Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 118 (Curwensville and Clearfield, Pa.) records, 1935-1962.

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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 118 (Curwensville and Clearfield, Pa.) records, 1935-1962.

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The collection mainly consists of meeting minutes from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America local union (designated Local 153 until 1935 and Local 118, 1935-1946) in Curwensville, Pennsylvania. There is a folder of correspondence and documents belonging to union national representative Julia Maietta (1956-1962), who had chaired Local 153 and Local 118. Press releases, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets relate to the union at a national level, as does a published union history, "The Amalgamated: Today and Tomorrow," edited by J. B. S. Hardman (1939). Undated and unidentified photographs show a Curwensville union parade and a Curwensville union picnic (circa 1940-1945).

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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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...

Maietta, Julia L. (Julia Luigia), 1909-1994

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Julia Luigia Maietta (1909-1994), of Curwensville, Pa., worked in a shirt factory in her hometown, and became active in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America union. She served as a National Representative for the ACWA and as Field Service Coordinator for the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE). Maietta ran in and won the Democratic primary for the 22nd Congressional District but lost the election in 1948 and 1958. Maietta remained active in electoral politics and government at ...

Hardman, J. B. S. (Jacob Benjamin Salutsky), 1882-1968

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Labor leader, editor. From the description of Reminiscences of J.B.S. Hardman : oral history, 1962. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309737062 J. B. S. Hardman, social philosopher, author, editor and leader in the development of American unionism for over sixty years, was born in Vilna, Russia, in 1882. Because of his revolutionary and trade union activities, he was exiled in 1908. He came to the United States where he became active in the S...

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Local 118 (Curwensville and Clearfield, Pa.)

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The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) formed in 1914. Julia Maietta chaired Local 153 (Curwensville, Pa.) which became Local 118 (Curwensville and Clearfield, Pa.) in 1935 when the ACWA played a major role in the emergence of the Congress of Industrial Workers (CIO). From the description of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Local 118 (Curwensville and Clearfield, Pa.) records, 1935-1962. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 454140514 ...