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

United States. Department of Labor

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United States. Supreme Court

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Supreme Court of the United States, final court of appeal and final expositor of the Constitution of the United States. Within the framework of litigation, the Supreme Court marks the boundaries of authority between state and nation, state and state, and government and citizen. Scope And Jurisdiction The Supreme Court was created by the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as the head of a federal court system, though it was not formally established until Congress passed the Judiciary Act in 17...

Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company

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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 waste-silk spinning method and the Grant's reel. At the beginning of World War I, the company employed over 4,700 workers. One out o...

Frank Vaas

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Textile Workers' Union of America

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Located in Boston, the TWUA began in 1937 as the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee of the CIO. By 1939, its success in organizing workers led to its becoming an independent CIO-affiliated union. One of the first victories was a contract with the American Woolen Co. in Lawrence, Mass. By 1942, mills in a number of New England cities were unionized. After World War II, the TWUA faced serious problems from national anti-labor legislation such as the Taft-Hartley Act, and the slump in the textil...

Manchester Businessman's Association

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United Textile Workers of America

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The United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) was chartered in 1901 and became a founding union of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1937. As part of the CIO, the UTWA was renamed the Textile Workers Organizing Committee (TWOC) then the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA). In 1939, a dissident faction of the TWUA sought for and was allowed to re-affiliate with the American Federation of Labor (AFL) under its original name the United Textile Workers of America. From...

Fall River-New Bedford Cotton Mfg.

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American arbitration association

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In January 1949 when the parties could not agree upon the terms of a new contract the union struck. When the strike was settled, it was agreed to submit to arbitration the following issues which the parties could not agree upon: payment of a 12% wage increase, retroactive to January 1, 1949; in lieu of overtime charges, a flat sum of $28 per month on non-propelled barges; when required to go on dock or aboard to make hose connections, a $2 payment per voyage made on self propelled vessels; and t...

Cheney, Ralph, 1806-1897

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A. Rhodes

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Kenyon Piece Dye Works

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Cheney, Frank, 1817-1904

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Bradford Dyeing

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Rufus S. Paret

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Snipes, William

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Dugal, Norman

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Robinson, Robinson and Cole

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Hess-Goldsmith Company

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William Vennart

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Golden Commissary Corp.

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National Safety Council.

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Robinson, Robinson and Cale

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Textiles Workers Union of America

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Henry DeWald

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Silk Association

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W. K. Cole

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Apponaug Co.

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American Arbitration Assoc.

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Silk Throwing Co.

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Cheney, Charles, 1803-1874

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F. Vaas

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Greenville Finishing Co.

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Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co.

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A.M. Tool & Machine Co.

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Auxiliary department

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Pioneer Parachute Company

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Workmen's Compensation Commission

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New England Provision Company

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Northern Textile Association.

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Two associations, the New Bedford Cotton Manufacturers' Association (NBC) and the Fall River Textile Manufacturers Association, were formed in New Bedford, Mass. in the early 20th century by textile manufacturers in the two cities to act in unison in labor matters. In 1945 the member mills of the two associations began to negotiate as a consolidated group with representatives of production employees at the various mills. Unions involved in negotiations included the Textile Workers Union of Ameri...

TWUA

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American Tool & Machine Co.

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Frances Kellor

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Hayward Schuster Woolen Mills

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James Hurley

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Stevenson Jordan & Harrison

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Morris Gorden, Inc.

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Edgar Brandt

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F. J. Vaas

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Tynan Throwing Company

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H. R. Mallery

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James Ellis

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