| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Beryl Peppercorn Papers
| | | | Creator: | Peppercorn, Beryl | | | | Dates: | 1924-1969 | | | | Abstract: | Beryl Peppercorn (1892-1969) was a Cleveland, Ohio, labor leader who served as manager of the Cleveland Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (1922-1958). He was a co-founder of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America with Frank Rosenblum in 1914. By 1935, the ACWA had negotiated contracts at most of the men's clothing stores in Cleveland, making it one of the largest labor unions in the area. He also co-founded the Cleveland Industrial Union Council, the local affiliate of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The collection consists of loose papers, pamphlets, and scrapbooks containing broadsides, pamphlets, programs, letters, newspaper clippings and telegrams relating to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and its activities in Ohio. | | | | Call #: | MS 3388 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Peppercorn, Beryl, 1892-1969. | Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Cleveland Joint Board. | Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective bargaining -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Printz-Biederman Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Printz-Biederman Company | | | | Dates: | 1914-1957 | | | | Abstract: | The Printz-Biederman Company was a Cleveland, Ohio, coat manufacturing company established in 1893 by Moritz Printz, his sons Michael and Alexander, and his son-in-law Joseph Biederman. The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union tried to organize its employees in the 1930s. It closed in the 1970s. The collection consists of minutes, reports, agreements, correspondence, historical sketches, and publications relating to employee representative bodies which operated in the plant, and letters, telegrams and other writings to and from Abraham Katovsky and David Dubinsky of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union Also includes catalogs and advertisements of the company's clothing. | | | | Call #: | MS 3870 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Printz-Biederman Company (Cleveland, Ohio). | Printz-Biederman Company (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Catalogs. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Catalogs. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective bargaining -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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