Includes minutes of Board of Directors (see microfilm), correspondence, audits, and financial reports.

Includes financial reports, 1940-1942; minutes of founding conference, 3/9/1911 and executive committee (see microfilm); and executive committee minutes, 1938-1962.

The Officers' Correspondence files document the work of the Union Label Council and Service Trades Department, in particular its efforts to publicize union labelled goods produced by organized shops (but only those produced by AFL craft unions until the 1955 merger). Because the New York City office functioned as a national information center, correspondents were rank and file unionists from around the country, as well as politicians (such as Mayor La Guardia and Governor F. D. Roosevelt) responding to the lobbying efforts of the Union Label Council. Other prominent correspondents are George Meany and William Green. Arranged chronologically with incoming and outgoing letters on the same subject filed together by the date of the last letter, the correspondence also highlights the key role played by the Secretary-Treasurer (Charles Sinnigen from 1919-March, 1949 and Harry Avrutin from Dec. 1949-1977). Major subject areas documented by the letters, reports, flyers, programs, telegrams, speeches, invitations and minutes are: investigation of "phoney" union labels, objection to registration of new union labels with the NYS Dept. of Labor (usually non-AFL labels), investigation of printed material without the Allied.

Printing Trades Council's label, involvement with the planning for the NY World's Fair (1937-1939), the War Bond and Stamp Committee (1943-1945), strike and boycott information, planning for publicity events and arranging speaking engagements at union meetings and conventions. The sub-series reflect some of the community work of the officers - Sinnigen: Advisory Board on Vocational Education for the NYC Board of Education (a rich body of material on the development of vocational education), Non­ Partisan Committee of Queens County and the Board of Directors for the Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor. Sinnegen's reports and correspondence to the Union Label Trades Department, 1939- 1946, give full intelligence on CIO activities and AFL response in New York City. Avrutin: Trade Union Campaign of Brooklyn Women's Hospital, Board for Camp Minimum Wage and the National Labor Council of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Inc. Affiliation applications are located in Series VIII.

This series contains publicity material produced by the Washington office for labor press editors and for Union Label and Service Trades' Councils in the form of news releases, information packets, pamphlets, form letters and publications. The news packets primarily focused on suggestions for Union Label Week activities each year. The ULSTD used news releases to advise unionists about which goods to buy and which were to be boycotted (subjects - United Furniture Workers, Kingsport Press, UFW grape and lettuce boycott and the Farah boycott). In addition, the series includes the ULSTD's 1945 and 1946 editions of the Union Label Catalogue Directory and the 1964-1965 General Directory of Union-Made Products and Services. A small amount of publicity material for the Union Industries Shows staged between 1949 and 1972 is included. Files on the ULSTD's conventions are primarily made up of reports to the conventions by H. Avrutin in his capacity as Secretary of the Special Committee on State and City Union Label Councils and Women's Auxiliaries and as Secretary-Treasurer of the NYS-ULSTD.

Series VI includes correspondence, resolutions, speeches, committee reports, and proceedings of Union Label conventions.

This series is comprised of periodic audit reports prepared for the Union Label and Service Trades Council of New York and Long Island (1962-1969) and the ULSTD of NYS (1938-1977). Arranged by organization and by year, the reports present a statement of assets, liabilities and surplus and a statement of cash receipts and disbursements.

This series is comprised of correspondence, news releases, brochures and flyers developed by the Union Label Trades for publicity events to promote union made products. Highlights include files on the later years of the Labor Press Conference (1967-1970), the Label Trades weekly radio program on WNYC for discussion of labor issues. Detailed news releases for the radio programs during the years 1968-1970 provide information on topics and speakers.

This series includes correspondence, leaflets, programs, and reports about events such as the Salute to Labor ballgame at Shea Stadium, the Union Label Pace at Roosevelt Raceway, Union Label Award of Merit Luncheons and promotionals such as the Little Miss Union Maid doll and the Union Industries Information Center set up for exhibits at the New York City office. Of special interest are the Miss Union Maid contest files which include application materials from women trade unionists (with a photograph and an essay about "what my union membership means to me") for five different contests during the period 1962-1972. Files on the Labor-Management exhibition trade show held annually between 1957-1979 comprise a majority of this series. It includes extensive correspondence with both unions and businesses in an effort to secure exhibitors of union-made products. These files document a very cooperative approach to labor-management relations.

The subject files encompass both issues of importance to the Union Label Trades as well as other organizations with which the union label organizations were involved. Major subject files include strikes-boycotts­ demonstrations (Coors boycott, Burke-Hartke Save Jobs Rally-1972, Judy Bond boycott, Farah strike and boycott), copies of contracts containing language on the union label. Types of material include pamphlets, news releases, flyers, programs, correspondence and certificates.