President's correspondence, 1937-1957.

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President's correspondence, 1937-1957.

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The collection consists of the correspondence of United Textile Workers of America Presidents Francis Gorman (1937-1939, 1941-1944); C.M. Fox (1939-1941); and Anthony Valente (1944-1957). Contains only a small amount of correspondence from 1937-1941 and none for 1947-1949. The correspondence documents organizing efforts in New England particularly New Bedford, Massachusetts and Lawrence, Massachusetts first as the TWOC (1937-1938) then as the UTWA (1945-1947). Includes information on the post World War II southern drive organizing campaigns in Asheville, North Carolina; Danville, Virginia; and Elizabethton, Tennessee. Materials document the 1946 attempt by the Dept. of Woolen and Worsted Workers to secede from the UTWA, TWUA Vice-President George Baldanzi's move to the UTWA, the 1950 purge of alleged communists from UTWA's Canadian office, and the competition between TWUA and UTWA to organize textile workers. Major correspondents include Frank Fenton, William Green, Roy Groenert, Joseph Jacobs, George Meany, Roy Whitmire, the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, the U.S. Dept. of Labor, and the AFL.

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Fenton, Frank, 1953-

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Textile Workers' Union of America

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Textile Workers Organizing Committee

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Groenert, Roy, 1913-

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United Textile Workers of America

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Baldanzi, George, 1907-1972

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Gorman, Francis J.

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Whitmire, Roy.

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Fox, C. M.

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