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Men's Clothing Manufacturers' Association of Ontario fonds

  • ON00210 31
  • Fonds
  • 1919-[ca. 1989]

Fonds includes records related to the Association's role in negotiations with the employee's union on behalf of their membership, as well as their work in lobbying senior levels of government on such matters as labour relations, tariffs and taxes, and other issues related to the production of men's and boys' garments. The records include legal documents; executive and committee meeting minutes; financial records; arbitration, mediation and negotiation reports and correspondence; collective agreements; labour statistics; general correspondence files; parliamnetary briefs; submissions and reports; and seminar photographs. There are also files related to specific bodies that the Association collaborated or correspondend with, such as the Toronto Club of Clothing Designers. Of particulalr interest are the files of the Overseas Garment Workers Commission, which document the Association's role in helping with the Canadian immigration of Jewish refugees and other Displaced Persons as tailors and garment workers.

Men's Clothing Manufacturers' Association of Ontario