ILGWU. Benjamin Schlesinger papers, 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...

Iglesias Pantín, Santiago, 1872-1939

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Santiago Iglesias Pantín (February 22, 1872 – December 5, 1939), was a Spanish-born Puerto Rican socialist, trade union activist, and politician. Iglesias is best remembered as a leading supporter of statehood for Puerto Rico and as the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico in the U.S. Congress from 1933 to 1939. Born in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, he left school at age 12 to become a carpenter’s apprentice. Early in his training, he took part in a violent strike, his first act in a lifelong str...

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. ...

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 ...

American Medical Aid for Russia (Organization)

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

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Fitzpatrick, John, ca1737-1791

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Title: 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000834.0x00010d John Fitzpatrick was a merchant of New Orleans and Bayou Manchac, La. From the description of John Fitzpatrick letterbook, 1768-1790. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 156976697 John Fitzpatrick was Secretary of the Louisiana Division of the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia. Based in ...

Humanitarian Cult (Organization)

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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...

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...

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. President's Office

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Jay Mazur was born in New York City on May 21, 1932. A graduate of the ILGWU Training Institute, Mazur began working for the ILGWU at the age of 18, beginning with organizing and educational work with Local 22 in New York City. He was Director of Organization and Education for Local 40, then Director of Organization for Local 23, before becoming Assistant Manager of the newly merged Locals 23 and 25 in 1964. From 1977 to 1983, Mazur was Manager of Local 23-25, the Blouse, Skirt and Sportswear Wo...

Longuet, Jean

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

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Barondess, Joseph

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

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Danish, Max D.

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Max Danish was the editor of the Ladies' Garment Worker, the official organ of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union from 1910 to 1919, then that organ's successor, Justice, from 1919 until his retirement in 1951. He was a graduate of the New York University Law School and author of The World of David Dubinsky. He died on January 11, 1964 at the age of 77. From the description of Max D. Danish, Collected documents, 1946-1964. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record i...

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...

United mine workers of America

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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...

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...

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...

Magnes, Judah Leon, 1887-1948.

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

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

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United Textile Workers.

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

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

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Braff, Bernard

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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) ...

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

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Schlesinger, Benjamin, 1876-1932

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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...

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

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Held, Adolph

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Cahan, Abraham, 1860-1951

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International Clothing Workers' Federation

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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...

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...

Feinberg, Israel, 1886-

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

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Goldman, J. (Jim)

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

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Baroff, Abraham

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

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

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Trachtenberg, Alexander

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

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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...

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

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United Ladies' Tailors Trade Union

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Vladeck, Baruch Charney, 1886-1935.

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Waterproof Garment Manufacturers' Association

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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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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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...

Holt, Hamilton

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Wholesale Dress Manufacturers' Association

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

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United Garment Workers Union of America.

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

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

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