Maine State Federated Labor Council interviews, 1972 Sept.

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Maine State Federated Labor Council interviews, 1972 Sept.

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Interviews, with transcript, from Biddeford, Bangor, and Sanford, Me., area, with Arthur Lebell of the Maine State Federated Labor Council; with Herman Ackroyd of the United Textile Workers at Sanford; and with Alexander Anastosoff of the TWUA (Textile Workers Union of America) at Biddeford.

4 audiotapes (3 hr.)

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History, Maine Folklife Center

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Maine State Federated Labor Council

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The Maine State Federated Labor Council was founded in 1904 as the Maine State Federation of Labor, a branch of the American Federation of Labor. Its purpose was to better the conditions of the labor force and to fight such problems as child labor, poor working conditions and exploitation of women in the work force. In 1938 the AFL and the Maine State Federation saw the rise of a new rival, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). In 1956 the Maine state chapters of both the AFL and the C...

Ackroyd, Herman

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McCloskey, Jay

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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...

Anastosoff, Alexander

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Textile worker; member of Textile Workers Union of America; of Biddeford, Me. From the description of Oral history interview, 1972 Aug. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70975878 ...

Lebell, Arthur

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Morgan, Ken M.

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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...

Jacobs, Mark M., 1947-

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