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Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union

 Organization

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama Joint Board records

 Collection
Identifier: L1996-16
Abstract:

The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama Joint Board collection contains grievance files, arbitration files, newspaper clippings, publications, meeting minutes, training manuals, contracts, negotiations, union-management meeting transcripts, and correspondence from 1963-1993.

Dates: 1963-1993

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Local 1716 (Rome, Ga.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1989-21
Abstract:

The records consist of Local 1716 (Rome, Ga.) of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) of the United States from 1954-1988. The records reflect the union's relationship with the Textile Workers Union of America, (TWUA) Local 689, Local 1942 and other locals. Includes correspondence between the various local unions; minutes, records relating to arbitration and grievances; and union and company contract proposals.

Dates: 1954-1988

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union vs. Cannon Mills scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: L1995-09
Abstract:

The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) vs. Cannon Mills Scrapbooks contains three scrapbooks of printed material, 1976-1991, when the union attempted to organize Cannon Mills (Kannapolis, N.C.). The scrapbooks cover textile industry issues such brown lung, the ACTWU's involvement in other mills, and Kannapolis' problems with illiteracy and crumbling infrastructure. The bulk of materials in the ACTWU vs. Cannon Mills Scrapbooks fall between 1976 and 1981.

Dates: 1976-1991; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1981

Charles L. Ross papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1985-09
Abstract: Charles "Lewis" Ross (1914-1984) worked as a textile mechanic and was very active in the organization efforts of the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) at the Celanese (before 1947, the Tubize) Corporation in Rome, Georgia. The papers consist of: union constitutions (CIO, Georgia State Industrial Union Council, TWUA local 689), contracts, grievances and memoranda from TWUA Washington Representative, John W. Edelman, to all Union Members, 1948-1950; pamphlets pertaining to racial and...
Dates: 1943-1953

Curlee Clothing Company collection

 Collection
Identifier: L1981-09
Abstract:

The Curlee Clothing Company collection, 1938, contain materials on the treatment of organized labor by the company.

Dates: 1938

Marc R. Levinson papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1983-01
Abstract: Marc R. Levinson was a journalist and news editor of Creative Loafing, an Atlanta weekly. His papers, 1975-1979, contain three series. The AFSCME Local 1644/City of Atlanta series includes correspondence, news clippings, news releases, and printed materials relating to a strike by Local 1644 (Atlanta, Ga.) of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) against the City of Atlanta in 1977. The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile...
Dates: 1975-1978

National Planning Association collection

 Collection
Identifier: L1988-05
Abstract:

The National Planning Association (NPA) was established in 1934 to engage in research in policy formation for the United States private sector. The collection contains a photograph, press release, and correspondence related to the presentation of the NPA's Gold Medal Award to former Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) General President Murray Finley.

Dates: February 1988

Nicholas S. Bonanno papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1999-09
Scope and Contents of the Papers

Consists of benefits information, company files, and merger information.

Dates: 1982-1997

The Uprising of '34 collection interviews

 Collection
Identifier: L1995-13-OH
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1987-1995

Workers United, Southern Region records

 Collection
Identifier: L2019-03
Abstract

The Workers United, Southern Region Records consist of contracts, grievances, negotiation materials, correspondence, constitutions and videotapes, 1980-2013. Workers United grew out of a series of older textile workers unions including ILGWU, UNITE!, UNITE HERE, ACTWU, ACWU, and TWUA.

Dates: 1980-2013

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  • Subject: Textile workers -- Labor unions X

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Textile industry 5
Textile workers 5
Labor unions -- Organizing 3
Southern States 3
Strikes and lockouts -- Textile industry 3