Guide to the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 1-S, Records WAG.012
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
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Description is in English using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Edited by Nicole Greenhouse to reflect additional administrative information and added archived websites , February 2022
Descriptive Summary
| Creator: | Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union. Local 1-S Department Store Workers Union (New York, N.Y.) |
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| Source: | Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union. Local 1-S Department Store Workers Union (New York, N.Y.) |
| Title: | Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), Local 1-S, Records |
| Dates [inclusive]: | 1939-2009, (Bulk 1947-1976) |
| Dates [bulk]: | 1947-1976 |
| Abstract: | Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 1-S Department Store Workers Union was organized at Macy's in New York City on June 7, 1939 by the Congress of Industrial Organizations' Department Store Organizing Committee. Headed by Sam Kovenetsky, a stockroom worker who served as Business Manager of Local 1-S from 1939 to 1948 and as President from 1948 to 1980, the union bargained for employee benefits including increased job security, higher minimum wages, and a company-paid health insurance plan. Originally affiliated with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), Local 1-S and other left-wing locals seceded from the RWDSU in 1948 after the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act. However, in 1951 Local 1-S re-affiliated with the CIO under a separate charter as an international union, the United Department Store Workers of America and in 1955 the Local re-affiliated with the RWDSU. The records consist of correspondence, minutes, constitutions, notes, speeches, newsletters, agreements, contract negotiations, grievances, annual reports, economic reports, memoranda, circulars and brochures. |
| Quantity: | 13 Linear Feet in 13 record cartons. |
| Quantity: | 3 websites in 3 archived websites. |
| Location: | Materials are stored offsite and advance notice is required for use. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu at least two business days prior to research visit. |
| Language: | Materials are primarily in English with some Spanish on the websites. |
| Call Phrase: | WAG.012 |
Historical/Biographical Note
The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, Local 1-S Department Store Workers Union had its origins in efforts to organize the workers of Macy's department store in New York City. These efforts came to fruition with the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935 and the establishment of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1938. The CIO's Department Store Organizing Committee, headed by Samuel Wolchok, began to focus on the large department stores in New York City and chose Sam Kovenetsky, a stockroom worker, to head the organizing drive at Macy's. Kovenetsky served as Business Manager of Local 1-S from 1939 to 1948, and President from 1948 to 1980.
First organized on June 7, 1939, Local 1-S was at first confined to non-selling departments of Macy's, but by 1943, 54% of the salesclerks voted for union representation. Through negotiations, Local 1-S bargained for employee benefits including increased job security, higher minimum wages, and a company-paid health insurance plan. Contracts banning racial, religious and gender discrimination were also achieved.
From its inception as an affiliate of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), the left-wing leadership of Local 1-S clashed with Samuel Wolchok, then head of the international union and a right-wing Socialist. Although achieving a period of uneasy cooperation during World War II, Local 1-S and other left-wing unions seceded en masse in 1948 after the RWDSU's endorsement of the Taft-Hartley Act's non-Communist affidavit provision.
However, in 1951 Local 1-S re-affiliated with the CIO under a separate charter as an international, the United Department Store Workers of America. In 1955, the year of the AFL-CIO merger, Local 1-S re-affiliated with the RWDSU. A 13-day strike against Macy's in 1956 won improvements in job security and wage rates. In 1963 the union achieved a 37 ½ hour work week for its members, and the late 60s saw significant advances in benefits. The Local, long active in New York civil rights activities was well represented at the 1963 March on Washington.
Local president Sam Kovenetsky, a well-known figure in New York trade-union circles, served as a vice-president of the RWDSU and of the New York State AFL-CIO. He chaired the New York City Central Labor Council's Camp Committee, and sat on the Executive Board of the Maritime Trades Department, AFL-CIO. He also attended international meetings of representatives of department-store unions and other white-collar unions and was an advisor on industrial education to the New York City Board of Education.
By 1980, when President Kovenetsky retired, Local 1-S was the nation's largest department-store union. Kovenetsky was succeeded by Local vice-president Joe Pascarella. The Local currently represents over 3,500 active employees at Macy's flagship Herald Square store in Manhattan and workers at the Queens, Parkchester and White Plains stores.
Sources:
- "1-S, Twenty-five Years of Progress, 1938-1963." Local 1-S, Anniversary Pamphlet, 1964.
