Series 1. Arbitration and mediation files, part a, 1910-1953.

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Series 1. Arbitration and mediation files, part a, 1910-1953.

Consist of documentation (decisions, correspondence, agreements, miscellaneous materials and clippings) relative to Abelson's arbitration and mediation cases. Include cases in the following industries: Files for the bakery industry (1912-1953) include: arbitration awards and decisions for the Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union of America (BCWIU) on issues of non-union employees, vacation pay, holiday pay, and welfare payments. Major correspondents include J.L. Magnes; Jacob Schiff; Charles Iffland (secretary, BCWIU); Charles Solomon (lawyer); William Pechter (Pechter Baking Company); Jacob Walters (acting secretary, Trade Board of Control and Arbitration); L. Korman (secretary, BCWIU); and Harold Baker (secretary, manager, United Retail Bakery Employees' Union, Local 150). Agreements involve Bakery Wagon Drivers' Union; Speciality Bakery Owners of America; Joint Council of Jewish Bakers; BCWIU: Bread Salesmen's Union; Hebrew Master Bakers' Association; United Retail Bakery and Confectionery Employees' Union; and Metropolitan Bakers and Lunchroom Association. Also minutes, financial reports and statements of the Trade Board of Control and Arbitration, and clippings. Files for the belt industry (1935-1940) include decisions on the issues of dismissal, wage adjustment, work distribution, and the assignment of work outside classification. Files for the children's dress industry (1914-1940) include arbitration awards and decisions for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) on issues of holidays, vacations, unionization, contracting out, piece work and workweek. Major correspondents include Henry L. Moskowitz (impartial chairman); Louis Posner (executive director, Children's Dress, Cotton Dress and Sportswear Contractors' Association, Inc.); Jacob E. Hurwitz (lawyer); Charles Baker (labor director, Industrial Association of Juvenile Apparel Manufacturers, Inc.); Harry Greenberg (manager, secretary, Children's Dress, Infants' Wear, House Dress and Bathrobe Makers' Union); and William Gellin (lawyer). Agreements involve ILGWU; Children's Dressmakers' Union; Children's Dress Manufacturers' Association; Children's Dress, House Dress and Bathrobe Makers' Union; Cotton Apparel and Robe Producers' Association Inc.; Children's Dress and Cotton Dress and Sportswear Contractors' Association, Inc.; Infants' and Children's Coat Association, Inc.; Joint Board of Cloak, Suit, Skirt and Reefer Makers' Union; United Infants' and Children's Wear Association; Children's Dress Contractors' Association, Inc.; Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters; and Guild of Designers, Inc. Files of the cloak and suit industry (1910-1949) include decisions for the United Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' Association; and Cloak and Suit Protocol Decisions of the Committee on Immediate Action on issues of wage rates, wage adjustments, piece work, and work week. Major correspondents include: Morris Silberman (president, Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers), S. Polakoff (district manager, Cloak and Skirt Makers' Union of New York); L.E. Rosenfield (chairman, Executive Board of the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' Protective Association); and R. Sadowsky (manufacturer of coats and suits). Agreements involve ILGWU; the Wrapper, Kimono and House Dress Makers' Union; Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters' Union; Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers (Protective Association, Joint Council, and Industrial Board); Joint Board of Cloak, Skirt and Reefer Makers' Union; Joint Board of Cloak Makers' Union of the City of New York; Unemployment Insurance Fund of the Dress Industry of the City of New York; Wholesale Dress Manufacturers' Association; and Association of Dress Manufacturers. Also miscellaneous subject files.

Series 1, parts a, b, c, and d: 34.6 linear ft.

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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...

United Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' Association.

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Children's Dress and House Dress Workers' Union.

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Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union of America.

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Silberman, Morris.

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Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' Protective Association.

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Moskowitz, Henry, 1880-....

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Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920

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Banker; m. Theresa Loeb; member of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; director of Central Trust Co., Western Union Telegraph Co., and Wells Fargo; president of Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids; founded Jewish Theological Seminary and Semitic Museum, Harvard Univ.). From the description of Jacob Henry Schiff papers, 1900-1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 436305005 Jewish-American banker and philanthropist. From the description of Correspondence ; 1914-1920 [microform]. ...

Children's Dress, Infants' Wear, Housedress and Bathrobe Makers' Union.

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Pechter, William S., 1936-

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Industrial Association of Juvenile Apparel Manufacturers, inc.

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Children's Dress, Cotton Dress and Sportswear Contractors' Association, inc.

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Cloak and Skirt Makers' Union of New York.

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Iffland, Charles

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Rosenfield, L. E.

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Polakoff, Serge

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Magnes, J. L. (Judah Leon), 1877-1948.

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Abelson, Paul, 1878-1953

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Arbitrator, mediator and impartial chairman. From the description of Series 1. Arbitration and mediation files, part a, 1910-1953. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63541137 From the description of Paul Abelson. Series 1. Arbitration and mediation files, part d, 1913-1941. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63540857 Lawyer, educator, social worker, and labor arbitrator, of New York, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1892...