How Did the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and Chinese Garment Workers Unite to Organize the 1938 National Dollar Stores Strike?

by Thomas Dublin, with research assistance by John Qiu, Julie Joseph, and Michelle Kleehammer. (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 2004)
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How Did the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and Chinese Garment Workers Unite to Organize the 1938 National Dollar Stores Strike?, by Thomas Dublin, with research assistance by John Qiu, Julie Joseph, and Michelle Kleehammer. (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 2004).
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•Abstract
•Introduction
•Document List
•Document 1: Rose Pesotta, "Subterranean Sweatshops in Chinatown," 1944
•Document 2: Heng Tang Zheng, "The Crisis and Future of the Chinese Garment Industry," 10 and 11 April 1935
•Document 3: Letter from Jennie Maytas, to the editor of Chinese Digest, July 1937
•Document 4: "Why Do We Join the Union?" [January 1938]
•Document 5: "Bilinguistic Labor Ballot Makes Bow," [January 1938]
•Document 6: Bilingual Ballot, January 1938
•Document 7: Petition for Investigation and Certification of Representatives, 24 January 1938
•Document 8: Jennie Matyas, Press Release, 26 February 1938
•Document 9: "A Letter to Public Regarding the Strike," 26 February 1938
•Document 10: "Chinese Local Pickets Plant, Three Stores," 27 February 1938
•Document 11: "Chinese Girl Strikers Picket Dollar Stores," 4 March 1938
•Document 12: "First Chinese Dress Strike Stirs San Francisco Labor," 15 March 1938
•Document 13: Letter from Chinese Six Companies to Chinese Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Golden Gate Manufactu...
•Document 14: Unfair Labor Practice Charge, 16 March 1938
•Document 15: "Stores Win Picket Ban," 20 March 1938
•Document 16: "Labor Strike in Chinatown: Official Statements of Parties Involved," April 1938
•Document 17: Letter from Chinese Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Local #341, to Workers and Union Members, 1 M...
•Document 18: "Evidence of National Dollar Stores Attempt to Break Up Union during Organization Period," [May 1...
•Document 19: Agreement between ILGWU and Golden Gate Manufacturing Company, 8 June 1938
•Document 20: Agreement between ILGWU and National Dollar Stores, and Golden Gate Manufacturing Company, 8 June...
•Document 21: "Garment Factory Strike Settled," 9 June 1938
•Document 22A: "Pickets Still Block Garment Factory," 13 July 1938
•Document 22B: "Green Asks AFL Organizers to Quit Garment Field Here," 13 July 1938
•Document 23: Jennie Matyas, "Chinatown Turns Union: Against Overwhelming Obstacles, San Francisco's Oriental D...
•Document 24A: Invitation to Banquet held on 21 August 1938
•Document 24B: "Chinese Local Marks Opening of New Office in San Francisco," 15 September 1938
•Document 25: Enzo Grassi and Fred Schmidt, "N.Y. Dressmakers Visit Chinese Shop," 15 September 1938
•Document 26: Jennie Matyas, "Pres. Dubinsky Reaches Coast," [October 1938]
•Document 27: "The Chinese Local Extends Greetings," January 1939
•Document 28: Golden Gate Manufacturing Company to the Chinese Ladies' Garment Workers ILGWU Local No. 341, 6 M...
•Document 29: Exerpt from an Oral History with Jennie Matyas, 1955
•Image 1: Jennie Matyas and Willie Gee
•Image 2: Chinese Ladies Garment Workers No. 341, 22 January 1938
•Image 3: Its First Big Labor Dispute, 27 February 1938
•Image 4: Picketing Women in Chinatown's Labor Movement, [March 1938]
•Image 5: Children of Chinese ILGWU Strikers, [March 1938]
•Image 6: International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Meeting, [1944]
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