- Kirstein, George G. Stores and Unions. New York: Fairchild Press, 1950.
- Opler, Daniel. For All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York's Department Store Workers, 1934-1953. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007.
Scope and Content Note
Series I: Constitutions, By-laws and Minutes, 1939-1979, contains printed booklets of the Local's constitution and by-laws, as well as minutes of Executive Board and General Membership meetings. Some of the early minutes of the Executive Board are in bound minute-books.
Series II: General and Macy's Herald Square Files, 1939-1997, contains administrative materials and files concerning the day-to-day activities of the union at its primary shop. Arbitration, negotiation and membership information are included, as are subject files, circulars, correspondence and agreements. Files relating to union committees, such as the Committee on Political Education, the Negotiations Committee and the Trial Committee are present. Of particular significance are files of material produced by Macy's, including annual reports, employee handbooks and circulars, an in-house newspaper and publicity materials.
Series III: Other Shop Files, 1944-1972, consists of organizing materials and related information pertaining to other shops of Local 1-S, including Macy's locations in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, as well Macy's divisions, such as Suburban Food and Bamberger's. The most substantial documentation is for Macy's Roosevelt Field and Suburban Foods shops.
Series IV: Sam Kovenetsky Files, 1943-1979, contains correspondence between Kovenetsky and union members, Macy's executives and other unions, as well as speeches, notes and biographical information. Material relating to his involvement in other organizations, including the Greater New York Fund, Group Health Insurance, Labor for Carey Committee and the Workmen's Circle Home and Infirmary for the Aged is also included.
Series V: Legal Counsel Files, 1947-1974, contain records from the office of O'Donnell and Schwartz, Local 1-S' legal firm. The majority of the files pertain to arbitration matters and contract negotiations.
Arrangement
Folders are arranged alphabetically.
The files are organized into five series:
- I, Constitutions, By-Laws and Minutes, 1939-1979
- II, General and Macy's Herald Square Files, 1939-1997
- III, Other Shop Files, 1944-1972
- IV, Sam Kovenetsky Papers, 1943-1979
- V, Legal Counsel Files, 1947-1974
- VI, Archived Websites, March 2009-ongoing
Access Points
Subject Names
- Kovenetsky, Sam
Document Type
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Pamphlets.
- Newsletters.
- Minutes (administrative records)
- Circulars (fliers)
- Correspondence.
- Constitutions.
- Contracts
- Collective labor agreements.
Subject Organizations
- Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union. Local 1-S Department Store Workers Union (New York, N.Y.)
- Macy's (Firm)
- Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union. Local 1-S Department Store Workers Union (New York, N.Y.)
Subject Topics
- Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States.
- Strikes and lockouts -x Retail trade -- New York (State) -- New York.
Subject Places
- New York (N.Y.).
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date; Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU),
Local 1-S Records; WAG 012; 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.
To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; etail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), Local 1-S Records; WAG 012; Wayback URL; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by the Local 1-S Department Store Workers Union in three donations from 1979 to 1981. The accession number associated with this gift is 1979.016.
Websites were initially selected by curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in 2007 as part of the Labor Unions and Organizations (U.S.) Web Archive. In 2015, these websites were migrated to Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. In circa 2015, the original URL associated with this collection, http://www.local1srwdsu.org/, became defunct. In 2018, the new URL, https://www.1srwdsu.org/, was added to the web archive. The accession number associated with this website is 2019.094. In July 2021, https://local1s.nationbuilder.com/ was added to the web archive. The accession number associated with this website is 2022.009.
Processing Information
In 2014, the archived website was added as Series VI. In 2019 and 2022, an additional websites were added.
Take Down Policy
Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.
