Records, 1939-1951.

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Records, 1939-1951.

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Papers of the Greensboro-Burlington Joint Board of the Textile Workers Union of America (C.I.O.) contain correspondence, 1931-1945, of T.W.U.A. field representatives E.W. Witt, Haywood D. "Red" Lisk, L.L. Shepherd, and Bruno Rantane concerning grievances, contracts, wages, and a union election in the Piedmont Heights Division of Burlington Mills Corporation; and the correspondence, 1945-1951, of the business managers of the Board, Bruno Rantane and William F. Billingsley, with T.W.U.A. officials George Baldanzi, Solomon Harkins, Lewis M. Conn, William Pollock, and Emil Rieve. The main files of the Greensboro-Burlington Joint Board contain material from the national office of the T.W.U.A., including correspondence and items concerning education and research, and an incomplete set, 1946-1950, of Memorandum from Washington; letters from Lewis M. Conn, North Carolina director of the T.W.U.A.; minutes, correspondence and treasurer's reports of the Board; papers, 1948-1951, of locals, concerning work loads, seniority, rates, working conditions, and grivances; and material on various Cone Mills Corporation plants.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Lisk, Haywood D.

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Billingsley, William J., 1953-

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Textile Workers Union of America. Greensboro-Burlington Joint Board.

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Baldanzi, George, 1907-1972

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Shepherd, L. L.

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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...

Conn, Lewis M.

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Burlington Mills Corporation

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Rantane, Bruno.

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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 ...

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 ...

Rieve, Emil, 1892-1975

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Pollock, William John

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Witt, E. W.

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