[Scrapbook]. 1934-1935.

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[Scrapbook]. 1934-1935.

Newspaper clippings compiled by Crawford primarily about a strike, 1934-1935, at the Stevens Linen Works in Webster, Mass., by members of the United Textile Workers of America. Also includes some clippings about strikes against the Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, Ludlow, Mass., and the Ohio Carpet Co., West Warren (Warren), Mass., both by members of the UTWA. Accompanied by a poem by an unidentified author alluding to the settlement of the strike at Stevens Linen Works.

1 v. ; 32 cm.

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Crawford, Pearle L.

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Ludlow Manufacturing Associates.

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Stevens Linen Works.

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Ohio Carpet Company.

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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...