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Container List
Series I: Constitutions, By-Laws and Minutes, 1939-1979
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
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| Box: 1 | Folder : 1 | Constitution and By-Laws |
1947-1949 , 1968 , 1979 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 2 | Minutes: Executive Board |
Jul 1939-Sep 1941 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 3 | Minutes: Executive Board |
Oct 1941-Jul 1943 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 4 | Minutes: Executive Board |
Nov 1943-Dec 1943 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 5 | Minutes: Executive Board |
Apr 1945-Mar 1946 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 6 | Minutes: Executive Board |
Apr 1946-May 1948 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 7 | Minutes: Executive Board |
Jun 1948-Feb 1949 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 8 | Minutes: Executive Board |
1955-1965 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 9 | Minutes: Executive Board |
1966-1969 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 10 | Minutes: Executive Board |
1970-1975 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 11 | Minutes: General Membership Meeting |
1948 , 1957 , 1961-1963 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 12 | Minutes and Attendance Reports: General Membership Meeting |
1965-1966 , 1971-1973 , 1977-1979 | |
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Series II: General and Macy's Herald Square Files, 1939-1997
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 13 | Agreements |
1939-1940 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 14 | Agreements |
1942 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 15 | Agreements |
1943 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 16 | Agreements |
1944 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 17 | Agreements |
1945 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 18 | Agreements |
1946 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 1 | Agreements |
1947-1951 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 2 | Agreements |
1953-1965 , 1968 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 3 | Agreements |
1970-1976 , 1978-1980 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 4 | American Parkinson Disease Association: David Siegal Dinner |
May 1973 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 5 | Anti-Discrimination Committee |
1946-1950 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 6 | Anti-Discrimination Committee |
1951-1953 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 7 | Arbitrations |
1944 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 8 | Arbitrations |
1946-1948 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 9 | Arbitrations (I) |
1952 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 10 | Arbitrations (II) |
1952 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 11 | Arbitrations (III) |
1952 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 12 | Arbitrations (IV) |
1952 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 1 | Arbitrations (V) |
1952 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 2 | Arbitrations (I) |
1955 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 3 | Arbitrations (II) |
1955 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 4 | Arbitrations (III) |
1955 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 5 | Arbitrations (IV) |
1955 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 6 | Arbitrations |
1962 , 1965 , 1971 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 7 | Assessment Trials |
1948 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 8 | Benefits: Health |
1957-1970 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 9 | Benefits: Health |
1971-1978 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 10 | Benefits: Pension Plan |
1956 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 11 | Benefits: Pension Plan |
1965-1975 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 12 | Blue Laws |
1949 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 13 | Brown, Harry v. Local 1-S, United Department Store Workers(Equal Employment Opportunity case) |
1973 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 14 | Clippings |
1946-1956 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 15 | Clippings |
1964-1966 , 1974 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 16 | Committee on Political Education |
1955-1964 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 17 | Committee on Political Education: Correspondence |
1955-1963 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 18 | Conference: Agenda and Clippings |
1960 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 19 | Congress of Industrial Organizations Department Store Employees Organizing Committee |
1951 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 20 | Constitution Committee |
1959-1974 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 21 | Contracts: Other Locals |
1942 , 1950-1973 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 22 | Contracts: Other Unions |
1969-1971 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 23 | Convention (International Union) |
1962 , 1966 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 1 | Correspondence: Policies |
1945-1956 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 2 | Correspondence: Policies |
1957-1967 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 3 | Correspondence: Policies |
1968-1971 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 4 | Correspondence: Policies |
1972-1974 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 5 | Correspondence: Policies |
1975-1979 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 6 | Correspondence: Policies - Index |
1945-1979 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 7 | Curley, Walter J. v.Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers, Local 1-S (New York State Supreme
Court): Summons and Motion |
1948-1950 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 8 | Department Store Workers, Local 1000 (Toronto): Organizing |
1950-1953 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 9 | Department Store Workers, Local 1000 (Toronto): Unionize(Shop Paper) |
1951-1953 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 10 | Divisional Meetings: Agendas, Notes and Reports |
1946-1948 , 1960-1967 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 11 | Divisional Meetings: Attendance Reports |
1973 , 1977 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 12 | Elections and Objections Committee |
1962-1965 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 13 | Elections: Circulars |
1949 , 1959 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 14 | Elections: Vote Tally |
Jan 1963 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 15 | Executive Board: Correspondence |
