Title: United Garment Workers of America Records
Inclusive Dates: 1897-1995

Creator:

• United Garment Workers of America

Call Number: M2002-161; Tape 1470A

Quantity: 11.4 c.f. (5 archives boxes, 6 record center cartons, and 10 flat boxes) and 7 tape recordings

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of United Garment Workers of America, a labor union organized in 1891 that primarily represented employees in the work clothing industry. In December 1994, its 15,000 members merged with the United Food and Commercial Workers. One of the most thoroughly documented organizing campaigns concerns an attempt to organize Mexican immigrants in El Paso, Texas in 1963. A large quantity of documentation concerns the registration, distribution and sale of labels that identified items as union-made. These records not only document sales to locals, but they also identify many individuals, perhaps home sewers, the majority of whom were women. These records were housed in the International’s New York office and consequently they also include label records of two unidentified New York City and Brooklyn locals.

Language: English

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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.

Acquisition Information

Presented by United Food and Commercial Workers, Washington, D.C. Accession Number: M2002-161

M2002-161 Box   1 Folder   1	Constitution, circa 1957
	Minutes of the General Executive Board
Box   1 Folder   2-4	1912-1913
Box   2 Folder   1-5	1916-1932
Box   3 Folder   1-2	1932-1947
Tape 1470A/1-7	Audio recordings of Board meetings, 1995, February and July Physical Description: 7 cassettes
	Label records
	Shipments to individuals
Box   4 Folder   1-6	1904-1947
Box   5 Folder   1-2	1948-1960
	New York City records
Box   5 Folder   3	Label journal “I”, 1897-1899
Box   5 Folder   4-6	Company sales, 1890-1904
Box   5 Folder   7	Loans to locals and miscellaneous accounts, 1904-1906
Box   5 Folder   8	Brooklyn book, 1901-1902
Box   5 Folder   9	“General auditors' records of labels”, 1897-1902 Physical Description: 2 volumes
	Label sales to locals
Box   5 Folder   10-19	1901-1959
Box   6 Folder   1	1976
Box   6 Folder   2-4	1986-1987
	Label registrations
Box   6 Folder   5	Attorney correspondence
Box   6 Folder   6	Sampled state registration forms, 1932-1970s
	Account books
Box   12	1911-1912, 1912-1914
Box   13	1927-1928
Box   14	1929-1932
Box   15	1932-1936
Box   16	1937-1941
Box   17	1949-1951
Box   18	1951-1953
Box   19	1957
	Subject files
Box   6 Folder   7	AFL-CIO, 1954-1961
Box   6 Folder   8	Advertising sample for 1987 convention program
	Agreements
Box   6 Folder   9	Index
Box   6 Folder   10	Published agreements, 1919, 1920, 1934, 1937
Box   6 Folder   11-14	Unpublished agreements, 1905-1953
	Angelica Uniform Company, St. Louis, Missouri
Box   6 Folder   15-18	General, 1955-1956
Box   6 Folder   19-20	International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) raid, 1959
Box   7 Folder   1-2	National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) case, 1979-1982
Box   7 Folder   3	Blue Bell Manufacturing Company, Oneonta, Alabama, 1978
Box   7 Folder   4	Burnley Shirt Company, Poplarville, Mississippi, 1959-1960
Box   7 Folder   5-6	Cahaba Manufacturing Company, Centreville, Alabama, 1967-1971
Box   7 Folder   7	Cal-Crest Outerwear (raid by Amalgamated Clothing), 1958
Box   7 Folder   8-9	Canada
Box   7 Folder   10	Cherryville Manufacturing Company, Cherryville, Kansas, 1965-1966
