Frances Perkins: Textile and Garment Unions

5619 Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America records, 1914-1980, 1920-1950 (bulk)

Correspondence, clippings, minutes, organizing leaflets, photographs, speeches, phonographs, scrapbooks, and organizational records documenting the founding, growth, history and development of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; the activities of its officers and other leading officials; its organizing activities; and its administration.

Boxes 31, 76, 82, 104, 142, 165, and 169 contain materials relating to Frances Perkins work in the labor department. Correspondence with administrative staff concerning child labor, minimum wage, Walsh Healey Act, old age security, textile workers organizing drive and unemployment insurance, Black workers and the "Black Bill."

5676 Guide to the International Fur and Leather Workers Union Records, 1913-1966

The records, 1913-1955, comprise General Executive Board minutes, administrative records, local union correspondence, and papers of union officers. Well documented are the union's organizing efforts, the internal struggles against corruption, and the radical activities of its members. Much material pertains to the effects of conservative pressures on its leaders - particularly Ben Gold - to renounce their radical persuasion.

Box 13, Folder 26 includes a correspondence with attachments to Frances Perkins about the deportation of Dominick Sallitto and Vincent Ferrero.