Papers, 1942-1943.

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Papers, 1942-1943.

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Leighton's files from his work with the Textile Workers Union of America, including information on an election at Burlington Dyeing and Finishing Company, Inc., to determine union representation; items on Cone Mills and Burlington Mills; the executive council report for the second biennial convention of the Textile Workers Union of America, 1941; and correspondence with prominent Congress of Industrial Organizations officials and T.W.U.A. officials such as Emil Rieve, Lucy Randolph Mason, George Baldanzi, and Paul R. Christopher.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6971741

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)

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The Committee for Industrial Organization was formed by the presidents of eight international unions in 1935. The presidents of these unions were dissatisfied with the American Federation of Labor's unwillingness to commit itself to a program of organizing industrial unions. In 1936, the A.F. of L. suspended the ten unions which proceeded to organize an independent federation, the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The CIO subsequently became the A.F. of L.'s chief rival for the leadership of...

Cone Mills Corporation

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Cone Mills Corporation (and predecessor Proximity Manufacturing Company and its other subsidiary and affiliated companies) manufactured denim and other textiles chiefly in North Carolina and South Carolina. Moses Herman Cone (1857-1908), Ceasar Cone (1859-1917), and other Cone family members began investing in the textile industry in the late nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century were world leaders in textile manufacturing. The collection consists of the records of Cone Mills ...

Burlington Dyeing and Finishing Company, Inc.

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Baldanzi, George, 1907-1972

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Burlington Mills Corporation

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Leighton, Joel B.

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National representative of the Textile Workers Union of America; resident of Greensboro (Guilford Co.), N.C. From the description of Papers, 1942-1943. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19865922 ...

Mason, Lucy Randolph, 1882-1959

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Public relations representative in the South for the Congress of Industrial Organizations and resident of Richmond, Va., and Atlanta, Ga. From the description of Papers, 1917-1954. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20019172 George Walter Mapp was born on 25 May 1873 to parents, Dr. John E. Mapp and Margaret Benson (LeCato) Mapp. In 1891, he received a degree of licentiate from the College of William and Mary. This qualified him to teach at the colle...

Christopher, Paul R.

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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...

Rieve, Emil, 1892-1975

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