Berkshire Knitting Mills records, 1906-1970.

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Berkshire Knitting Mills records, 1906-1970.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/759838169

This collection documents Berkshire Knitting Mills, its operations and labor relations with the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers. The collection includes technical and piece rate notebooks, the mill diaries of Hellmuth Wink, correspondence, publications, news clippings, minute books, and court briefs. In addition to the microfilm, the collection includes stereographs, a viewer, and associated negatives and prints.

15 microfilm reels.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8147913

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Wink, Hellmuth

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American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers

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Berkshire Knitting Mills

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Berkshire Knitting Mills began as early as 1896, and built the world's largest hosiery mill in Reading, Pennsylvania, in the early 1930s. The American Federation of Hosiery Workers held an unsuccessful 13-month strike at the plant in 1936-1937. From the description of Berkshire Knitting Mills records, 1906-1970. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 759838169 ...