[Records]. 1920-1923.

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[Records]. 1920-1923.

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Includes correspondence, memos and records of investigations of labor activity by the Federated Textile Unions of America, the Textile Workers' Union and the United Textile Workers in textile mills in Mass. Included are reports about the Arlington Mill, Duck Mill, Everett Mill, Pemberton Mill and Upper Pacific Mill in Lawrence; the Methuen Mill, in Methuen; the Hamilton Mill and the Bay State Cotton Mill in Lowell; the Ludlow Manufacturing Co. in Ludlow; the Crown Mill in Pawtucket, R.I. and South Attleboro, Mass.; Union Wadding Co. in Pawtucket and South Attleboro; the Otis Co. in Ware, etc. Information on the ethnicity, languages and political organizations of the workers is included. Also contains general reports on the cotton industry and labor activity in New Bedford, Fall River and Taunton, Mass., as well as records about the Rockport Granite Co., Rockport and Gloucester, Mass., and a strike at the J.H. Winchell Shoe Factory, Haverhill, Mass. Contains a letter, 1922, to the Commissioner of Public Safety from D. Chauncey Brewer, president of the North American Civic League for Immigrants in Boston about activity in the mills in Nashua, N.H. and a meeting about the Sacco-Vanzetti case attended by a League special agent. Includes pamphlets and newspaper clippings from local and ethnic newspapers, the Industrial Workers of the World, the Communist Party (including the General Council of the United Labor Bodies), anarchist organizations, etc. Contains a list of "Communist and anarchist newspapers" and the following left-wing publications, 1921-1923, collected by the department: The Metropolis: A Magazine of the City of New York, New York; Soviet Russia: Official Organ of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau, New York; The Federated Press Bulletin: Official Organ of the Federated Press League, Chicago; The Leader, Lawrence, Mass.; Reconstruction: An Organ to Promote Political and Economic Reconstruction in Central and Eastern Europe [in English], Vienna; Anzeiger und Post, Lawrence, Mass.; The Worker, New York; Americanskye Izvestia, New York; The Workers' Challenge, New York; L'Agitazione: Organo del Comitato de Difesa pro Sacco e Vanzetti, Boston.

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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Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union

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The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the most significant union representing workers in the men's clothing industry, was founded in New York City in 1914 as a breakaway movement from the United Garment Workers. Radical and immigrant workers in the tailors’ and cutters’ locals were the core of the seceding group, which advocated industrial unionism and economic strikes in opposition to the UGW’s craft organization, which they saw as conservative and timid. Their diverging vie...

Massachusetts. Division of State Police. Criminal Information Section.

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The Mass. Division of State Police, Criminal Information Section, reported to the Mass. Commissioner of Public Safety about labor activity, especially strikes and labor unrest. From the description of [Records]. 1920-1923. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 50863453 ...

Massachusetts. Dept. of Public Safety.

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Brewer, Daniel Chauncey

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J.H. Winchell Shoe Factory.

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Ludlow Manufacturing Associates.

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Hamilton Manufacturing Co. (Two Rivers, Wis.)

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Lawrence Duck Company.

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Pacific Mills

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The company was a cotton and worsted manufacturer located in Lawrence, Mass. From the description of [Payroll record]. 1897. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 50083831 Pacific Mills incorporated in 1853; textile mills built by the Essex Company, Lawrence, Mass.; in 1923 had 27 brick buildings and a floor space of 135 acres; at that time the largest manufacturer in the world of percales; also produced a variety of other fabrics. From t...

Communist party of America

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Crown Mill.

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North American Civic League for Immigrants

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Industrial Workers of the World

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The IWW is a labor organization dedicated to uniting laborers around the world into a single large union. From the description of Collection 1916-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778701431 Established in Chicago in 1905 by sponsors of socialism and the remnants of previous labor unions, including the Knights of Labor, Western Federation of Miners and the American Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or "Wobblies", evolved into a radical industrial unio...

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...

Federated Textile Unions of America.

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Everett Mills

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Rockport Granite Company.

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Arlington Mills

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Union Wadding Company.

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Methuen Company.

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Pemberton Manufacturing Company

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Otis Company.

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