[Papers]. 1919-1940.

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[Papers]. 1919-1940.

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Contains forms, flyers, blank pledge cards, and guidelines for union organizers from various labor unions for hosiery workers, including the American Federation of Hosiery Workers, New England Hosiery Workers, the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, and the Federation of Woolen and Worsted Workers of America. Also contains incoming correspondence, 1926-1929, 1934-1940, concerning union activities, most from various hosiery workers' unions and from the United Textile Workers of America; Bush's monthly dues book, 1919-1927, in the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers; and resolutions concerning the 30-hour week and other items of interest to labor. Includes pamphlets, proceedings, constitutions, bylaws, etc., of various hosiery unions, and copies of Textile Notes, 1937-1938, published by the Labor Research Association.

1 box ; 27 x 6 x 32 cm.

American Textile History Museum Library

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American Textile History Museum Library

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Federation of Woolen and Worsted Workers of America.

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American Federation of Hosiery Workers

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The American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers organized in 1915, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor in 1923, and took the name American Federation of Hosiery Workers in 1933. It later merged with the Textile Workers Union of America in 1965. From the description of American Federation of Hosiery Workers records, 1930-1945. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 455340555 ...

American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers

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New England Hosiery Workers.

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United Textile Workers of America

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The United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) was chartered in 1901 and became a founding union of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1937. As part of the CIO, the UTWA was renamed the Textile Workers Organizing Committee (TWOC) then the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA). In 1939, a dissident faction of the TWUA sought for and was allowed to re-affiliate with the American Federation of Labor (AFL) under its original name the United Textile Workers of America. From...

Labor Research Association (U.S.)

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Son of an attorney, Robert Dunn (1895-1977) was born in Pennsylvania. After graduation from Yale in 1918, he worked in New England for the Amalgamated Textile Workers Unions as an organizer and economic researcher. In 1920 Dunn helped established the New England Civil Liberties Union. A close friend of Roger Baldwin’s he also served on the national American Civil Liberties Union’s Executive Committee from 1923-1941. In the 1920s Dunn focussed his attention on events in the Soviet Union, travelin...

Bush, Carroll D.

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Bush was a union organizer for workers in the hosiery industry. His activities took place mostly in Massachusetts in the 1920's and 1930's. Among other things, he served as secretary of the New England Hosiery Workers Organization Committee. From the description of [Papers]. 1919-1940. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 50774728 ...