Textile Workers Union of America. South Region records, 1947-1991 [manuscript].

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Textile Workers Union of America. South Region records, 1947-1991 [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52857039

The collection includes correspondence, reports, minutes, agendas, pro-union and anti-union handouts and flyers, clippings, pictures, and other materials related to Scott Hoyman's activities with the TWUA. Materials document the internal functions of the TWUA, such as meetings, conferences, elections, and funding; the union's work with various organizations, including the Federation of Textile Representatives (FTR), and the AFL-CIO; TWUA's merger with Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to become the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU); organizing campaigns in North Carolina and South Carolina, most notably the J. P. Stevens Campaign; staff training and education; organizing tactics; membership drives and figures; the union's policies on political and industrial issues; and trends and events in the textile industry. Notable subjects include biennial conventions, Chatham Manufacturing Company, Collins & Aikman Corporation, Erwin Cotton Mills, executive council meetings, the Federation of Textile Representatives, GARCO (General Asbestos and Rubber Division, Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.), handouts and flyers, Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, J. P. Stevens & Co., Lone Star Textiles, outgoing mail, and southern staff conferences.

About 4700 items (7.0 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7660276

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Hoyman, Scott

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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...

Harriet & Henderson Cotton Mills

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Erwin Cotton Mills

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Lone Star Textiles, Inc.

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Textile Workers Union of America. South Region.

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Scott Hoyman was an organizer and a bargainer with the Textile Worker's Union of America (TWUA), serving as the Southern Regional Director in the 1960s and 1970s. The TWUA actively sought to organize southern textile plants to help workers achieve higher wages, health insurance, and other benefits, and to insure fair labor practices. From the description of Textile Workers Union of America. South Region records, 1947-1991 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 52857039 ...

Federation of Textile Representatives.

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