Celanese Corporation of America: Legal documents, injunctions, 1948-1949

The papers of C. L. Ross, 1943-1952, labor organizer in Rome, Georgia, of the Textile Workers Union of America within the Celanese (before 1947, the Tubize) Corporation, include correspondence, a radio address, and printed material. The bulk of the papers consist of printed material: 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 religious discrimination on attitudes of organized religion towards unions, the financial report of the TWUA for 1947, and the Marshall Plan, 1946-1948; brochures produced by the Tubize and Celanese Corporations; and miscellaneous printed materials. The papers contain TUWA and Tubize Corporation memoranda pertinent to the organization of the TUWA at Tubize in 1944 as well as court injunctions, a typescript of a radio address by Ross, and news clippings which relate to the local 689 actions in the TWUA strike of Celanese in 1948. Correspondence in the papers bears on the unsuccessful attempt of the TWUA to remove Executive Vice-President George Baldanzi at the 1950 Union Convention and the conflict between the Canadian Section of the TWUA and TWUA President Emil Rieve in 1951. News clippings in the papers include a 1950 Murray Kempton New York Post column on Ross's role in thwarting the Baldanzi "purge"; Rome, Ga., newspaper articles on the 1948 Celanese strike; articles on labor in general and miscellany.