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AFL-CIO. Internal Disputes Plan. Decisions of the Impartial Umpire, 1964-1976.

Title: AFL-CIO. Internal Disputes Plan. Decisions of the Impartial Umpire, 1964-1976.

This is a collection of decisions of the Impartial Umpire in AFL-CIO Internal Disputes.

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United Textile Workers of America. United Textile Workers of America local union records, 1940-1969 (bulk 1946-1956).

Title: United Textile Workers of America local union records, 1940-1969 (bulk 1946-1956).

The collection consists of records of local unions of the United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) from 1940-1969 with the bulk of records between 1946-1956. Includes correspondence, membership rosters, contract proposals, financial and legal documents, and industry data. The correspondence constitutes the largest segment and includes correspondence with New England and Middle Atlantic local officers and Southern Director Joseph Jacobs. Materials pertain to dues payment; per-capita taxes; defense fund contributions; local news for the union newspaper the TEXTILE CHALLENGER; contract negotiation, interpretation, and recognition; activities of the TWUA-CIO; local unions' political activity; factional feuding between local unions; grievance settlements; arbitration hearings; the textile industry; and National Labor Relations Board cases.

ArchivalResource: 9.5 linear ft.

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Northern Textile Association. [Records]

Title: [Records] 1935-1955.

Records date from 1935-1955 and present a picture of labor relations and negotiations in New Bedford and Fall River from the mill management point of view. Topics covered include labor negotiations and agreements, grievances and arbitration, general labor matters and labor legislation. Records of NBC make up the largest part of the collection and include correspondence, memoranda and bulletins to member mills, news clippings, press releases, pamphlets and booklets, legal briefs and copies of union agreements. Much of the correspondence is from members of the Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge & Rugg, including Charles B. Rugg, William F. Sullivan and Francis J. Vaas. Correspondence from Fred W. Steele, Executive Secretary of both associations, and Seabury Stanton of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., is also included. Records for FRNA center around the 1953 and 1954 wage re-opening negotiations and the 1955 contract negotiations. They contain agreements of the association, correspondence, memoranda, superseded contracts, and statements of workers and management.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes (15.5 ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60527623 View

Bush, Carroll H. [Papers].

Title: [Papers]. 1919-1940.

Contains forms, flyers, blank pledge cards, and guidelines for union organizers from various labor unions for hosiery workers, including the American Federation of Hosiery Workers, New England Hosiery Workers, the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, and the Federation of Woolen and Worsted Workers of America. Also contains incoming correspondence, 1926-1929, 1934-1940, concerning union activities, most from various hosiery workers' unions and from the United Textile Workers of America; Bush's monthly dues book, 1919-1927, in the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers; and resolutions concerning the 30-hour week and other items of interest to labor. Includes pamphlets, proceedings, constitutions, bylaws, etc., of various hosiery unions, and copies of Textile Notes, 1937-1938, published by the Labor Research Association.

ArchivalResource: 1 box ; 27 x 6 x 32 cm.

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Cleveland Worsted Mills Company records, 1890-1946.

Title: Cleveland Worsted Mills Company records, 1890-1946.

Consists of appraisal inventories, blueprints, and a pamphlet.

ArchivalResource: 2 containers (0.81 linear ft.)

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Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company Records., undated, 1734-1979.

Title: Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company Records. undated, 1734-1979.

In 1838, six Cheney brothers established the Mount Nebo Silk Company in Manchester, CT. The company adopted the family name in 1843. Aided by booming national markets, a protective tariff, and innovative production methods, the company grew into the nation's largest and most profitable silk mill by the late 1880s. The company pioneered the wastesilk spinning method and the Grant's reel. The company reached its peak in 1923, after which it quickly declined due to industry wide overproduction and competition from new synthetic fibers such as rayon. Although it revived slightly during World War II, the family sold the company to J. P. Stevens and Company in 1955. J. P. Stevens quickly liquidated the equipment and the remainder was sold to Gerli Incorporated of New York. In 1978, the mills and surrounding neighborhood were declared a National Historical Landmark District. The mill was permanently closed in 1984. Most of the mill buildings were sold to developers who converted them into luxury apartments and offices.

