Manuscript Division
Catalog Record
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These letterbooks of outgoing correspondence span the years 1883-1925 and are an indispensable source for studying the development of the American labor movement. Principally written by Samuel Gompers and to a lesser degree William Green, John McBride, and James Duncan, the letters deal with every aspect of the trade union movement. Microfilm edition available.

Manuscript Division
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Hill was a civil rights activist, educator, author, and NAACP labor secretary. He published No Harvest for the Reaper; The Story of the Migratory Agricultural Worker in the United States and Black Labor and the American Legal System, Race, Work, and the Law. Files in the series relate to trade unions such as the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the Textile Workers Union of America, and the United Packinghouse Workers of America, as well as to large economic sectors such as agriculture and the building trades, and industries such as aviation, electrical and communications, entertainment, paper making, petroleum and chemical, hospitality, maritime, and steel. The largest file documents Hill's effort to address ingrained patterns of racial discrimination in the building trade unions through “hometown plans” such as the Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia plans that aimed to establish affirmative action goals in the selection of minorities for union apprenticeship programs and in the hiring of a greater number of qualified minority craftsmen.

Manuscript Division
There is a guide Papers of the Women's Trade Union League and its principal leaders : guide to the microfilm edition in the Microform & Electronic Resources Center.

Manuscript Division
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The Women's Trade Union League was a U.S. organization formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions. The collection is composed of correspondences, reports, speeches, notes, and printed matter, including minutes of meetings, proceedings of national conventions and international congresses of working women, biographical material on the league's officers, and correspondence between local and national leagues.

Microform & Electronic Resources Center
Collections Guide External
Collections Guide [PDF, 791 KB] External
Gertrude M. Tuckwell (1861-1951) was a British trade unionist, social worker and author. Documents collected by Tuckwell: reports and comments on factory bills, documents relating to lead poisoning, industrial law cases, regulations, sweating and related subjects; documents concerning the Women's Trade Union League 1895-1918; documents concerning conferences on women's labor; copies of publications by Tuckwell; and press clippings concerning Tuckwell.
(MicRR guide no.: 95)

Microform & Electronic Resources Center
The Women's Labour League was founded in 1906 as a broadly based feminist group with representation from the Labour Party, trade unions, and socialist and cooperative societies. It made investigations, published a newsletter for many decades, and served as a pressure group in such areas as women's work and its regulation and safety; maternal and child care; education; housing; and institutional care for the elderly and disabled. In 1918, the Women's Labour League disappeared as a separate organization and became an integrated part of the Labour Party, as the Labour Party's Women's Organisation. It continued under this name until 1977, when separate proceedings for the Women's Organisation were taken over by the Labour Party.
Section 1: conference proceedings of the Women's Labour League, 1st through 12th and annual reports, 1906-1917 (fiches 1-10); Section 2: conference reports of the Labour Party Women's Organisation, 1st through 53rd, 1919-1977 (fiches 11-71); Section 3: The League Leaflet, 1911-1913 (fiches 72-75); Section 4: The Labour Woman, v. 1-61, 1913-1971 (fiches 76-247).
An introduction and table of contents to the microfiches appears on fiche 1 and is repeated at the beginning of section 3 (fiche 72).