Textile Workers of America New Bedford Joint Board Records 1942-1981

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Textile Workers of America New Bedford Joint Board Records 1942-1981

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Four local unions located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, that joined in 1939 and became the first affiliates of the New Bedford Joint Board of the Textile Workers Union of America. Includes by-laws, minutes of board of directors and local meetings, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and scrapbooks relating to the administration of the New Bedford Joint Board, documenting its role in addressing grievances filed against individual companies, in facilitating arbitration, and hearing wage stabilization Board cases.

19 boxes; (9 linear ft.)

eng,

Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries

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