Box   7 Folder   11	Clifton Shirt Company, Loveland, Ohio, 1963-1964
	Cowden Manufacturing Company
Box   7 Folder   12	Stanford, Kentucky (raid by Teamsters), 1966
Box   7 Folder   13	Greenville and Beaver Dam, Kentucky, 1969
Box   7 Folder   14	Crane Manufacturing Company, Republic, Missouri, 1970
Box   7 Folder   15-16	Cresco Manufacturing Company (Local 294), Ashland, Ohio, 1981-1982
Box   7 Folder   17-19	Crown Overall Company, 1954-1957
Box   7 Folder   20	Death benefits, 1987-1988
Box   7 Folder   21	Diaper Jeans, Denison, Texas, 1967
Box   7 Folder   22	Directory of active locals
Box   7 Folder   23	Fair share, Wisconsin, undated
Box   7 Folder   24	“Garments manufactured lists”, 1970s
Box   8 Folder   1	“Garments manufactured lists”, 1970s (continued)
Box   8 Folder   2	History of the union label
Box   8 Folder   3	Industrial Garment Manufacturing Company, Erwin, Tennessee, 1966
Box   8 Folder   4	Jay-El Manufacturing Company (Local 429), Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, 1969
Box   8 Folder   5	KWB, Los Angeles, California (AFL-CIO case), 1958
Box   8 Folder   6	Leather Goods … Workers Union, International, 1980-1981
	Lee Company
Box   8 Folder   7	Seymour, Missouri, 1967
Box   8 Folder   8	Napanee, Canada, 1969
Box   8 Folder   9	Local 382 v. McWhorter, 1970
Box   8 Folder   10	Kansas City, Missouri, 1959-1960
Box   8 Folder   11	Branch plants, 1960-1961
Box   8 Folder   12-13	Legal correspondence with counsel Robert A. Wilson, 1951-1966
	Levi Strauss
Box   8 Folder   14	Amarillo, Texas (Local 471), 1965-1971
Box   8 Folder   15	Knoxville, Tennessee (machinists controversy), 1975
Box   8 Folder   16	Maryville, Tennessee (Local 402), 1981
Box   8 Folder   17	Marcus Manufacturing Company, Nowata, Oklahoma, 1971
Box   8 Folder   18	Miscellany
Box   8 Folder   19	B.F. Moore Company, Newport, Vermont, 1970
Box   8 Folder   20	Nast Shirt Company, Bonner Springs, Kansas, 1964
Box   8 Folder   21	Nationwide Uniform Company, Hodgenville, Kentucky, 1970-1971
Box   8 Folder   22	Oak Manufacturing Company, Frackville, Pennsylvania, 1968-1970
Box   8 Folder   23	Pacifica Coast Council, 1970
Box   8 Folder   24	Patton Shirt (Mil Rob Corporation), 1979-1981
Box   8 Folder   25-26	Policy books
Box   9 Folder   1-5	Policy books (continued)
Box   9 Folder   6	Rough Rider Manufacturing Company, Napa, California (ACW raid), 1962
Box   9 Folder   7	Salant & Salant (Local 336), 1967
Box   9 Folder   8	Stewardship training, undated
Box   9 Folder   9	Supplies
Box   9 Folder   10-11	Top Notch Manufacturing Company, El Paso, Texas, Local 284, 1963
Box   9 Folder   12-13	WPA projects, 1938-1939
Box   9 Folder   14	Western states conferences, 1953-1961
	Financial records
Box   9 Folder   15	Accounting miscellany and monthly balances worksheets, 1987-1988
Box   9 Folder   16	Balance sheets, Retirement and Severance Fund, 1982-1985
Box   9 Folder   17	Federal LM2 forms
Box   9 Folder   18	Federal tax forms
Box   9 Folder   19	Financial reports, 1980s
	Financial statements
Box   9 Folder   20	1972-1977, for convention
Box   9 Folder   21	1977-1988
Box   10 Folder   1	Journals
Box   10 Folder   2	Disbursements, 1987-1988
Box   10 Folder   3-4	Receipts, 1985-1988
Box   10 Folder   5	Miscellany
Box   11 Folder   1	Officers
Box   11 Folder   2	Staff insurance, 1985-1986
Box   11 Folder   3	Treasury Department Form 990, 1959-1977
Box   11 Folder   4	Trusteeship reports
Box   11 Folder   5	Wage miscellany
	Cash receipt books
Box   20	July 1959-June 1960
Box   21	June 1960-March 1962