Denver, CO

This series contains some files relating to industry research and information from the first half of the twentieth century. This information includes files on the garment industry in different parts of the country, the activities of various companies that employed UGWA workers (i.e., J. C. Penny), constitutions, correspondence, union label issues, and the Hawes Cooper Bill (a law stating that convict labor of one state could not compete with convict labor in another state). The rest of this series is made of time study / time and motion research files for the garment industry. Time study was the process of determining wages for piecework based on how quickly workers could get a task done. The time study items here include time study sheets sorted by job, piece rate wage lists, and a few time study reports done for individual companies. The series was left in original order.