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Michigan State University Labor History Speeches, 1896-1977

Title: Michigan State University Labor History Speeches, 1896-1977

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

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United Textile Workers of America. Southern Region. Area A. Southern Region, Area A records, 1956-1975.

Title: Southern Region, Area A records, 1956-1975.

The collection consists of the records of the United Textile Workers of America, Southern Region, Area A from 1956-1975. Correspondence (1957-1972) comprises the bulk of the collection and includes information on the condition of the textile industry, interpretations of U.S. Congressional legislation, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decisions, lobbying the proposed merger of the UTWA and the Textile Workers of America, suspension and reinstatement of the UTWA by the AFL-CIO, and organizing activity in Tennessee and Kentucky. Major correspondents include UTWA President George Baldanzi, UTWA Secretary Frances Schaufenbil and UTWA Southern Region Co-Directors Everett Dean and Roy Whitmire. The company files (1957-1967) contain NLRB case material, minutes of negotiation meetings, contract proposals, and financial statements. The collection also includes activity reports, printed material, financial documents, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 11.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477288 View

Leighton, Joel B. Papers, 1942-1943.

Title: Papers, 1942-1943.

Leighton's files from his work with the Textile Workers Union of America, including information on an election at Burlington Dyeing and Finishing Company, Inc., to determine union representation; items on Cone Mills and Burlington Mills; the executive council report for the second biennial convention of the Textile Workers Union of America, 1941; and correspondence with prominent Congress of Industrial Organizations officials and T.W.U.A. officials such as Emil Rieve, Lucy Randolph Mason, George Baldanzi, and Paul R. Christopher.

ArchivalResource: 296 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19865922 View

United Textile Workers of America. Southern Region. Area B. Southern Region, Area B records, 1943-1975.

Title: Southern Region, Area B records, 1943-1975.

The collection consists of the records of the United Textile Workers of America, Southern Region, Area B from 1943-1975. Includes legal and financial documents, correspondence, minutes, and printed material pertaining to the dealings of UTWA Local 120 (Newberry, S.C.) with the Newberry Mills (1948-1975) and Local 434 (Bluefield, W. Va.) with the United Piece Dye Works (1948-1975). Correspondence, minutes, National Labor Relations Board case files, and negotiation materials document UTWA's unsuccessful organizing campaigns at P. Garvin (Spartanburg, S.C.) from 1961-1964 and Lawson United Feldspar and Mineral Company (Spruce Pine, N.C.) from 1966-1972. The collection also contains correspondence between UTWA President George Baldanzi and UTWA southern Co-Director Roy Whitmire concerning organizing efforts in North and South Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477290 View

United Textile Workers of America. President's correspondence, 1937-1957.

Title: President's correspondence, 1937-1957.

The collection consists of the correspondence of United Textile Workers of America Presidents Francis Gorman (1937-1939, 1941-1944); C.M. Fox (1939-1941); and Anthony Valente (1944-1957). Contains only a small amount of correspondence from 1937-1941 and none for 1947-1949. The correspondence documents organizing efforts in New England particularly New Bedford, Massachusetts and Lawrence, Massachusetts first as the TWOC (1937-1938) then as the UTWA (1945-1947). Includes information on the post World War II southern drive organizing campaigns in Asheville, North Carolina; Danville, Virginia; and Elizabethton, Tennessee. Materials document the 1946 attempt by the Dept. of Woolen and Worsted Workers to secede from the UTWA, TWUA Vice-President George Baldanzi's move to the UTWA, the 1950 purge of alleged communists from UTWA's Canadian office, and the competition between TWUA and UTWA to organize textile workers. Major correspondents include Frank Fenton, William Green, Roy Groenert, Joseph Jacobs, George Meany, Roy Whitmire, the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, the U.S. Dept. of Labor, and the AFL.

ArchivalResource: 10.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38475695 View

Barkan, Alexander E. Textile Workers Union of America oral history project interviews, 1977-1985.

Title: Textile Workers Union of America oral history project interviews, 1977-1985.