1946-1948 , 1969 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 16 | Executive Board: Members |
Mar 1, 1972 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 17 | Executive Board: Notes |
1946-1948 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 18 | Finances |
1947-1977 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 19 | General Electric Strike |
1969 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 20 | Grievances |
1959-1966 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 21 | Grievances |
1967-1973 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 22 | Grievances |
1975-1978 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 23 | Hawaii Trip |
1960 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 24 | History |
1939-1949 , 1979 , 1997 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 25 | "Just Organize" (poem) |
1973 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 26 | Keyserling, Leon H.: "The Employees of Macy's Deserve Large Pay Increases Now" (typescript) |
Mar 1968 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 27 | King-Anderson Bill (health care for the elderly) |
1963 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 28 | Kovenetsky, Sam: Correspondence to Shop Stewards |
1949-1956 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 29 | Kovenetsky, Sam: Testimonial Dinner and Dance |
Sep 1973 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 30 | Legislation |
1974-1977 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 31 | Legislation: New York Legislative Service |
1972-1976 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 32 | Local 1-S Federal Credit Union |
1964-1965 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 33 | "Local 1-S Is Your Union" (pamphlet) |
1956 , 1978 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 34 | Local 1-S Newsletter |
Apr 1960-May 1960 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 35 | "The Local 1-S Story" (film proposal) |
1963 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 36 | Local 1-S Realty Corporation: Finances |
1972 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 1 | Macy Star |
1946-1950 , 1975-1977 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 2 | Macy's: Annual Reports |
1955-1962 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 3 | Macy's: Annual Reports |
1969-1973 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 4 | Macy's: Employee Memoranda |
1945-1977 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 5 | Macy's: Economic Reports |
1938 , 1952 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 6 | Macy's: Employee Circulars |
1948-1949 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 7 | Macy's: Employee Handbooks |
1952-1961 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 8 | Macy's: History |
undated | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 9 | Macy's: Organizational Chart |
Aug 1, 1970 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 10 | Macy's: Other Branches |
1963-1966 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 11 | Macy's: Program for 49th Annual Banquet Honoring Mr. Jack I. Straus |
May 6, 1970 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 12 | Macy's: Publicity |
1952-1972 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 13 | Membership |
1947-1973 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 14 | Membership: Cards and Credential |
1941-1979 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 15 | Membership: Correspondence |
1971-1977 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 16 | Membership: Dues |
1947-1971 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 17 | Membership: New Membership Classes |
1961 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 18 | Metro Labor Press Council |
1976-1977 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 19 | Metro Labor Press Council |
1978 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 20 | National War Labor Board |
1945 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 21 | Negotiations |
1944-1946 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 22 | Negotiations |
1947-1948 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 23 | Negotiations |
1950-1954 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 24 | Negotiations |
1955-1956 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 25 | Negotiations |
1958-1959 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 26 | Negotiations (I) |
1961 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 27 | Negotiations (II) |
1961 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 1 | Negotiations |
1962-1963 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 2 | Negotiations |
1964-1965 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 3 | Negotiations |
1968-1971 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 4 | Negotiations |
1972-1973 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 5 | Negotiations |
1974 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 6 | Negotiations: Circulars |
1944-1948 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 7 | Negotiations: Circulars |
1949-1954 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 8 | Negotiations: Circulars |
1962-1980 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 9 | Negotiations Committee: Minutes |
1961-1963 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 10 | Negotiations Committee: Minutes |
1978 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 11 | New York City Central Labor Council: Summer Camp Program |
1975 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 12 | New York State Department of Labor: Brochures |
1967-1976 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 13 | Office Inventory |
1965 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 14 | Organizational Charts |
undated | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 15 | Political Action Committee |
1954 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 16 | Political Action Committee: Circulars |
1954 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 17 | Political Action Committee: Correspondence |
1954 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 18 | Press Releases |
1948-1972 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 19 | "Punchout" (play): Script, Press Releases |
Dec 1980 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 20 | Retail Clerks International Union |
undated | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 21 | Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers Union and Local 1-S Split (Communist
issue) |
1946-1949 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 22 | Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers Union and Local 1-S Split (Communist
issue): Flyers |
1948 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 23 | Scholarships |
1961-1962 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 24 | Scholarships |