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Immigration Restriction League (U.S.) records, 1893-1921

Title: Immigration Restriction League (U.S.) records

Records of the Immigration Restriction League (U.S.), especially those of Prescott F. (Farnsworth) Hall, one of the founders and executive secretary from 1896-1921.

ArchivalResource: 12.4 linear feet (24 boxes and 17 volumes)

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AFL-CIO Internal Disputes Plan Decisions of the Impartial Umpire, 1964-1976.

Title: AFL-CIO Internal Disputes Plan Decisions of the Impartial Umpire, 1964-1976.

This is a collection of AFL-CIO Internal Disputes with decisions of the Impartial Umpire.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

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United Textile Workers of America. Research Dept. correspondence, 1946-1956.

Title: Research Dept. correspondence, 1946-1956.

The collection consists of correspondence of the Research Dept. of the United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) from 1946-1956 spanning the administrations of Research Directors Benjamin Haskel (1946-1952) and Frank Gorman (1952-1956). Materials relate primarily to technical matters involving communications with UTWA officials and international representatives. Files include information regarding local union compliance with Taft-Hartley Act provisions, time motion studies, worker education programs, visits from foreign textile workers/unionists, the preparation of testimony for presentation to congressional committees, gathering financial reports on textile firms, compiling/distributing information on negotiation sessions, wage rates, and work load data. Since the Research Director edited the UTWA newspaper, the TEXTILE CHALLANGER, information relating to gathering news stories and photographs from organizers, subscription and distribution matters, and correspondence with other labor newspapers or labor press associations makes up a large portion of the series. Major correspondents include Roy Groenert, Joseph Krause, Joseph Jacobs, Phillip Salem, Frank Sgambato, John Vertente, the American Standards Association, the American Friends Service Committee, the International Labor Press Association, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, the U.S. Dept. of Labor, and the AFL.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

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Clifton Mills (S.C.). Personnel and Employee Relations Series, 1881-1966, (bulk 1915-1966).

Title: Personnel and Employee Relations Series, 1881-1966, (bulk 1915-1966).

Clifton Manufacturing Company provided medical care for employees hurt on the job and these accidents were reported in the nurse's daily and monthly reports. When outside care was needed, there were several doctors that provided care in the Spartanburg area. Included in these records are children's and families' special clinic reports, nurse's daily and monthly reports and correspondence with several area doctors concerning employees. Textile unions played an important part in the history of the Clifton Manufacturing Company. From its starting date of 1881, unions tried to organize the mills. However, it was not until the General Strike of 1934 that some unionization of Clifton Mills occurred. Records are fragmentary concerning the 1934 strike. The first agreement with the Textile Workers Unions of America is 1941. Correspondence indicates that there was a possible strike in 1940 at the #2 Mill. There was a small strike in June 1942 at #1 but the bulk of the records concern the loom fixers strike of 1949-1950. Included in these records are correspondence with the unions, negotiating committees meeting records, grievance data, personal grievances, internal correspondence and reports, notes and reports on striking employees, correspondence to the company and stock reports at the beginning of the strike. Also included are union agreements with other textile mills in the state, Textile Labor and National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) publications.

ArchivalResource: 19 boxes (9.5 cubic ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35753198 View

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 155 (New York, N.Y.). ILGWU. Local 155 recordss, 1933-1995.

Title: ILGWU. Local 155 recordss, 1933-1995.

The Local 155 records consist primarily of the correspondence of Louis Nelson, manager of Local 155 during the period. There are also articles, speeches, and other materials, as well as a small amount of Nelson's personal correspondence. Individual correspondents represented in the collection include Angela Balabanoff, Fred Beal, B.J. Bialostotzky, David Dubinsky, Melech Epstein, Fiorello LaGuardia, Elias Lieberman, Jay Lovestone, Norman Thomas, and Carlo Tresca. Organizations include the AFL-CIO, the American Labor Party, the Italian-American Labor Council, the Jewish Labor Committee, the Liberal Party of New York, the National Urban League, the Socialist Party, the Union for Democratic Socialism, the United Textile Workers Union of America, and Workmen's Circle. Also includes minutes of Local 155's Executive Board between 1979 and 1995, issues of the local's publication, Knitgood Workers' Voice, from 1937 to 1995, files on Joe Lombardo and the Local 155's Health and Welfare Fund.

ArchivalResource: 12 linear feet.

