Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Local 1716 (Rome, Ga.)

The Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) was an industrial union of textile workers established through the Congress of Industrial Organizations in1939. The TWUA found itself in the 1960's and 1970's in steep competition with other unions for representation in large Southern plants. As a consequence of this, the union was forced to merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA, which was established by Sidney Hillman in 1914) in an effort to combine their strength and resources, becoming the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) in 1976. Workers in Rome, Georgia, organized Textile Workers Union of America, Local 689, and later Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Local 1716.