Edna Mill records, 1891-1959 [manuscript].

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Edna Mill records, 1891-1959 [manuscript].

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Records of the Edna Mill include documents reporting finances and wages, financial history, and audits. There is also a 1942 report by owner Willis Benton Pipkin discussing a possible 10-cent-per-hour increase in wages for workers; correspondence between representatives of the Edna Mill and the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA); agreements made between the union and Edna Mill; minutes of TWUA-Edna Mill meetings and the Edna Mill Grievance Committee meetings; lists of Edna Mill union members; flyers promoting the union; and booklets outlining TWUA policies and methods of collective bargaining. Also included are news clippings about union activities at Edna Mill, an anti-union speech delivered by Pipkin, and an anti-union flyer distributed by Edna Mill. There are also corporate minutes, 1931-1944; a 1937 scrapbook with clippings about labor relations; and a short history of Edna Mills that was written by Pipkin in 1959.

500 items (1.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Edna Mill (Reidsville, N.C.)

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The Edna Mill was a textile mill incorporated in 1889 in Reidsville, N.C. The mill was owned by Willis Benton Pipkin. It became part of the Cone Mills organization in 1946. From the description of Edna Mill records, 1891-1959 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 39463399 From the guide to the Edna Mill Records (#4906), 1891-1959, (Southern Historical Collection) ...

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...

Pipkin, Willis Benton, b. 1906.

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