[Records]. 1896-1970.

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[Records]. 1896-1970.

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Includes annual files, 1918-1970, of N.T.A. proceedings with subject categories including: freight (Interstate Commerce Commission rate cases, data about northern vs. southern costs and subsidies); imports (raw materials, textiles, statistics, reports on foreign competition, labor union reports); labor (strikes, wages, cost of living, arbitration and contract negotiations with mills and the TWUA); legislation (letters, wages and hours, price controls, New Deal legislation, etc.); tariff (conventions and commissions, quotas, etc.); and trade agreements (bilateral agreements). Includes photographs of growing and processing cotton and portraits of association officers, federal specifications, 1927-1957, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1926-1927. Files of the Arkwright Club have records of cotton shipments, 1896-1901; annual files, 1902-1931, of R.T. Fisher, W.F. Garcelon, and Ward Thoron; and subject files on the Cotton Standards Act, tariffs, supply of long staple cotton and the merger of the Club with N.A.C.M. Records of the New England Cotton Buyers Assoc. include annual files, 1911-1958; Executive Committee minutes, 1911-1916; Appeal Board decisions, 1917-1958; and correspondence. Felt Assoc. records include annual files, 1942-1967, minutes of meetings, financial records, bulletins, reports, statistics, correspondence on tariffs, trade agreements and regulatory legislation, press files, and photographs of officers and uses of felt.

99 ft.

American Textile History Museum Library

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American Textile History Museum Library

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National Association of Cotton Manufacturers (U.S.)

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Felt Association.

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Fisher, R.T.

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Thoron, Ward, 1867-....

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Garcelon, W. F.

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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...

New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association

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New England Cotton Buyers Association.

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Arkwright Club.

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Northern Textile Association.

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The New England Cotton Manufacturers' Assoc., organized in Boston in 1865 by mill agents, overseers and superintendents, disseminated information about technical advances in the cotton textile industry. In 1906 its name changed to the National Assoc. of Cotton Manufacturers to expand its influence in export markets and textile education. It now included mill presidents and treasurers. In 1953 the Northern Textile Assoc., Boston, succeeded the N.A.C.M. Consisting of northern mills pr...

Felt Manufacturers Council.

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