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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

United Textile Workers of America. Secretary-Treasurer's correspondence, 1946-1952.

Title: Secretary-Treasurer's correspondence, 1946-1952.

The collection consists of correspondence and related materials of Secretary-Treasurer Lloyd Klenert of the United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) from 1946-1952. Includes correspondence with UTWA officials, International representatives and organizers concerning local union affiliation with AFL central labor councils and state federations, status reports from organizers, reports from arbitration and negotiation sessions, per capita tax payments to the UTWA and the AFL, local union contributions to the UTWA Defense Fund, credentials of UTWA and AFL convention delegates, and information concerning local union participation in Labor's League for Political Education. Correspondents include William Green, George Meany, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the National Labor Relations Board, the Labor Dept. of Canada, the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, and the International Labor Office.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.

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ILGWU. Local 155 records, 1933-1995

Title: ILGWU. Local 155 records, 1933-1995

The Local 155 records consist primarily of thecorrespondence of Louis Nelson, manager of Local 155 during the period. There arealso articles, speeches, and other materials, as well as a small amount of Nelson'spersonal correspondence.

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United States. National Recovery Administration. National Industrial Recovery Administration (NIRA), Hearing reports, 1934-1944.

Title: National Industrial Recovery Administration (NIRA), Hearing reports, 1934-1944.

1. Coat and Suit Industry, volumes 1 and 2 ; 2. Pleating, stitching, Bonnaz and Hand Embroidery Industry, Volumes 1,2,3.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

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J. William Belanger Papers MS 117., 1932-1986

Title: J. William Belanger Papers 1932-1986

Union activist and leader who was the first President of the Massachusetts State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, and who also served on a number of governmental agencies, civic agencies, and commissions. Includes correspondence, biographical material, writings, scrapbooks, subject files, newsclippings; and pamphlets, manuals, and other printed materials. Scrapbooks comprise the bulk of the collection and include correspondence, news clippings, photographs, postcards, and various memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes; (3 linear ft.)

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Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968. [Letter].

Title: [Letter]. 1930.

The letter, dated Nov. 6, 1930, asks for contributions in money or clothing to aid striking workers. It describes a strike of members of a local of the United Textile Workers of America in Danville, Virginia, and one of members of the United Mine Workers in Kelly's Creek, West Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50774711 View

Weed, Anna. [Papers].

Title: [Papers]. 1935.

The collection concerns the labor disturbances and strike in 1935 at the Cocheco Woolen Manufacturing Co. in East Rochester (Rochester), N.H. It contains three letters to Weed: one, June 22, 1935, from Guy Smart, an attorney in Rochester, N.H., acknowledging her letter; another, June 17, 1935, from a secretary to Gov. Styles Bridges, acknowledging her letter to the governor; and a third, July 3, 1935, from William N. Rogers, U.S. Congressman, indicating that the labor disturbances at Cocheco are a local question about which he can do nothing. Also contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1935, about the strike and the United Textile Workers of America, which represented the workers.

ArchivalResource: 1 box ; 27 x 6 x 40 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50985353 View

United Textile Workers of America. United Textile Workers of America records, 1936-1969.

Title: United Textile Workers of America records, 1936-1969.

The collection consists of the records of the United Textile Workers of America from 1936-1969. Includes President's correspondence (1937-1957), Secretary-Treasurer's correspondence (1946-1952), Research Dept. correspondence (1946-1956), Local unions (1940-1969), President's general files (1936-1956), and Research Dept. general files (1930-1967).

ArchivalResource: 51 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38475680 View

Singer, Steven. Singer, Steven. Labor collection. Memorabilia.

Title: Singer, Steven. Labor collection. Memorabilia.

This collection consists of badges, Union buttons, and other assorted Union memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/608236699 View

Massachusetts. Division of State Police. Criminal Information Section. [Records].

Title: [Records]. 1920-1923.

