[Business records]. 1914-1954.

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[Business records]. 1914-1954.

Includes a sales ledger, 1927-1930; an insurance ledger, 1914-1932, listing types of insurance coverage, agents, etc.; correspondence, 1917-1951; financial statements and accountants' reports, 1943-1954. Also includes leaflets from the Textile Workers Union of America, 1948; and an agreement dated June 3, 1930, selling controlling interest in company to Ames Worsted Company, Lowell, Mass.

1 box + 2 ledgers.

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Maine Spinning Company.

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Woolen mill located in Skowhegan, Me., with office in Boston, Mass. Letterhead indicates company manufactured worsted yarns. From the description of [Business records]. 1914-1954. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 48450717 ...

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...

Ames Worsted Company.

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