Papers, 1946-1953.

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Papers, 1946-1953.

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Papers principally relate to efforts to organize textile industry workers in South Carolina's piedmont region. Correspondence is principally that of Franz E. Daniel, South Carolina director of the C.I.O. Organizing Committee, 1946-1950, and state director of the Textile Workers of America Union, 1946-1949, and of Lloyd P. Vaughn, South Carolina director of the C.I.O. Organizing Committee, 1950-1953, with union officials of the C.I.O., the Organizing Committee, and the T.W.A.U. There are also references to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the International Woodworkers of America, the United Furniture Workers of America, the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union of America, the Communications Workers of America, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, and material on labor-related groups such as the American Arbitration Association, the Labor Press Association, Inc., and the National Religion and Labor Foundation. Also included are press releases, pamphlets, financial papers, clippings, and reports.

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Daniel, Franz E., 1904-1976

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National Religion and Labor Foundation (U.S.)

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C.I.O. Organizing Committee. South Carolina.

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Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America

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United Furniture Workers of America

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International Woodworkers of America

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Communications Workers of America

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