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Summary Information
United Garment Workers of America Records
1897-1995
- United Garment Workers of America
M2002-161; Tape 1470A
11.4 c.f. (5 archives boxes, 6 record center cartons, and 10 flat boxes) and 7 tape recordings
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
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.
English
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