheyder. His grandfather, Simcha, was Rabbi in Racinn, Lithuania. His father died when he was four and his mother some years later in 1909. He emigrated with an older brother to this country in 1891, settling in Chicago, and became an American citizen in that city on March 19, 1898. He was married to Rose Schenhause on Au...

United Garment Workers Union of America.

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Waterproof Garment Manufacturers' Association

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 32 (Winnipeg, Man.)

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American Medical Aid for Russia (Organization)

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United mine workers of America

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Thomas Norman Mattoon, 1884-1968

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Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884-1968), was a leading American socialist, pacifist, author, and six-time presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket, between 1928 and 1948. Born in Marion, Ohio, he was a graduate of Princeton University, attended Union Theological Seminary, where he became a socialist, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1911. Thomas opposed the United States' entry into the First World War, a position that earned him the disapproval of many in his soci...

Magnes, Judah Leon, 1887-1948.

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 30 (Cincinnati, Ohio)

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Goldman, J. J.

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Schlesinger, Benjamin, 1876-1932

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Pinchot, Amos, 1873-1944

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Lawyer and publicist. From the description of Amos Pinchot papers, 1856-1945 (bulk 1909-1942). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81081399 Biographical Note 1873 Born, Paris, France 1897 B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. circa 1898 St...

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 28 (Seattle, Wash.)

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 38 (New York, N.Y.)

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Local 38 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), also known as the Ladies Tailors' Theatrical Costume and Alteration Workers Union or the Theatrical Workers' Union, was based in New York, New York. It was chartered as the Ladies' Tailors' Union in 1909. From the description of ILGWU. Local 38 Minutes, 1915-1958. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63906728 The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was founded in New York...

Longuet, Jean

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Trachtenberg, Alexander

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 49 (Boston, Mass.)

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 50 (New York, N.Y.)

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Holt, Hamilton

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Hillquit, Morris, 1869-1933

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American socialist leader. From the description of Morris Hillquit miscellanea, 1924-1934. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871697 Morris Hillquit (1896-1933) was a socialist leader, lawyer, author and prominent theoretician of the Socialist Pary. He ran twice for mayor of New York City and five times for the House of Representatives, always unsuccessfully. From the guide to the Morris Hillquit Papers, 1906-1959, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives) ...

Braff, Bernard

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Bruère, Robert W. (Robert Walter), 1876-1964

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 22 (New York, N.Y.)

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Local 22 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), also known as the Dressmakers' Union, was chartered in December 1920 and based in New York, New York. From the description of ILGWU. Local 22. Israel Breslow papers, 1913-1981. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 239634634 From the description of ILGWU. Local 22 minutes, 1932-1972. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63906709 Harry Uviller (1897-1973) was appointed impa...

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 8 (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Baroff, Abraham

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Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Director of Henry Street Settlement in New York City. Miss Wald retired from active directorship in 1932. From the guide to the Lillian D. Wald Papers, 1895-1936, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940), a public health nurse and social worker in New York City on the Lower East Side, was a pioneer in American social work and public health. She founded the Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service of...

Hourwich, Isaac A. (Isaac Aaronovich), 1860-1924

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Untermyer, Samuel, 1858-1940

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Lawyer and civic and communal leader. From the description of Papers, 1912-1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70947168 ...

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 35 (New York, N.Y.)

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Local 35 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), also known as the Coat, Suit, Sportswear and Allied Garment Pressers Union, was chartered in 1903 and based in New York, New York. From the description of ILGWU. Local 35 records, 1927-1977. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63906743 The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was founded in New York City in 1900 by mostly Socialist immigrant workers who sought to unite th...

United Textile Workers.

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New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Council of Conciliation in the Cloak and Suit Industry

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Trades Union Congress. Education and Social Affairs Department

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The Trades Union Congress is a voluntary association of trade unions which was formed in Manchester in 1868. It forms the largest pressure group in the United Kingdom and works to improve the rights and conditions of working people. In achieving its aims the TUC has played a role both in many Government organisations and in the political wing of the Labour movement. Such a history has resulted in its archives being a rich source for the study of the political, economic and social hi...

International Clothing Workers' Federation

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 48 (New York, N.Y.)

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Local 48 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), also known as the Italian Cloakmakers' Union, was chartered by members of Local 1 and Local 35 in 1916 and based in New York, New York. From the description of ILGWU. Local 48. Executive Board minutes, 1920-1974. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 261384031 The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was founded in New York City in 1900 by mostly Socialist immigrant workers...

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 21 (Chicago, Ill.)

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Humanitarian Cult (Organization)

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Held, Adolph

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Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' Protective Association (New York, N.Y.)

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Wholesale Dress Manufacturers' Association

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Fitzpatrick, John

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Epithet: Colonel British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001161.0x0000f4 ...

Lee, Algernon

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Algernon Lee was a socialist, educator and New York City alderman. After attending the University of Minnesota in the early 1890s, Lee worked as a political organizer for the Socialist Labor Party and served as editor of several socialist publications. In 1909 Lee became the Director of Education at the Rand School of Social Science. He held this position until his death in 1954. Lee was also an instructor in economics and American history at the Rand School. On the New York City Bo...

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 52 (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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American Federation of Labor

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Labor organization. From the description of American Federation of Labor records, 1883-1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980267 ...

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 33 (Bridgeport, Conn.)

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 43 (Worcester, Mass.)

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 39-40 (New Haven, Conn.)

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 45 (New York, N.Y.)

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United Ladies' Tailors Trade Union

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Wise, Stephen Samuel, 1874-1949

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Stephen Samuel Wise was born in Budapest, Hungary, and came to the United States the following year. He graduated with honors from Columbia University and in 1893 he was ordained in Austria "The People's Rabbi," as Wise would later be known, developed his deep concern for the less fortunate at an early age. Wise fought for housing projects, the abolition of child labor, the improvement of working conditions, securing rights for female workers and equal rights for African Americans. He founded th...