Garment Workers Union. Benjamin Schlesinger, President. Records,
2 linear ft.
Correspondence and subject
Correspondence, form letters, circulars and
subject files relating to Schlesinger's second term as president, June 1914 to
January 1923. Topics covered in these materials include union organizing;
strikes, labor disputes, working conditions, and other labor issues in the
women's garment industry, particularly in New York City; inter-union relations;
relations between manufacturers' associations and the union; efforts by
Schlesinger and others to form an alliance of garment workers' unions;
discussions with foreign garment workers' unions; education for workers in New
York City; and Jewish war relief efforts during World War I.
Language: Collection material in English
Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library