Textile Workers Union of America, Northwest Georgia Joint Board records
Scope and Content of the Records
The Records, 1949-1976, of the Textile Workers Union of America, Northwest Georgia Joint Board, consist of correspondence, financial statements, grievance and arbitration cases, contracts, and photographs. The Records pertain to TWUA Locals 689 and 789 in the Rome, Georgia, area, both of which went defunct in the late 1970's. Officials in both locals corresponded with TWUA presidents Emil Rieve and William Pollock, TWUA Political Action Committee Director Al Barkan, with TWUA Georgia Director H.D. Lisk, and with TWUA Southern Directors Boyd Paton and James Bamford. Primary topics include legislative issues, contract negotiations, wages, work loads, and the 1968 strike. Small series of contracts and photographs complete the collection.
Dates
- 1949-1976
Creator
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.
Extent
5.42 Linear Feet (in 13 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract:
The collection consists of the records of the Northwest Georgia Joint Board of the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) from 1949-1976. The records primarily document the activities of the TWUA Locals 689 and 789 located in Rome, Georgia, and include correspondence, minutes, subject files, financial records, grievances, arbitration cases, photographs, and printed materials. Officials in both locals corresponded with TWUA officers including presidents Emil Rieve and William Pollock, Political Action Committee Director Al Barkan, Georgia Director H.D. Lisk, and Southern Directors Boyd Paton and James Bamford. Primary topics include legislative issues, contract negotiations, wages, work loads, and the 1968 strike at the Celanese Fibers Company.
Arrangement
The records are arranged into two series:
- Series I: Textile Workers Union of America, Local 689, 1947-1976
- Series II: Textile Workers Union of America, Local 789, 1946-1970
Acquisition Information
Donated by Gerald Brown and Shirley Pope, June 1980.
Online Availability
The photographs in this collection may have been digitized and are available online at Georgia State University Library Digital Collections.
Separated Materials
During processing, photographs and printed material were separated to other Southern Labor Archives collections. For photographs, see the Southern Labor Archives Photographs Collection finding aid. For contracts, consult Special Collections for access.
Separated to Southern Labor Archives Photographs Collection
- Thirteen black and white, glossy photographs, 1953, 1955-1957, 1960, 1967, undated
Separated to Southern Labor Archives Contracts Collection
- United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry, Lead Burners' Joint Council -- Rome, Ga. (Celanese Fibers Corp.), 1953
- Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) -- Local 513, Knoxville, Tn., 1950
- Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) -- Local 576, Gadsden, Al., 1953
- Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) -- Local 689, Rome, Ga., 1959, 1962, 1965, 1971(2)
- Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) -- Local 689, Rome, Ga., (Bonnie Davis Chevrolet Co.), 1969
- Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) -- Local 770, Charlotte, N.C., 1954
- Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) -- Local 789, Aragon, Ga. (Contract Stipulations), 1947-1958
- Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) -- Local 789, Aragon, Ga., (Noble Manufacturing Company), 1946
- Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) -- Local 789, Aragon, Ga. (Aragon Mills), 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1955
- Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) -- Local 903, Hazelwood, N.C., 1955
- Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) -- Local 1006, Brookford, N.C., 1955
- Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) -- Local 1093, Rock Hill, S.C., 1965, 1968
Processing Information
Inventoried by Ralph Peters and Robert Dinwiddie at the file level, January 1984.
Creator
- Title
- Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA), Northwest Georgia Joint Board:
- Subtitle
- A Guide to Its Records at Georgia State University Library
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Georgia State University Library
- Date
- January 1984
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
100 Decatur St., S.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
404-413-2880
404-413-2881 (Fax)
archives@gsu.edu