Includes correspondence, memos and records of investigations of labor activity by the Federated Textile Unions of America, the Textile Workers' Union and the United Textile Workers in textile mills in Mass. Included are reports about the Arlington Mill, Duck Mill, Everett Mill, Pemberton Mill and Upper Pacific Mill in Lawrence; the Methuen Mill, in Methuen; the Hamilton Mill and the Bay State Cotton Mill in Lowell; the Ludlow Manufacturing Co. in Ludlow; the Crown Mill in Pawtucket, R.I. and South Attleboro, Mass.; Union Wadding Co. in Pawtucket and South Attleboro; the Otis Co. in Ware, etc. Information on the ethnicity, languages and political organizations of the workers is included. Also contains general reports on the cotton industry and labor activity in New Bedford, Fall River and Taunton, Mass., as well as records about the Rockport Granite Co., Rockport and Gloucester, Mass., and a strike at the J.H. Winchell Shoe Factory, Haverhill, Mass. Contains a letter, 1922, to the Commissioner of Public Safety from D. Chauncey Brewer, president of the North American Civic League for Immigrants in Boston about activity in the mills in Nashua, N.H. and a meeting about the Sacco-Vanzetti case attended by a League special agent. Includes pamphlets and newspaper clippings from local and ethnic newspapers, the Industrial Workers of the World, the Communist Party (including the General Council of the United Labor Bodies), anarchist organizations, etc. Contains a list of "Communist and anarchist newspapers" and the following left-wing publications, 1921-1923, collected by the department: The Metropolis: A Magazine of the City of New York, New York; Soviet Russia: Official Organ of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau, New York; The Federated Press Bulletin: Official Organ of the Federated Press League, Chicago; The Leader, Lawrence, Mass.; Reconstruction: An Organ to Promote Political and Economic Reconstruction in Central and Eastern Europe [in English], Vienna; Anzeiger und Post, Lawrence, Mass.; The Worker, New York; Americanskye Izvestia, New York; The Workers' Challenge, New York; L'Agitazione: Organo del Comitato de Difesa pro Sacco e Vanzetti, Boston.

ArchivalResource: 1 box ; 27 x 6 x 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50863453 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.

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Cooke, Robert Bruce, 1902-1973. Robert Bruce Cooke papers, 1926-1972 [manuscript].

Title: Robert Bruce Cooke papers, 1926-1972 [manuscript].

Included are a few items relating to the Pearl Cotton Mills, Durham, N.C., the Virginia Cotton Mills, Swepsonville, N.C., and the Mooresville Cotton Mills, Mooresville, N.C. Most items, however, relate to the Erwin Cotton Mills and include a 1909 work contract and many other items relating to the relationship between Erwin Mills and the United Textile Workers of America. Besides unionization, there are also items about workers losing jobs to machines. Many items in the 1940s relate to war production and rationing. Also included are letters, 1926-1954, relating to Cooke's numerous job searches. Although rarely unemployed, Cooke seems always to have sought a better position within the textile industry and sent, during this period, an almost continuous stream of letters of inquiry to most mills operating in the southeast. There are also materials relating to organizations in which Robert and Aylene were active, especially the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley, the English-Speaking Union, the North Carolina Society of County and Local Historians, and the Sons of the American Revolution.

ArchivalResource: 420 items (3.0 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31908596 View

Guide to the Tamiment Library Newspapers, 1873-2014

Title: Guide to the Tamiment Library Newspapers, 1873-2014

The collection contains some 523 titles to date (September 2018). They were published by international and local labor unions in the United States and Canada, radical political parties (Anarchist, Communist, Maoist, Socialist, Trotskyist), the New Left, and by organizations representing civil rights movements (African-Americans, prisoners, etc.), peace movements, protest against the war in Vietnam (including titles published by American soldiers), activity in support of national liberation movements, student and youth activism, the counterculture, feminism and gay liberation, and other activism. While most of the titles are from the U.S., and of these about one fourth are from New York State, there are also some foreign titles, most from Western Europe, primarily Great Britain, France, Italy and Spain. The holdings continue to grow through donations and subscriptions. While the majority of the titles lack catalog records in BobCat, NYU's electronic library catalog, retrospective cataloging is taking place. An unpublished guide available in the library shows holdings information for each title.

ArchivalResource: 290 Linear Feet in 657 boxes

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/periodicals_001/periodicals_001.html View

Crawford, Pearle L. [Scrapbook].

Title: [Scrapbook]. 1934-1935.

Newspaper clippings compiled by Crawford primarily about a strike, 1934-1935, at the Stevens Linen Works in Webster, Mass., by members of the United Textile Workers of America. Also includes some clippings about strikes against the Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, Ludlow, Mass., and the Ohio Carpet Co., West Warren (Warren), Mass., both by members of the UTWA. Accompanied by a poem by an unidentified author alluding to the settlement of the strike at Stevens Linen Works.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51389433 View

Groenert, Roy, 1913-. Roy Groenert papers, 1941-1973.

