United Textile Workers of America
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
AFL-CIO Region 8 records
D. Bruce Shine collection
D. Bruce Shine worked as an attorney in Kingsport, Tennessee. He specialized in labor law and served as the General Council for the United Textile Workers of America. The D. Bruce Shine collection, 1928-1982, consists of legal case files and personal files.
The Uprising of '34 collection interviews
In 1934, Southern textile workers took the lead in a nationwide strike that saw half a million workers walk off their jobs in the largest single-industry strike in the history of the United States. This finding aid describes the digitized oral history-style interviews available in Georiga State University Library's Digital Collections.
United Textile Workers of America records
The collection consists of the records of the United Textile Workers of America from 1936-1995. This collection contains documentation about the local unions in the UTWA, both in the United States and Canada. Information on mergers, strikes, finances and conventions is included in these papers. These records were from the UTWA, Southern Region.
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- Southern States 3
- Textile workers -- Labor unions 3
- Industrial relations 2
- Labor unions -- Organizing 2
- Arbitration, Industrial 1
- Kingsport (Tenn.) 1
- Knoxville (Tenn.) 1
- Labor leaders 1
- Labor union locals 1
- Labor unions -- Law and legislation 1
- Labor unions -- Political activity 1
- Labor unions -- Recognition 1
- Lawyers 1
- Political campaigns 1
- Race relations 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- Textile industry 1
- Tennessee 1
- Textile Workers' Strike, Southern States, 1934 1
- Textile industry 1
- Women textile workers 1
- Working class -- Songs and music 1 + ∧ less