Box 46

Scope and Contents of the Sub-Series From the Sub-Series: Subseries A includes label agreements and contracts between UGWA and individual companies, filed alphabetically by the name of the company. Many of the contracts include correspondence relevant to the contract and lists of rates of pay for each operation required to make a specific garment. Frequently the contracts also include notes, presumably attached to the contracts by union officials, indicating instances of violations of union policy regarding rates of pay, holiday compensation, and...

Scope and Contents of the Sub-Series From the Sub-Series: Subseries B, like Subseries A, includes label agreements and contracts between UGWA and individual companies. In Subseries B the companies are filed alphabetically by state. Many of the contracts also include correspondence, lists of rates of pay, and additional notes by union officials. Notable documents in the period of the 1940s are letters between companies and the National and Regional Labor War Boards, in which petitions are made for increases in wages, approval of piece rates, and...