American Federation of Hosiery Workers Records, 1922-1965

Container Title
Subseries: SERIES 12: Negotiations File, 1931-1956, 1958, and n.d.
Physical Description: 5 boxes 
Scope and Content Note

This is a subject file containing correspondence, bulletins, memoranda, briefs, decisions, statistical data, and studies of wages and earnings in the hosiery industry.

Correspondence includes letters of individual employers, of the National Association of Manufacturers, the Labor Mediation Board, the Impartial Chairman, the Wage Tribunal, union organizers, and local branches of the union, written to the international office, or to one another, concerning negotiations for labor contracts. Topics include notices of contract terminations, wage reopening, also settlement of specific problems relating to wages, working conditions, pensions and insurance.

Wages and earnings studies, in box five, were compiled by the Impartial Chairman, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Recovery Administration, and by the union in cooperation with the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Finance and Commerce.

Arrangement of the Materials: Roughly chronological and by topic.
Wage Negotiations
Box   1
Folder   1
1931-1942
Box   1
Folder   2
1945-1946
Box   1
Folder   3
Wage Schedules, 1947-1949
Box   1
Folder   4
Letters to Manufacturers, 1948
Box   1
Folder   5
National Labor Agreement, 1949-1951
Box   1
Folder   6
Lists of Manufacturers, 1949-1951
Box   1
Folder   7
Wage Tribunals I & II, Inequities, 1949-1951
Box   1
Folder   8
Contract Negotiations, 1949
Box   1
Folder   9
Letters to Cyrus Ching, Federal Mediator, 1949
Box   1
Folder   10
Letters to Manufacturers re: Insurance, 1949
Box   2
Folder   1
Wage Negotiations, 1950
Box   2
Folder   2
Wage Reopening, 1950
Box   2
Folder   3
Wage Tribunal, 1950
Box   2
Folder   4
Wage Tribunal, Inequities, 1950
Box   2
Folder   5
Wage Tribunal, Decisions, 1950
Box   3
Folder   1
Tribunal II, Rates and Schedules, 1950
Box   3
Folder   2
Lists of Hosiery Manufacturers, 1951
Box   3
Folder   3
Independent Contract Supplement, 1951
Box   3
Folder   4
Contract Negotiations, 1951
Box   3
Folder   5
Tribunal II, Inequities, 1951
Box   3
Folder   6
Contract Negotiations, 1951-1953
Box   3
Folder   7
N.L.R.B. File, 1952-1953
Box   3
Folder   8
Seamless Fixers' Work Load, 1952-1953
Box   3
Folder   9
Wage Schedule Negotiations, 1952-1953
Box   4
Folder   1
Wage Tribunal Award, 1953
Box   4
Folder   2
Contract Correspondence, 1953
Box   4
Folder   3
Contract Negotiations, 1954-1955
Box   4
Folder   4
List of Mills and Locations, 1955
Box   4
Folder   5
Contract Correspondence, 1955
Box   4
Folder   6
Machinery and Mills Survey, 1955-1956
Box   4
Folder   7
Conference on Changing Character of American Industry, 1958
Box   4
Folder   8
Seamless Hosiery Mills in Pennsylvania, no date
Box   4
Folder   9
Study: Earnings of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers in Union Mills in 1932, 1933 June
Box   4
Folder   10
Supplement: Earnings of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers in Union Mills 1934 and 1935, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX
Box   5
Folder   1
Earnings of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers in Union Mills 1934 and 1935, 1935 July
Box   5
Folder   2
Office of National Recovery Administration, The Knitting Industries, by W. A. Gill, Frank Prouder, Willis H. Ray, A. H. Barenboim, 1936
Box   5
Folder   3
Earnings of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers in Union Mills, 1938
Box   5
Folder   4
Earnings of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers in Union Mills, 1939
Box   5
Folder   5
Earnings of Commercial Dyeing and Finishing Workers in Union Mills, Philadelphia, 1939
Box   5
Folder   6
Earnings of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers in Union Mills, 1939-1940, Berks County, 1940
Box   5
Folder   7
Earnings of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers in Association Mills, 1942
Box   5
Folder   8
Earnings of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers in Union Mills, 1941
Box   5
Folder   9
Supplement to Wage Study, 1941
Box   5
Folder   10
Earnings of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers in Union Mills, 1943
Box   5
Folder   11
Preliminary Report, Earnings of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers in Mills of the Full-Fashioned Hosiery Manufacturers of America, 1946