ILGWU. Upper South Department records, 1937-1971.

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ILGWU. Upper South Department records, 1937-1971.

Contains records of the Upper South Department of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, including correspondence, agreements, financial statements, and many files on joint boards, local unions, and conferences in the region. Joint Boards of Baltimore, Cleveland, and New York City are represented in the records of the Upper South Department. Locals represented in this subseries include: 4 (Baltimore, MD), 23-25 (New York, NY), 62 (New York, NY), 91 (New York, NY), 106 (Baltimore, MD), 110 (Baltimore, MD), 201 (Norfolk, VA), 236 (Appomattox, VA), 239 (Baltimore, MD), 247 (Rockwood, PA), 248 (Hebron and Sharpton, MD), 256 (Thurmont, MD), 260 (Pirnceton, WV), 264 (Grafton, WV), 267 (Glen Rock, PA), 293 (Portsmouth, VA), 312 (Harrisburg, PA), 316 (York, PA), 319 (Baltimore, MD), 327 (Baltimore, MD), 328 (Kokomo, IN), 362 (Baltimore, MD), 373 (Petersburg, MD), 393 (Westminster, MD), 400 (Roanoke, VA), 400, 413, 402 (Bristol, VA), 406 (Arlington, VA), 416 (Clarksburg, WV), 419 (Lynchburg, VA), 420 (Huntington, WV), 422 (Point Pleasant, WV), 425 (Martingsburg, WV), 430 (Martinsville, WV), 434 (Cumberland, MD), 435 (Hagerstown, MD), 438 (Winchester, VA), 464 (Buchanan, VA) , 474 (Marion, VA), 504 (Crewe, VA), 561 (Bedford, VA), and 585 (Cambridge, MD).

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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. Baltimore Joint Board.

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Upper South Dept.

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The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was founded in New York City in 1900 by mostly Socialist immigrant workers who sought to unite the various crafts in the growing women's garment industry. The union soon reflected changes in the sector and rapidly organized thousands of unskilled and semi-skilled women, mostly Jewish and Italian young immigrants. Exemplifying the “new unionism,” the ILGWU led two of the most widespread and best-known industrial strikes of the early Tw...