Textile Workers Union of America. South Region Records, 1947-1981

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Textile Workers Union of America. South Region Records, 1947-1981

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/t/Textile_Workers_Union_of_America.South_Region.html

Scott Hoyman was an organizer and a bargainer with the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA), serving as the Southern Regional Director in the 1960s and 1970s. The TWUA actively sought to organize southern textile plants to help workers achieve higher wages, health insurance, and other benefits, and to insure fair labor practices. The collection contains correspondence, reports, minutes, agendas, pro-union and anti-union handouts and flyers, clippings, pictures, and other materials related to Scott Hoyman's activities with the TWUA. Materials document the internal functions of the TWUA, such as meetings, conferences, elections, and funding; the union's work with various organizations, including the Federation of Textile Representatives (FTR), and the AFL-CIO; TWUA's merger with Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to become the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU); organizing campaigns in North Carolina and South Carolina, most notably the J. P. Stevens Campaign; staff training and education; organizing tactics; membership drives and figures; the union's policies on political and industrial issues; and trends and events in the textile industry. Notable subjects include biennial conventions, Chatham Manufacturing Company, Collins & Aikman Corporation, Erwin Cotton Mills, executive council meetings, the Federation of Textile Representatives, GARCO (General Asbestos and Rubber Division, Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.), handouts and flyers, Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, J. P. Stevens & Co., Lone Star Textiles, outgoing mail, and southern staff conferences.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6629291

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Textile Workers Union of America. South Region.

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Scott Hoyman was an organizer and a bargainer with the Textile Worker's Union of America (TWUA), serving as the Southern Regional Director in the 1960s and 1970s. The TWUA actively sought to organize southern textile plants to help workers achieve higher wages, health insurance, and other benefits, and to insure fair labor practices. From the description of Textile Workers Union of America. South Region records, 1947-1991 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 52857039 ...

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Lone Star Textiles

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Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills

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