Title: Roy Groenert papers, 1941-1973.

The collection consists of materials that illuminate Groenert's interests in local union affairs, and in the UTWA's suit which brought enforcement of the no-raid pacts signed after the merger of the AFL-CIO.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51217309 View

Cantor, Bernard H., 1920-. Bernard H. Cantor Papers, 1959-1986.

Title: Bernard H. Cantor Papers, 1959-1986.

Collection consists of labor union arbitration awards made by Cantor; Abitration Review Board Decisions; contracts between unions and companies; and printed documents used as resource materials by Cantor.

ArchivalResource: 22 boxes (11 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34134511 View

International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. President's Office. Government hearings files of Presidential Assistant Les Finnegan, 1948-1959 (bulk 1952-1957).

Title: Government hearings files of Presidential Assistant Les Finnegan, 1948-1959 (bulk 1952-1957).

From 1948 to 1959 the UE and other alleged Communist-dominated unions became the chief focus of congressional and federal probes concerning Communist infiltration of American labor unions and vital defense industries. The IUE and Carey, seeking to discredit the UE's left-wing leadership in hopes of fomenting a disaffiliation movement among remaining UE locals, offered its full cooperation in providing evidence and key witnesses to substantiate UE ties to the Communist Party of America (CPA) and other Communist-front organizations. Carey's testimony before various House and Senate subcommittees is contained within this series. Several IUE members--formerly associated with the UE and CPA--were key witnesses in the HUAC hearings and the "Red" probes associated with the McCarthy era. Lee Lundgren, Samuel DiMiria, Ernst Pollock, and James B. McLeish appeared before the HUAC and chronicled communist influence within UE locals and districts in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and the New England region.

ArchivalResource: 3.75 cubic ft.

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Textile Workers Union of America. [Business records].

Title: [Business records]. 1939-1980.

Records include materials from the international office probably kept and annotated by Alton Hodgman, a union official. They contain primarily executive council minutes, resolutions and reports, 1964-1977. The bulk of the records relate to the New England area office and contain target files, 1950-1977, arranged alphabetically by manufacturer, with forms, correspondence, bulk mailings, campaign materials, lists of workers and votes. Also contains agreements, 1947-1971, between TWUA and various companies, an information file, 1956-1973, and campaign materials used in New England mills, 1949-1971. Also included are files of William Belanger, New England Area Director, 1945-1964; J. Harold Daoust, New England Regional Director, 1964-1973; and R. Bertrand Demers, New England Organizing Coordinator in the 1970's. Also contains records of Alton Hodgman, who served in international, area and local capacities. Records include director's files for Greater Boston Joint Board, 1952-1956; hearing files, 1964-1974; and general, annual and conference files, 1953-1978. Also includes files of the Greater Lawrence, Greater Lowell and Greater Boston Joint Boards, with membership records, financial records, and minutes. Minutes, charters and by-laws of various locals are also included. Information files, 1956-1973, covering topics of interest to the organization are also found in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 60 ft. (88 boxes + 24 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49628060 View

Payton, Boyd E., 1908-. Papers, 1909-1980.

Title: Papers, 1909-1980.

Primarily material relating to the involvement of this Textile Workers Union of America official in a strike at Harriet-Henderson Mills in Henderson, N.C. (1958-61), his conviction and subsequent imprisonment amidst allegations of a state-supported frame-up, and his eventual pardon. Includes correspondence, transcripts of radio broadcasts, clippings, audio-visual material, and manuscripts of his book, Scapegoat (1970).

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear feet (ca. 6, 300 items, including 19 photographs, 9 recordings, 2 films, and 3 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46832973 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

Payton, Boyd E., 1908-. Papers, 1929-1946.

Title: Papers, 1929-1946.

Miscellaneous papers including items on the poll tax in the South; pamphlets relating to labor unions and the South, the poll tax, and strikes; clippings dealing principally with the American Federation of Labor (AFL), AFL publicity, South Carolina Federation of Labor Convention, United Textile Workers of America convention, communists, and the Bessemer City strike; scrapbook, 1929, with clippings pertaining to the southern textile strike in that year; and scrapbook, 1946, containing information on the Danville (Va.) Citizens' Committee, a group organized to fight inflation and high prices in Danville.

