President's general files, 1936-1956.

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President's general files, 1936-1956.

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The collection consists of the President's general files of the United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) from 1936-1956. Includes correspondence (1937-1953) concerning organizational situations in New England and the South, problems with the Dept. of Woolen and Worsted Workers, establishment of the UTWA Defense Fund, investigation of communism in UTWA Canadian leadership, George Baldanzi's return to the UTWA from the TWUA (1953), and the rebuilding of the UTWA after its re-chartering with the AFL. Additional materials in the collection include minutes of various labor organizations and conferences; membership rosters; radio broadcast scripts; and reports, speeches, and newspaper articles by Francis Gorman, Anthony Valente, and Lloyd Klenert.

4 linear ft.

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American Federation of Labor

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Klenert, Lloyd.

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Gorman, Francis J.

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United Textile Workers of America. Dept. of Woolen and Worsted Workers.

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Baldanzi, George, 1907-1972

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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...

Valente, Anthony.

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United Textile Workers of America

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The United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) was chartered in 1901 and became a founding union of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1937. As part of the CIO, the UTWA was renamed the Textile Workers Organizing Committee (TWOC) then the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA). In 1939, a dissident faction of the TWUA sought for and was allowed to re-affiliate with the American Federation of Labor (AFL) under its original name the United Textile Workers of America. From...