United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union

United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (UHCMW)
PredecessorUnited Hatters of North America (1896), Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (1901)
Merged intoAmalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
Founded1934
Dissolved1983
Location
  • United States of America
Key people
Max Zaritsky, Alex Rose (labor leader)
AffiliationsCIO, AFL–CIO

The United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (1934–1983), also known by acronyms including UHCMW, U.H.C. & M.W.I.U. and UHC & MWIU,[1] was a 20th-century American labor union.[2][3][4][5]

History

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In 1934, the United Hatters of North America (UHNA) (formed 1896) and the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (CHCMW) (formed 1901), both based in New York, ended their competition by merging to form the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (UHCMW).[2][3][4][5]

In June 5, 1946, Congressional Quarterly reported how, in the wake of the Strike wave of 1945–1946 and February 1936 Case permanent strike control bill:

President Green of the A. F. L. called upon the President, June 3, to veto the Case (permanent) strike control bill which had been sent to the White House four days earlier. Unless this were done, he told the convention of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers at New York, "the 7,500,000 members of the A. F. L. will be rebels," and the A. F. L. will use its political strength "to elect men who will repeal this abhorrent legislation."[6]

In August 1948, UHCMW established a Hatters Union, Local No. 125 at the Texas-Miller Products.[7]

UHCMW failed to get International Hat Company employees to join its union.[8][9]

UHCMW was a member of the International Clothing Workers' Federation (IGWF), a global union federation representing workers involved in making and repairing clothes, as well as the International Textile and Garment Workers' Federation (ITGWF), also a global union federation of unions representing workers involved in manufacturing clothing and other textiles, and the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation (ITGLWF), which in 1970 resulted from the merger of the International Textile and Garment Workers' Federation and the International Shoe and Leather Workers' Federation.

The hat and millinery trade went into decline in the US, and in 1983 UHCMW merged into the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU).[2][3][4][5]

Leaders

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Presidents

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1934: Michael F. Greene[10]
1936: Max Zaritsky[10]
1950: Alex Rose[10]
1977: Nicholas Gyory

Secretary-Treasurers

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1934: Max Zaritsky
1936: Michael F. Greene
1949: Marx Lewis
1956: Alex Rose
1965: Alfred Smoke
1970s: Gerald R. Coleman
1979: Nicholas Gyory

Other leaders

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Legacy

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In 1995, ACTWU merged with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union to form UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees).[2][3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union". WorldCat. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d "United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union Local 4 Records". University of Massachusetts Amherst – Special Collections and University Archives. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union Local 4 Records". Cornell University – Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "Guide to the United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union Records TAM.054". New York University – Tamiment Library. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  5. ^ a b c "United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (HCMW)". Union of International Associations. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Big Money in The 1946 Campaign: Labor's Stake in Elections to Congress". Congressional Quarterly Review. 5 June 1946. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  7. ^ "United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union Records, Local No. 125: A Guide". University of Texas Arlington. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  8. ^ Block, Michael (February 2, 1983). "Hat Industry Puts High Hopes on Your Head". Milwaukee Journal. Hartford Courant. p. 17.
  9. ^ McMillian, Judge; Henley, Judge; Fagg, Judge. "INTERNATIONAL HAT COMPANY, Petitioner, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent". Legal Resource. United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  10. ^ a b c Notable Names in American History. Clifton, New Jersey: James T. White & Company. 1973. p. 559. ISBN 0883710021.


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