ArchivalResource: 176 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20072281 View

Maxwell Copelof arbitration files, ca. 1940-ca. 1970.

Title: Maxwell Copelof arbitration files, ca. 1940-ca. 1970.

Contains transcripts, briefs, awards, and decisions relating to cases arbitrated by Maxwell Copelof.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/KCL05129.xml View

Lebell, Arthur,. Maine State Federated Labor Council interviews, 1972 Sept.

Title: Maine State Federated Labor Council interviews, 1972 Sept.

Interviews, with transcript, from Biddeford, Bangor, and Sanford, Me., area, with Arthur Lebell of the Maine State Federated Labor Council; with Herman Ackroyd of the United Textile Workers at Sanford; and with Alexander Anastosoff of the TWUA (Textile Workers Union of America) at Biddeford.

ArchivalResource: 4 audiotapes (3 hr.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70955253 View

Nord, Elisabeth, 1902-. Oral history interview with Antoinette Podojil, 1975.

Title: Oral history interview with Antoinette Podojil, 1975.

In 1978, the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University conducted oral history interviews with trade-union women. Major subjects covered were: women in trade-unions, wages and benefits, working conditions, and social issues.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 75 leaves ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32321616 View

Sonia Baltrun Kaross oral history, 1977

Title: Sonia Baltrun Kaross oral history 1977

Contains a transcribed copy of Lucille Kendall's 1977 interviews with Sonia Baltrun Kaross and ephemera documenting Kaross' personal life and activities as a feminist; Socialist and Communist activist; Lithuanian writer; United Textile Workers (UTW) organizer and representative; and pacifist in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and California, from the 1900s to the 1970s.

ArchivalResource: 3 folders; (0.5 Linear feet)

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American Federation of Hosiery Workers. Records, 1922-1965.

Title: Records, 1922-1965.

Records of a progressive national union representing workers in the hosiery and textile industry, including meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, arbitration briefs and decisions, annual reports, contracts, pension files, insurance files, convention proceedings, grievances, press releases, circulars, and newspaper clippings. The materials document the union from its early years to its merger in 1965 with the Textile Workers Union of America, as well as its affiliation first with the American Federation of Labor and later with the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The records document the organization and administration of the union, contracts and negotiations, job descriptions, wage rates, pensions, health insurance, political action, community affairs, and foreign trade. With a large proportion of women members, the issues of women's rights, education, and housing were of particular interest to the union. The Carl Mackley Houses, the first major low-income government housing project in the United States, administered by the Juniata Park Housing Corp., and the Carl Mackley Nursery School in Philadelphia, are both well documented. Correspondents include prominent union officials and labor leaders Emil Rieve, Paul Abelson, Andrew Janaskie, Adolph Benet, John McCoy, Jackson Curry, and Cyrus S. Ching. The collection also includes materials on the American Arbitration Association, G. Allan Dash and other arbitrators, the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers, the AFL-CIO, and local AFHW branches.

ArchivalResource: 71.6 c.f. (180 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145782769 View

United Textile Workers of America. Research Dept. general files, 1930-1967.

Title: Research Dept. general files, 1930-1967.

The collection consists of the records of the Research Dept. of the United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) from 1930-1967. Includes correspondence, speeches, reports, press releases, minutes, and technical data. Materials relate to the Taft Hartley Act; the Fair Labor Standards Act; time motion studies; industrial safety; textile statistics; organizing campaigns in Fall River and New Bedford, Massachusetts; and Elizabethton, Tennessee. Major correspondents include the American Standards Association, the American Federation of Labor, the U.S. Dept. of Labor, and the Dept. of Woolen and Worsted Workers.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38475706 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.

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Achroyd, Herman,. Oral history interview, 1972 Sept. 09.

Title: Oral history interview, 1972 Sept. 09.

Interview with Achroyd, at Sanford, relating to his activities as laborer in the Sanford woolen mill, with other family members; effect of Depression on the mill; slow organization of labor; efforts of United Textile Workers of America and Textile Workers Union of America to organize the workers; Taft-Hartley Act of 1947; Maine State Labor Organization; organization of locals in Dexter and Oakland, Me.; and interactions between local politicians and local labor organizations.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope.

