[Records] 1935-1955.

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[Records] 1935-1955.

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Records date from 1935-1955 and present a picture of labor relations and negotiations in New Bedford and Fall River from the mill management point of view. Topics covered include labor negotiations and agreements, grievances and arbitration, general labor matters and labor legislation. Records of NBC make up the largest part of the collection and include correspondence, memoranda and bulletins to member mills, news clippings, press releases, pamphlets and booklets, legal briefs and copies of union agreements. Much of the correspondence is from members of the Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge & Rugg, including Charles B. Rugg, William F. Sullivan and Francis J. Vaas. Correspondence from Fred W. Steele, Executive Secretary of both associations, and Seabury Stanton of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., is also included. Records for FRNA center around the 1953 and 1954 wage re-opening negotiations and the 1955 contract negotiations. They contain agreements of the association, correspondence, memoranda, superseded contracts, and statements of workers and management.

17 boxes (15.5 ft.)

American Textile History Museum Library

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American Textile History Museum Library

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New Bedford Cotton Manufacturers' Association.

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Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge, and Rugg (Boston, Mass.)

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Fall River-New Bedford Textile Manufacturers Negotiating Group.

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Vaas, Francis J.

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Fall River Textile Manufacturers Association.

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Rugg, Charles B.

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New Bedford Loomfixers' Union.

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Sullivan, William F., 1909-

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Steele, Fred W.

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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...

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...

Northern Textile Association.

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Two associations, the New Bedford Cotton Manufacturers' Association (NBC) and the Fall River Textile Manufacturers Association, were formed in New Bedford, Mass. in the early 20th century by textile manufacturers in the two cities to act in unison in labor matters. In 1945 the member mills of the two associations began to negotiate as a consolidated group with representatives of production employees at the various mills. Unions involved in negotiations included the Textile Workers Union of Ameri...

Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

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Stanton, Seabury.

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