Surgical dressing industry, wage scales, 1935

The general file of the Research Department is an extensive body of correspondence, speeches, reports, press releases, newsclippings, minutes, notes, and technical data. It comprises three subseries: (1) Subjects; (2) case documentation from arbitration and labor relations boards; and (3) organizations. These sub-series are not formally separated. Each sub-series contains most, if not all of the types of material listed above.

The subject headings are: Taft-Hartley Act; Workers Education; the Wool Tariff; Migratory Industries/Distressed Areas; National Textile Bill; the Fair Labor Standards Act; Time-Motion studies; the Guaranteed Annual Wage; industrial Safety; Textile Statistics; and organizing campaigns in Fall River and New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Elizabethton, Tennessee.

The second sub-series consists of case material and related correspondence of the American Arbitration Association, the National Labor Relations Board, the National War Labor Board (1942-1945), and the Wage Stabilization Board (1951-1953). This material is arranged by employer name.

The third sub-series consists of labor, government, and private organizations which corresponded with the United Textile Workers. These correspondents include: The American Standards Association; the American Federation of the Physically Handicapped; the U.S. Labor Department; the Labor Department of Canada; the War Manpower Commission; the Office of Defense Mobilization; the Office of War Information; the War Production Board; the Federal Trade Commission; the American Federation of Labor; Labor's League for Political Education; the Labor Research Association; the Federation of Woolen and Worsted Workers of America; and the Synthetic Yarn Workers Federation. Material in this subseries arrived as part of accession L1973-54.