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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Jacob Potofsky correspondence, 1930-1946, 1930-1940 (bulk).

Title: Jacob Potofsky correspondence, 1930-1946, 1930-1940 (bulk).

Correspondence documenting Jacob Potofsky's activities while serving in several capacities for the ACWA, including assistan president and assistant general secretary-treasurer. Correspondence documenting Jacob Potofsky's activities while serving in several capacities for the ACWA, including assistant president and assistant general secretary-treasurer. Individuals represented in the collection include: Mary Anderson; Alben Barkley; August Bellanca; Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca; Sidney Hillman; David Dubinsky; Fiorello LaGuardia; John L. Lewis; Tom Mooney; Joseph Schlossberg; Rose Schneiderman; Robert F. Wagner; and Matthew Woll. Major organizations represented include: the AFL; the American Labor Party; Brookwood Labor College; Consumers Union; the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union; the Jewish Daily Forward; the Jewish Labor Committee; Labor's Non-Partisan League; the National Consumers' League; the National Labor Relations Board; the National Recovery Administration; the Rand School of Social Science; the U.S. Dept. of Labor; the United Textile Workers of America; the Works Progress Administration; and various subordinate units of the ACWA.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft.

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Copelof, Maxwell, 1897-. Arbitration files, ca. 1940-ca. 1970.

Title: Arbitration files, ca. 1940-ca. 1970.

