Box 6
Container
Contains 18 Results:
Bold Knob Furniture Company organizing and strike, Rocky Mountain, Virginia, 1947
File — Box: 6, Folder: 1
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1947
Myrtle Desk Company, North Carolina, October 1947
File — Box: 6, Folder: 2
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
October 1947
Myrtle Desk strike and campaign, 1947, undated
File — Box: 6, Folder: 3
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1947, undated
Newsclippings [labor, strikes, United Furniture Workers of America], 1940s, undated
File — Box: 6, Folder: 4
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1940s, undated
"Letters of John Washington Clark", 1952, 1956
File — Box: 6, Folder: 5
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1952, 1956
Pamphlet - Reds and Radicals are promoting John L. Lewis's CIO, undated
File — Box: 6, Folder: 6
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
undated
Southern District 50, United Mine Workers of America 1942 disaffiliation, 1940s
File — Box: 6, Folder: 7
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1940s
Letters to employees from employers, organizing campaigns, 1946-1947
File — Box: 6, Folder: 8
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1946-1947
News articles, 1945-1947
File — Box: 6, Folder: 9
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1945-1947
Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, Southern Conference on Human Welfare), Tennessee and Alabama, 1942-1943
File — Box: 6, Folder: 10
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1942-1943
Southern CIO drive (Operation Dixie), Macon, Georgia - labor, organization, 1946
File — Box: 6, Folder: 11
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1946
United Furniture Workers of America, organizing, 1946-1947, undated
File — Box: 6, Folder: 12
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1946-1947, undated
The Beacon, North Carolina, 1946-1950
File — Box: 6, Folder: 13
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1946-1950
United Furniture Workers, (High Point, Thomasville, Winston-Salem, Rocky Mount, Virginia), 1946-1948
File — Box: 6, Folder: 14
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1946-1948
United Furniture Workers of America, Thomasville, North Carolina, organizing, strike, and settlement, 1945-1947
File — Box: 6, Folder: 15
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1945-1947
Texas [Ralph Yarborough, news articles], 1954, undated
File — Box: 6, Folder: 16
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1954, undated
Bold Knob Furniture Company, Rocky Mount, Virginia, strike, 1947
File — Box: 6, Folder: 17
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1947
National Labor Relations Act, 1937-1942
File — Box: 6, Folder: 18
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1937-1942