Max Zaritsky Papers
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Max Zaritsky (1885-1959) was an officer, and sometime president, of two hat industry unions, the Cloth Hat, Cap, and Millinery Workers' International Union, and its successor, the United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union. The papers include correspondence with labor and industry leaders, clippings, manuscripts, minutes, typescripts of radio addresses and speeches, and memorabilia and printed material covering hat industry union affairs, political and Zionist activities of the labor movement, and the conflict between the American Federation of Labor and the newly formed Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Historical/Biographical Note
Max Zaritsky (1885-1959) was born Petrikov, Russia, emigrated to the U.S., where in 1907 he joined the Cloth Hat, Cap, and Millinery Workers' International Union (CHCMW), later becoming its president, and then subsequently, president, until his retirement in 1950, of the United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union (AFL), formed by the 1934 merger of the CHCMW and the United Hatters of North America. Zaritsky was an advocate of labor-management cooperation to promote the hat industry, a founder of the American Labor Party in 1936, and was active in labor Zionist circles, heading both the American Jewish Trade Union Committee for Palestine and the National Committee for a Leon Blum Colony in Palestine.
Sources:
Max Zaritsky at Fifty. The Story of an Aggressive Labor Leadership (1935).Biographical Dictionary of American Labor (1984).Labor Unions (1977). Includes historical sketches of the various hat industry unions, pp. 139-144.
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The folders are arranged alphabetically.
The files are grouped into one series:
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- I, Max Zaritsky Papers
Scope and Content Note
The papers include correspondence with labor and industry leaders, clippings, manuscripts, minutes, typescripts of radio addresses and speeches, memorabilia and printed material covering hat industry union affairs, political and Zionist activities of the labor movement, and the conflict between the American Federation of Labor and the newly formed Congress of Industrial Organizations.
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Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Tamiment Library has no information about copyright ownership for this collection and is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from it. Materials in this collection, which were created in 1912 to 1959, are expected to enter the public domain in 2080.
Preferred Citation
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Identification of item, date; Collection name; Collection number; box number; folder number;
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transfer from the Rand School Archives, 1963. The accession number associated with this collection is 1963.016
Custodial History
Collection was part of the Rand School Archives, which were transferred to the Tamiment Library in 1963 by members of the People's Education Camp Society, Inc. The accession number associated with this collection is 1963.016.
Separated Material
Several photographs have been separated to the Tamiment Library General Photographs Collection (Photographs 1)