Contains transcripts, briefs, awards, and decisions relating to cases arbitrated by Maxwell Copelof. Contains transcripts, briefs, awards, and decisions relating to cases arbitrated by Maxwell Copelof. Significant cases include Amalgamated Bank of New York vs. United Office and Professional Workers of America (UOPWA) on the issue of job assignment (1941); American Bank Note Company vs. International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America and Paper Handlers and Straighteners Union on issues of managerial prerogatives and starting and quitting times (1947); American Cyanamid Company vs. United Mine Workers of America, District 50, on issues of rates of pay, job classification, layoffs, and arbitrability (1949); American Hardware Corp. vs. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) on issues of rates of pay, seniority, vacation pay, and retroactive pay (1946-1947); Other significant cases include American Hide and Leather Company vs. International Fur and Leather Workers' Union on issues of standards of production and rates of pay (1945); American Locomotive Company vs. United Steelworkers of America (USWA) on issues of overtime, schedules of work, time and motion studies, rates of pay, vacations and vacation pay (1943-1947); American Table Manufacturing Company vs. United Furniture Workers of America (UFW) on issues of rates of pay, job classification, holidays, holiday pay, and vacation pay (1942-1944); and American Woolen Company vs. Textile Workers' Union of America (TWUA) on issues of schedules of work, rates of pay, and reinstatement following illness or physical disability (1942-1949). Other cases include Amoskeag-Lawrence Mills, Inc. vs. TWUA on issues of standards of production, workload, rates of pay, managerial rights, arbitrability, discipline, discharge, layoff, and elimination of jobs (1945-1948); Arlington Mills vs. Federation of Woolen and Worsted Workers, AFL, on issues of standards of production, workload, rates of pay, equal pay for equal work, overtime, job classification, and bonus pay (1942-1946); Amory Worsted Mills vs. TWUA on issues of rates of pay, piecework vs. day work, vacations, vacation pay, and managerial prerogatives (1947-1948); Associated Shoe Industries, Inc. vs. International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers on issues of rates of pay, holidays, and holiday pay (1946-1949); and Avon Sole Co. vs. Brotherhood of Shoe and Allied Craftsmen, Rubber Sole and Heel Local, on issues of classification of jobs, rates of pay, discipline and discharge (1944-1949). Additional cases include Baldau Co. vs. United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) on issues of rates of pay, discrimination, and recall (1949); Beggs & Cobb, Inc. vs. International Fur and Leather Workers' Union on the issue of rates of pay (n.d.); Beko Spinning Mill vs. TWUA on issues of union shop and schedules of work (1946); Bendix Corporation vs. United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) on issues of job assignment, added duties, elimination of jobs, promotion, seniority, and tardiness (1945); Boston Sausage and Provision Co. vs. UPWA on issues of discharge, standards of production, work breaks, overtime pay, performance of bargaining unit work by foremen and supervisors, violation of plant rules, holiday pay, layoff, and seniority (1942-1950); and Branch River Wool Combing Co. vs. TWUA on issues of work stoppage, past practice, insubordination, absenteeism, back pay, elimination of jobs, leave of absence, reduction in workforce, job transfers, contract modification, rates of pay, reporting pay, and vacation pay. Other cases include Celanese Corporation of America vs. UMW, District 50, on issues of working conditions and safety in shop (1947); Colonial Provision Co., Inc vs. UPWA on issues of rates of pay and disciplinary discharge (1942-1949); Corset and Brassiere Manufacturers Association vs. Corset and Brassiere Workers Union on issues of strikes and slowdowns (1939); Cranston Print Works Co. vs. United Textile Workers of America on issues of rates of pay, union security, standards of production, workload, discrimination, and union activities (1946); Endicott-Johnson Company vs. various operating employees of E-J on issues of rates of pay (1943-1945); Endicott-Johnson vs. United Shoe Workers of America on the issue of rates of pay (1945); and Fitchburg Yarn Co. vs. TWUA on issues of vacancies, seniority, arbitrability, and assignment of jobs (1945-1949). Other cases include Geisenheimer-Lewin, Inc. vs. Underwear and Negligee Workers Union on issues of rates of pay and discrimination (1938); General Cable Corp. vs. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) on issues of transfers, seniority, vacations, rates of pay, and equal pay for equal work (1943-1946); Gimbel Bros. vs. General Warehousemen's Union on issues of rates of pay and contract modification (1941); Gimbel Bros. vs. Retail Clerks International Protective Association on issues of contract modification and rates of pay (1941); Gimbel Bros. vs. Stenographers, Bookkeepers, Typists, Accountants and Assistants Union of Pittsburgh on issues of contract modification and rates of pay (1941); Gimbels Thirty-Third St. and Saks Thirty-Fourth St. vs. Department Store Employees Union on the issue of reinstatement (1949); and Gold Seal Shoe Co. vs. United Shoe Workers of America on issues of rates of pay, discipline, discharge, strikes, slowdowns, composition of bargaining unit, and assignment of jobs (1942-1944). Additional cases include International Shoe Company vs. United Shoe Workers of America on issues of rates of pay, disciplinary discharge, daywork vs. piecework, layoffs, promotions, transfers, filling of job vacancies, incentive pay, reinstatement following physical disability, reinstatement following leave of absence, disciplinary layoff, retroactive pay after pay rate revision, relation of foremen to bargaining unit, job classification, and discrimination in rates of pay (1943-1948); Monsanto Chemical Corp. vs. UE on issues of vacation pay, job classification, working conditions, rates of pay, equal pay for equal work, disciplinary layoff, job assignment, and disciplinary action for insubordination (1945-1949); Murray Co. vs. UE on issues of job jurisdiction, disciplinary discharge, and disciplinary suspension (1943-1944); and Mutual Shoe Co. vs. Marlboro Shoe Workers Associates, Inc. on the issue of reinstatement following military service (1943). Other cases include New York and Brooklyn Casket Company, Inc. vs. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America on the issue of reinstatement following military service (1945); and Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. (Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Co.) vs. Federation of Glass, Ceramic and Silica Sand Workers of America on issues of contracting out union work, managerial prerogatives, seniority, rates of pay, contract modification, insubordination, standards of production, incentive pay, crew size, arbitrability, disciplinary layoff, job transfers, union security, and job jurisdiction (1943-1946). Other cases include Taber Instrument Corp. vs. UE on issues of discrimination and union representation (1947); Valley Motor Transit Co. vs. International Association Machinists (IAM) on the issue of interest arbitration (1944); Valley Motor Transit Co. vs. Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America on the issue of interest arbitration (1944); and West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. vs. United Paperworkers of America on issues of rate revision, rates of pay, discrimination, job classification, introduction of new technology, creation of new jobs, promotion, retroactive pay, discharge for improper personal conduct, layoff, job assignment, change in location, functions of supervisors and foremen, and reduction in workforce (1948-1950). Also substantial numbers of additional routine arbitrations in the shoe, women's clothing industry, and local transit industries.

ArchivalResource: 9 linear ft.

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