ILGWU. Legal Department records. 1921-1977.

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ILGWU. Legal Department records. 1921-1977.

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This collection contains correspondence, memoranda, financial reports, and printed material relating to the establishment of the ILGWU's cooperative housing in New York City, as well as research into similar projects elsewhere. Also included in this collection are files on the Ladies' Garment Workers' Center in New York City, arbitration regarding faulty design and construction of Unity House in the Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania, and contract negotiations in 1979. Also, this collection contains documentation of the ILGWU's legal activities relating to the regulation of homework and the reform of immigration law. Also included are correspondence, memoranda, notes, and legal documents (such as depositions, trial transcripts, and briefs) relating to the Kellwood Company's suit against the ILGWU, the ILGWU and Marlene Industries' proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, Violetta Putterman's case against the Knitgood Workers' Union Local 155, Thomas Rosario et al.'s case against the Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters' Union Local 10, and miscellaneous other cases.

14 linear feet.

Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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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...

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Legal Dept.

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