Guide to the Max Zaritsky Papers TAM.006
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive
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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
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Description is in English.
Descriptive Summary
| Creator: | Zaritsky, Max, 1885-1959 |
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| Source: | Rand School of Social Science |
| Title: | Max Zaritsky Papers |
| Dates [inclusive]: | 1912-1959 |
| Dates [bulk]: | 1934-1948 |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| Quantity: | 1.5 Linear Feet (3 boxes) |
| Call Phrase: | TAM.006 |
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.
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.
Arrangement
The folders are arranged alphabetically.
The files are grouped into one series:
Missing Title
- I, Max Zaritsky Papers
Access Points
Subject Names
- Zaritsky, Max, 1885-1959
- Blum, Léon, 1872-1950
Document Type
- Correspondence.
- Speeches.
- Minutes (administrative records)
- Manuscripts for publication.
- Clippings (information artifacts)
Subject Organizations
- Cloth Hat, Cap, and Millinery Workers' International Union
- American Jewish Trade Union Committee for Palestine
- National Committee for a Leon Blum Colony in Palestine
- United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union
- Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
- Rand School of Social Science
Subject Topics
- Labor Zionism -- United States.
- Industrial technicians -x Labor unions -- United States.
- Hat trade -x Labor unions -- United States.
Subject Places
- Palestine.
Administrative Information
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.
Conditions Governing Access
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
Published citations should take the following form:
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.
Separated Material
Several photographs have been separated to the Tamiment Library General Photographs Collection (Photographs 1)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transfer from the Rand School Archives, 1963. The accession number associated with this collection is 1963.016
Container List
Series 1: Max Zaritsky Papers
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
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| Box: 1 | Folder : 1 | AFL and the CIO: Statements, Speeches |
1936 , 1938 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 2 | American Jewish Trade Union Committee for Palestine |
1944 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 3 | American Jewish Trade Union Committee for Palestine |
1945 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 4 | American Jewish Trade Union Committee for Palestine |
1946-1949 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 5 | American Trade Union Council National Committee for Labor Israel |
1957 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 6 | American Zionist Emergency Council |
1943-1944 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 7 | Biographies |
undated | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 8 | Clippings: By and About Max Zaritsky |
1930s-1950s | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 9 | Correspondence |
1930s | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 10 | Correspondence |
1940-1945 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 11 | Correspondence |
1946-1949 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 12 | Correspondence |
1950-1959 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 1 | Fiftieth Birthday Dinner |
1935 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 2 | Hatters Unionism |
1912-1918 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 3 | Hatters Unionism |
1920s | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 4 | Hatters Unionism |
1930s | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 5 | Hatters Unionism |
1940s | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 6 | Jewish Affairs: Letters, Misc. |
1932-1951 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 7 | Labor Economics: Speeches and Related Material |
1938-1947 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 8 | Labor Law: Addresses and General Views |
1936-1946 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 9 | National Committee for a Leon Blum Colony in Palestine |
1938 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 10 | National Committee for a Leon Blum Colony in Palestine |
1939-1940 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 11 | National Recovery Administration: Speeches About |
1934-1936 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 1 | Palestine: Clippings, Articles, Resolutions |
1935-1948 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 2 | Palestine: Speeches on |
1938-1948 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 3 | Palestine: Trip to |
1937 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 4 | Political Activities and Endorsements |
1935-1950 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 5 | Presidential Elector (Roosevelt) |
1936 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 6 | Radio Addresses |
1935-1950 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 7 | Retirement / Convention of Hatters Union |
1950 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 8 | Saturday Evening Post Article: "Can Labor Prosper Under Free Enterprise?" [Jan 30,
1943] |
1942-1943 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 9 | Speeches Given at Conventions of Other Labor Unions |
1930-1938 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 10 | To the Industry (Addresses) |
1931-1943 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 11 | U.S. Government Citations and Honors |
1945-1952 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 12 | William Green Dinner |
1940 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 13 | William Green Dinner (American Trade Union Council for Histadrut) |
1951 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 14 | World War I: Liberty Loan Committee, Other Fundraising |
1918 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 15 | World War II: Addresses |
1942-1946 | |
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