Papers [microform], 1944-1950.

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Papers [microform], 1944-1950.

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Papers collected by Ross, of Chapel Hill, N.C., a leader in the United Mine Workers, relating to two predominantly black labor unions in Winston-Salem, N.C.: Local 22 of the Tobacco Workers Union, an affiliate of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union of America; and Local 420 of the International Fur and Leather Workers Union, which also included laundry workers. The papers consist principally of mimeographed letters, reports, broadsides, and clippings, and relate to the Tobacco Workers Union campaign to organize workers in Winston-Salem; relations with the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; and strikes in 1946 against local laundries, the Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Company, and the Winston Leaf Tobacco Company.

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Georgia State University

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Tobacco Workers International Union. Local 22.

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United mine workers of America

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Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Company.

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Ross, Myron Howard, 1918-1987,

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Myron Howard Ross of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a United Mine Workers leader. From the description of Myron Howard Ross papers, 1944-1950. WorldCat record id: 25533873 From the guide to the Myron Howard Ross Papers, 1944-1950, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company

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Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America

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Winston Leaf Tobacco Company.

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