International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
International Ladies Garment Workers' Union San Francisco Joint Board records, part 1
Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0040
Abstract
Correspondence, minutes, wage information, union bulletins and financial records, including arbitration reports and investigations of suspected employer violations and union official fraud. Also included are a small sampling of lists of job titles and wage rates and a number of wage adjustment petitions of individual employees.
Dates:
1931-1947
Sue Ko Lee oral history
Item
Identifier: larc-oh-lee
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with Sue Ko Lee conducted by Judy Yung. Sue Ko Lee was a participant in the 1938 National Dollar Stores garment worker strike. This strike was the first labor organizing in San Francisco's Chinatown, eventually breaking the colorline that had kept Chinese workers from jobs outside Chinatown. Lee later became the first Chinese American business agent in the garment worker union.
Dates:
1989 October 26
Sue Ko Lee scrapbook on Chinese Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Item — Box 1
Identifier: larc-srp-0011
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook belonging to Sue Ko Lee, a button hole machine operator at the National Dollar Store garment factory in San Francisco's Chinatown, and member of the Chinese Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (CLGWU), Local 341. Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, bulletins and photographs pertaining to the CLGWU, mostly concerning the strike at the National Dollar Store/Golden Gate Manufacturing in 1938. Contains a few images of Sue Ko Lee, and International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
Dates:
1937-1938