Records, 1942-1952.

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Records, 1942-1952.

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Collection contains the papers of Charles Edward Auslander, state director in South Carolina of the Textile Workers Union of America (T.W.U.A.), including correspondence with union leaders Emil Rieve, William Pollock, Solomon Barkin, Franz E. Daniel, and Lloyd P. Vaughan. Papers also contain letters, telegrams, financial information, records of cases before the National Labor Relations Board, grievances, reports, mimeographed fliers, lists of employees, contracts, and wage statistics relating to a number of South Carolina textile manufacturers, including Clifton Manufacturing Company, Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Company, and Woodside Mills. Other subjects covered in the papers include the cotton screen print industry, the Wage Stabilization Board, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and a strike, 1950, at Woodside Mills and subsequent relief efforts.

2,428 items.

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6998545

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America

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English. From the description of ACWA's Sidney Hillman Foundation Records. 1955-1974. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 520925303 From the description of ACTWU's National Textile Recruitment and Training Program Records. 1975-1981. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 520924922 Sidney Hillman, labor organizer, leader, and president, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Sidney Hillman was born in Russian-contr...

Rock Hill Printing & Finishing Company (Rock Hill, S.C.)

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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...

United States. Wage Stabilization Board

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When the United Steelworkers of America struck the Garfield, Utah plant of the American Smelting and Refining Co., the U.S. Wage Stabilization Board became involved, as copper and sulphuric acid production was considered essential to national defense. From the description of United States. Wage Stabilization Board. American Smelting and Refining Company vs. United Steelworkers of America. Documents, 1951. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63890962 The Wage Ad...

Vaughn, Lloyd F.

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Rieve, Emil, 1892-1975

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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 ...

Woodside Mills.

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Auslander, Charles Edward.

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Textile Workers Union of America. South Carolina State Director.

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Clifton Manufacturing Company.

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Daniel, Franz E., 1904-1976

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Organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Organized workers in the steel, auto, and rubber industries. Served as assistant director of the Textile Workers Organizing Committee in the South from 1936 to 1943. From June 1943 to 1945, Mr. Daniel served as a representative on the United Labor Committee, and was active in a number of political campaigns on behalf of the Political Action Committee of the CIO. In 1945, he acted as Washington representative of the Industri...

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...

Pollock, William John

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