Tape-recorded oral interviews conducted with union leaders by James A. Cavanaugh of the Historical Society staff, documenting the origins, growth, and decline of the TWUA, internal disputes, relations with other unions, and organizing drives. The interviews document textile unionism prior to the formation of the TWUA, as well as discussing major strikes and gains made through collective bargaining. Specific references are made to organizing activities in Illinois, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Interviewees are Solomon Barkin, Adolph Benet, Emanuel "Slim" Boggs, Wesley W. Cook, Kenneth Fiester, William Gordon, Scott Hoyman, Joseph Hueter, George Perkel, Lawrence M. Rogin, Francis Schaufenbil, Sol Stetin, Paul Swaity, Norris Tibbetts, Edward Todd, George Watson, and Herbert S. Williams. Accompanying the tapes are abstracts of the interviews and an index which contains references to information in the interview on labor leaders George Baldanzi, Sidney Hillman, John L. Lewis, George Meany, William Pollock, Walter Reuther, and Emil Rieve and to numerous other trade unions. Also present are recorded speeches and music from a reunion of TWUA activists and staff in 1984; included is a speech by Alexander E. Barkan and textile labor songs by Joe Glazer.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) and102 tape recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701498 View

Ross, Charles L. (Charles Lewis), 1914-1984. Charles L. Ross papers, 1943-1952.

Title: Charles L. Ross papers, 1943-1952.

The papers of C. L. Ross, 1943-1952, labor organizer in Rome, Georgia, of the Textile Workers Union of America within the Celanese (before 1947, the Tubize) Corporation, include correspondence, a radio address, and printed material.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/192007724 View

Labor Leader Biographies, 1873-2010

Title: Labor Leader Biographies, 1873-2010

This collection consists of biographical data on various individuals prominent in labor unions in the United States since 1910. Includes articles, clippings, pamphlets, vita, obituaries and manuscript notes, filed alphabetically by name of individual..

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

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American Federation of Hosiery Workers. Branch 139 (Royersford, Pa.). Records, 1937-1958.

Title: Records, 1937-1958.

Records of a union local which represented employees of the Royersford Needle Works, manufacturers of parts for knitting machinery; including routine business and financial records, incoming correspondence, some contracts and arbitration hearing records, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and,24 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701683 View

Textile Workers Union of America. Greensboro-Burlington Joint Board. Records, 1939-1951.

Title: Records, 1939-1951.

Papers of the Greensboro-Burlington Joint Board of the Textile Workers Union of America (C.I.O.) contain correspondence, 1931-1945, of T.W.U.A. field representatives E.W. Witt, Haywood D. "Red" Lisk, L.L. Shepherd, and Bruno Rantane concerning grievances, contracts, wages, and a union election in the Piedmont Heights Division of Burlington Mills Corporation; and the correspondence, 1945-1951, of the business managers of the Board, Bruno Rantane and William F. Billingsley, with T.W.U.A. officials George Baldanzi, Solomon Harkins, Lewis M. Conn, William Pollock, and Emil Rieve. The main files of the Greensboro-Burlington Joint Board contain material from the national office of the T.W.U.A., including correspondence and items concerning education and research, and an incomplete set, 1946-1950, of Memorandum from Washington; letters from Lewis M. Conn, North Carolina director of the T.W.U.A.; minutes, correspondence and treasurer's reports of the Board; papers, 1948-1951, of locals, concerning work loads, seniority, rates, working conditions, and grivances; and material on various Cone Mills Corporation plants.

ArchivalResource: 11,124 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20400591 View

United Textile Workers of America. President's general files, 1936-1956.

Title: President's general files, 1936-1956.

The collection consists of the President's general files of the United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) from 1936-1956. Includes correspondence (1937-1953) concerning organizational situations in New England and the South, problems with the Dept. of Woolen and Worsted Workers, establishment of the UTWA Defense Fund, investigation of communism in UTWA Canadian leadership, George Baldanzi's return to the UTWA from the TWUA (1953), and the rebuilding of the UTWA after its re-chartering with the AFL. Additional materials in the collection include minutes of various labor organizations and conferences; membership rosters; radio broadcast scripts; and reports, speeches, and newspaper articles by Francis Gorman, Anthony Valente, and Lloyd Klenert.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38475703 View

Textile Workers Union of America. Records, 1915-1990.

Title: Records, 1915-1990.

Records of the union, its immediate predecessor, the Textile Workers Organizing Committee (1937-1939), and its predecessor and sometime competitor, the United Textile Workers of America (1901- ), including records of the TWUA international office, 1938-1962; New York and New Jersey state directors' offices, 1937-1961 and 1951-1961; the Research Division, 1937-1964; Executive Council, President's, Executive Vice-President's, and Secretary-Treasurer's offices; and Dyers and Printers, Education, Publications, Organizing, Cotton-Rayon, and Woolen-Worsted Divisions. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1915-1976, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date to 1990.

ArchivalResource: 870.8 c.f. (698 record center cartons, 432 archives boxes),25 reels of microfilm (35mm), and9 disc recordings; plusadditions of 625.4 c.f.,ca. 120 disc recordings,42 tape recordings and 1 carton of tapes,531 photographs,35 negatives,2 pieces of ephemera,7 filmstrips, and3 films.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/613678614 View