Freddie Elmer Halstead papers, 1953-1967.

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Freddie Elmer Halstead papers, 1953-1967.

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The papers trace the career of Fred Halstead as an organizer for the Textile Workers Union of America in the southern states and as business manager of the Los Angeles Joint Board. TWUA activity reports, 1959, 1961-1967, constitute the bulk of the papers, relating Halstead's various organizing campaigns in the Fifties and Sixties in a day-to-day account. Included are histories of strikes in South Georgia and Alabama, many of which Halstead took part in, and minutes, 1957-1958, of meetings of the Los Angeles Joint Board. Letters, 1957-1964, clippings, and a news release complete the papers.

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Textile Workers Union of America. Los Angeles Joint Board

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Halstead, Freddy Elmer.

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Fred Halstead worked as an organizer for the Textile Workers Union of America throughout the South during the 1950s and 1960s. He took part in strikes in South Georgia and Alabama. Halstead also served as business manager of the Los Angeles Joint Board. From the description of Freddie Elmer Halstead papers, 1953-1967. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 51003760 ...

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...