United Garment Workers of America Records, 1897-1995

Scope and Content Note

The collection includes a constitution and a history of the union’s label; minutes (mainly 1912-1947); wage scale agreements and correspondence with the Union Made Garment Manufacturers Association (1905-1952); administrative policy books; scattered financial records; and subject files concerning WPA sewing projects, southern organizing campaigns involving companies such as the Lee Company and Levi Strauss, and raids by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and other unions. The tape recordings are proceedings of two 1995 meetings of the General Executive Board.