1965-1966 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 25 | Scholarships |
1967 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 1 | Scholarships |
1968 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 2 | Scholarships |
1969-1970 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 3 | Scholarships |
1972-1973 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 4 | Scholarships |
1974-1975 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 5 | Scholarships |
1976-1977 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 6 | Scholarships |
1978-1979 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 7 | Shop Stewards and Executive Committee Meetings |
1948 , 1951 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 8 | Shop Stewards: Bulletins |
1949 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 9 | Shop Stewards Conference |
1951-1952 , 1954 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 10 | Shop Stewards Conference |
1963-1968 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 11 | Shop Stewards Conference |
1970 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 12 | Shop Stewards Conference |
1972 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 13 | Shop Stewards Conference |
1974 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 14 | Shop Stewards Conference |
1976 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 15 | Shop Stewards Conference |
1976 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 16 | Shop Stewards Conference |
1976 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 17 | Shop Stewards Conference |
1978 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 18 | Shop Stewards Handbook |
1949-1962 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 19 | Shop Stewards Logs |
1979 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 20 | Shop Stewards Meetings |
1952 , 1969-1974 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 21 | Shop Stewards Newsletters |
1949-1952 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 22 | Shop Stewards: Training |
1964 , 1972 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 23 | Sobol, Norman L. (Editor): Correspondence |
1959-1974 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 24 | Social Events: Circulars |
1944-1950 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 25 | Staff Meetings |
Apr 23, 1948 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 26 | Staff Meetings |
1961-1970 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 27 | Staff Meetings |
1971-1972 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 28 | Staff Meetings |
1973-1974 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 29 | Staff Training |
1970 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 30 | "State of the Union" (President's Report) |
1949 , 1954 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 31 | Strike |
1948 , 1953 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 32 | Strike |
1956-1968 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 33 | Strike |
1970-1974 | |
| Flat-File-Folder: 2 | Strike: Placards |
1979 | ||
| Box: 7 | Folder : 34 | Trial Committee |
1946 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 35 | Trial Committee |
1947-1948 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 1 | Trial Committee |
1951 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 2 | Trial Committee (I) |
1953 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 3 | Trial Committee (II) |
1953 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 4 | Trial Committee |
1954-1955 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 5 | Trial Committee |
1956 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 6 | Trial Committee |
1957-1958 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 7 | Trial Committee |
1959 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 8 | Trial Committee (I) |
1960 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 9 | Trial Committee (II) |
1960 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 10 | Trial Committee |
1962-1964 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 11 | Trial Committee |
1964-1971 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 12 | "Twenty Five Years of Progress" (25th Anniversary Celebration): Program |
May 23, 1964 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 13 | United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employees of America, Local 3: Agreement |
1945 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 14 | United States House of Representatives, Special Subcommittee on Education and Labor:
Investigation of Communism in New York City Distributive Trades |
Jul 1, 1948 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 15 | Wage and Contractual Changes |
1947 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 16 | Wage and Contractual Changes |
1962-1968 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 17 | Wage and Contractual Changes |
1969-1970 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 18 | Wage and Contractual Changes |
1971-1972 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 1 | Wage and Contractual Changes |
1973-1974 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 2 | Wage and Contractual Changes |
1975-1976 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 3 | Wage and Contractual Changes |
1977-1978 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 4 | Wages: Contested Promotion and Open to Hire Lists |
1960-1968 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 5 | Wages: Minimum Wage Rates |
1939-1971 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 6 | Wages: Pro Rates |
1954-1955 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 7 | Wages: Pro Rates |
1958-1959 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 8 | Wages: Pro Rates |
1960-1961 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 9 | Wages: Pro Rates (I) |
1964-1965 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 10 | Wages: Pro Rates (II) |
1964-1965 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 11 | Wages: Pro Rates |
1969 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 12 | Wages: Pro Rates |
1970 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 13 | Wages: Pro Rates |
1973 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 14 | Wages: Wage Freeze Petition |
1972 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 15 | Wages: Wage Rates |
1939-1940 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 16 | Wages: Wage Rates |
1945 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 17 | Wages: Wage Rates |
1951 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 1 | Wages: Wage Rates |
1953-1954 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 2 | Wages: Wage Rates |
1956-1957 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 3 | Wages: Wage Rates |
1960 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 4 | Wages: Wage Rates |
1961 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 5 | Wages: Wage Rates |
