Records, 1935-1951.

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Records, 1935-1951.

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The papers of the Mecklenburg County Joint Board of the T.W.U.A. (C.I.O.) include the files, 1942-1951, of James H. Fullerton, business manager of the Mecklenburg County Joint Board, including correspondence with union officials Emil Rieve, William Pollock, Solomon Barkin, Lewis M. Conn, and William J. Smith; and material pertaining to grievances, arbitration, agreements, and contracts with various textile manufacturers. In general the papers concern benefits, wages, unemployment compensation, the Employment Security Act in North Carolina, the National Labor Relations Board, the C.I.O. Political Action Committee, and union finances.

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United States. National Labor Relations Board

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After the first National Labor Relations Board was functionally abolished by the Supreme Court decision invalidating the National Industrial Recovery Act, May 27, 1935, a new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was established as an independent agency by the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act (NLRA) (49 Stat. 195), dated July 5, 1935. The Supreme Court in 1937 declared the Board constitutional and sustained Congress’s power to regulate employers whose operations affected interstate commerce...

Smith, William James

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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...

Barkin, Solomon, 1907-....

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Economist. From the description of Reminiscences of Solomon Barkin : oral history, 1960. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309726834 ...

Pollock, William John

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Rieve, Emil, 1892-1975

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Textile Workers Union of America. Mecklenburg County Joint Board.

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Fullerton, James H.

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Conn, Lewis M.

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Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). Political Action Committee

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