United Textile Workers of America records

Collection

Identifier: L1973-54

Staff Only

Scope and Content of the 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.

Dates

1930-1996

Creator

United Textile Workers of America (Organization)

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research use.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Georgia State University is the owner of the physical collection and makes reproductions available for research, subject to the copyright law of the United States and item condition. Georgia State University may or may not own the rights to materials in the collection. It is the researcher's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and obtain permission from the copyright holder before publication, reproduction, or display of the materials beyond what is reasonable under copyright law. Researchers may quote selections from the collection under the fair use provision of copyright law.

Some materials stored off-site. Allow at least 2 working days for retrieval.

History of the United Textile Workers of America

The United Textile Workers of America was chartered in 1901 as an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. It was a charter member of the Committee for Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1935, and in 1937 also was one of the founding unions of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Once in the CIO in 1937, the UTWA was renamed the Textile Workers Organizing Committee and then the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA). In 1939, a small dissident faction of TWUA sought for and was allowed to re-affiliate with the AFL under their old, UTWA, name. In 1996, UTWA merged with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.

Extent

82 Linear Feet (in 150 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract:

Organization of the Collection

Series I-V arrived as accession L1973-54:

I. President's Files
II. Secretary-Treasurer's files
III. Research Department
IV. Local Unions
V. Danville, VA Strike

Series VI-X arrived as accession L2002-02:

VI. Inactive Local Unions
VII. Conventions
VIII. Textile Challenger
IX. Financial
X. Separated Materials

List of material separated from L1973-54 follows Detailed Description of the Collection.

Please note that, because of reorganization of the collection when accession L2002-02 was processed, the box order as listed in Series I-IV in the Detailed Description of the Collection below differs from the boxes' numerical order.

Off-Site Storage

Some materials stored off-site. Allow at least 2 working days for retrieval.

Acquisition Information

Donated by United Textile Workers of America, in 1973 (accession L1973-54) and 2002 (accession L2002-02).

Related Archival Materials

The Southern Labor Archives contains numerous collections created by various unions representing workers in the textile industry. These collections include union records from the International Ladies Garment Workers (ILGWU), Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers (ACTWU), United Textile Workers of America (UTWA), Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA), Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Workers (UNITE), and its successors UNITE HERE and Workers United.

Separated Materials

During processing, printed and oversize material was separated to other Southern Labor Archives collections.

List compiled at time of processing. Material must be requested separately; Oversize materials stored offsite; allow 24 hours for retrieval.

Separated to Southern Labor Archives Oversize Collection

American-Viscose Agreement Drafts, 1947
Badger Worsted Mills, Payroll Records, 1951

A large selection of contracts for a variety of locals were separated to the Textile Workers Union of America Contracts collection (L-contracts_TWUA). Please see the Textile Workers Union of America contracts collection (L-contracts_TWUA) finding aid or consult archivist for access.