1962-1963 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 6 | Wages: Wage Rates |
1962-1963 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 7 | Wages: Wage Rates |
1965 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 8 | Wages: Wage Rates |
1968 | |
| Box: Shared Tamiment 018 | Folder : 16 | Photographs |
1959-1979 | |
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Series III: Other Shop Files, 1944-1972
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 9 | Alexander's Department Stores: Organizing |
1957 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 10 | B. Altman and Company: Organizing |
1970 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 11 | Gertz: Organizing |
1949 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 12 | Lord & Taylor: Organizing |
1951 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 13 | Ludwig Baumann and Company: Arbitration |
1950-1951 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 14 | Ludwig Baumann and Company: Organizing |
1949-1950 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 15 | Macy's Flatbush: Organizing |
1948-1950 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 16 | Macy's Jamaica: Organizing |
1947-1948 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 17 | Macy's Paramus (Bamberger's): Organizing |
1963 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 18 | Macy's Parkchester: Agreements |
1944-1949 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 19 | Macy's Parkchester: National War Labor Board Agreement |
1945 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 20 | Macy's Queens: Circulars |
1965 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 21 | Macy's Roosevelt Field: Arbitration |
1959 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 22 | Macy's Roosevelt Field: Circulars |
1956-1959 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 23 | Macy's Roosevelt Field: Company Memos and Circulars |
1958-1959 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 24 | Macy's Roosevelt Field: Departments |
undated | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 25 | Macy's Roosevelt Field: "Local 1-S Roosevelt Field News" (shop paper) |
1959 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 26 | Macy's Roosevelt Field: Organizing |
1956-1959 , 1970 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 27 | Macy's White Plains: Circulars |
1949 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 1 | Suburban Foods: Agreements |
1961-1968 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 2 | Suburban Foods: Arbitration |
1961 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 3 | Suburban Foods: Correspondence |
1961-1967 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 4 | Suburban Foods: Grievances |
1962-1972 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 5 | Suburban Foods: Ground Rules Committee |
1966-1967 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 6 | Suburban Foods: Health Plan |
1968 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 7 | Suburban Foods: Meeting Notes and Attendance |
1962 , 1967 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 8 | Suburban Foods: Negotiations |
1961-1968 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 9 | Suburban Foods: Pension |
1965-1970 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 10 | Suburban Foods: Salespeople |
1960-1969 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 11 | Ohrbach's: Organizing |
1964 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 12 | Ohrbach's: Organizing Circulars |
1962-1964 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 13 | Pomeroy's: Organizing |
1955 | |
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Series IV: Sam Kovenetsky Files, 1943-1979
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 14 | American Cancer Society |
1973-1975 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 15 | Biographical Information |
1963 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 16 | Conference Notes |
1960 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 17 | Correspondence |
1965-1979 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 18 | Correspondence: Internal |
1965 , 1971 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 19 | Correspondence: Letters of Recommendation |
1974-1977 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 20 | Correspondence: Macy's |
1940-1949 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 21 | Correspondence: Macy's |
1970-1974 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 22 | Correspondence: Other Unions |
1943 , 1951-1977 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 23 | Correspondence: Personal |
1959-1977 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 24 | Fortuna Lodge No. 318, International Order of Odd Fellows |
1977 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 25 | Greater New York Fund |
1968 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 1 | Greater New York Fund |
1969 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 2 | Greater New York Fund |
1973-1974 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 3 | Greater New York Fund |
1975 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 4 | Greater New York Fund |
1976 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 5 | Group Health Insurance |
1973 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 6 | Group Health Insurance |
1974 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 7 | Group Health Insurance |
1975-1976 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 8 | Group Health Insurance: Minutes |
1973 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 9 | Group Health Insurance: Minutes |
1974 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 10 | Group Health Insurance: Minutes |
1975 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 11 | Group Health Insurance: Minutes |
1976 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 12 | Industrial Relations Research Association, New York Chapter |
1976 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 13 | Israel Histadrut Associates |
1977 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 14 | Japan Trip (sponsored by Japan Federation of Commercial Workers Unions) |
1970 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 15 | Jewish National Fund |
undated | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 16 | Labor Committee to Back Carter Campaign |
1979 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 17 | Labor for Carey Committee |
1974-1975 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 18 | March on Washington |
1963 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 19 | Meeting Notes |
1968-1975 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 20 | Poems |
undated | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 21 | Proclamation on Crossing the International Date Line |
1967 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 22 | Speeches |
