Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 125 Records, 1928-1984
17 boxes (8 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 1
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 125 Records
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 125 Records, 1928-1984
17 boxes (8 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 1 Abstract:
Based in New Haven, Connecticut, Local 125 was a chapter of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) that worked to improve wages and hours of work, to increase job security, to provide facilities for advancing cultural, educational, and recreational interests of its members, and to strengthen the labor movement. Includes constitution, by-laws, minutes, contracts, piece rate schedules, accounts, subject files, scrapbooks, newsclippings, printed materials, photographs and a phonograph record that document the history of Local 125 from its founding in 1933 to 1984, when the Local office in New Haven was closed. Included also are correspondence and case materials pertaining to grievance and arbitration proceedings (access restrictions apply).
Terms of Access and Use: Access restrictions apply to correspondence and case materials pertaining to grievance and arbitration proceedings. The collection is open for research. Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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