Sonia Baltrun Kaross oral history and papers, 1977.

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Sonia Baltrun Kaross oral history and papers, 1977.

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Transcript and sound recording of Lucille Kendall's 1977 interviews with Sonia Baltrun Kaross and personal papers documenting Kaross' activities as a Communist activist and United Textile Workers (UTW) organizer and representative in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and California, from the 1910s to the 1970s.

Transcript and papers: 3 folders (0.5 linear feet)Tapes: 15 sound cassettes.

California historical society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7804842

California historical society

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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...

Kaross, Sonia Baltrun,

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Communist activist Sonia Baltrun Kaross worked as an organizer for the United Textile Workers (UTW) in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and California in the 1920s and 1930s. She led a sucessful textile workers' strike at the California Cotton Mill in Oakland, Calif., in the early 1930s, later representing the United Textile Workers on various central labor councils in San Francisco. From the description of Sonia Baltrun Kaross oral history and papers, 1977. (California Historical Societ...

Kendall, Lucille,

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