1948 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 23 | Speeches |
1954-1958 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 24 | Sales Tax Increase: Clippings and Statement |
1963 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 25 | Teamsters Lodge #2201, B'nai B'rith |
1966-1975 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 26 | Temple Israel of Putnam Valley |
1976-1977 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 27 | United Hebrew Trades |
1963 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 28 | Workmen's Circle Home and Infirmary for the Aged |
1977 | |
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Series V: Legal Counsel Files, 1947-1974
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 1 | 1-S Corporation |
1960-1965 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 2 | 1-S Limited Profit Housing Corporation |
1968 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 3 | Agreements: Saturday Onlies |
1953-1956 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 4 | Arbitrations |
1947-1964 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 5 | Arbitrations: Cole, David |
1948 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 6 | Arbitrations: Elimination of Children's Shoe-fitter Classification |
1969-1970 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 7 | Arbitrations: Farley, Charles |
Jul 1957 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 8 | Arbitrations: L. Bamberger and Company |
1960 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 9 | Arbitrations: Macy's Huntington |
1973 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 10 | Arbitrations: Macy's Queens |
1965 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 11 | Arbitrations: Macy's Roosevelt Field Auto Center |
1968 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 12 | Arbitrations: Ohrbach's |
1962-1964 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 13 | Arbitrations: Picketing |
1971-1972 , 1976 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 14 | Arbitrations: Rawdin, Eugene |
Feb 1958 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 15 | Arbitrations: Smooke, Irving |
Sep 1966 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 16 | Arbitrations: Stein, Emanuel |
1952-1953 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 17 | Arbitrations: Stock Clerk Classification |
Dec 1958 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 18 | Arbitrations: Stock Counts by Vendors |
Mar 1965 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 19 | Arbitrations: Vanderbilt Automotive Centers |
1967-1973 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 20 | Arbitrations: Violation of Wage Schedule Provisions |
1970 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 21 | Arbitrations: Wage Schedule in Merged Shoe Department |
1962 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 22 | Arbitrations: Wrapping "Sent" Packages |
Oct 1957 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 23 | City Island Property Purchase |
1963-1967 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 24 | Constitution and By-Laws Changes |
1953 , 1959-1970 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 25 | Correspondence |
1962-1969 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 26 | Correspondence |
1970-1974 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 27 | Elections Challenge (Joseph Pascarella and Leo Gomez) |
1972 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 28 | Equal Pay for Women |
1971 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 29 | Negotiations |
1953-1954 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 30 | Negotiations |
1956-1965 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 31 | Negotiations |
1967-1968 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 32 | Negotiations |
1970-1972 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 33 | Negotiations: Macy's Queens |
1966 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 34 | Office Lease |
1966 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 35 | Pay Board |
1972-1973 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 36 | Pension Plan |
1963 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 37 | Proposed Merger (Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers Union with Distributive,
Processing and Office Workers Union and United Department Store Workers of America) |
1953-1955 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 38 | United Department Store Workers of America, CIO |
1952-1969 | |
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Series VI: Archived Websites, March 2009-ongoing. 3 websites in 3 archived websites.
Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, Local 1-S, Department Store Workers Union Archived Website: March 2009-February 2016 [https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/http://www.local1srwdsu.org/]Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, Local 1-S, Department Store Workers Union Archived Website: November 2018-July 2021 [https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://www.1srwdsu.org/]Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, Local 1-S Archived Website: July 2021-ongoing [https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://local1s.nationbuilder.com/]
Scope and Content NoteLocal 1-S is a local branch of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union/UFCW (RWDSU), which represents Macy's workers in the United States and 3,500 employees at the Macy's department store in Herald Square, Manhattan. The union works to protect Macy's employees' right to the fair wages and benefits that allow them to support themselves and their families. Crawling of the website began in 2009 and contained information on officers and stewards, scholarships and other benefits, health and safety in retail, rights on the job, grievance procedures, vacation policy, contracts, political action and voter registration, newsletters dating back to 2002, photo galleries, and other news. In 2011, the website focused on contract negotiations with Macy's and Macy's furniture store unionization efforts in Elmhurt, Queens. There was a gap of crawling between 2015-2018. Crawling at a new URL began in 2018. The new website contained mostly news related to the 2016 contract negotiations. In 2020, the website updated with information related to the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically the Macy's temporary store closure in March 2020, furloughs, COVID-19 safety, and reopening in June 2020. It redirected to a new URL in 2021.
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsDue to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
AccrualsNew site crawls accrued semiannually.
AppraisalCrawl was limited to domains and subdomains of https://local1s.nationbuilder.com/ in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints. |
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