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Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Local 1716 (Rome, Ga.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1989-21
Abstract:

The records consist of Local 1716 (Rome, Ga.) of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) of the United States from 1954-1988. The records reflect the union's relationship with the Textile Workers Union of America, (TWUA) Local 689, Local 1942 and other locals. Includes correspondence between the various local unions; minutes, records relating to arbitration and grievances; and union and company contract proposals.

Dates: 1954-1988

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Local 1836 (North Charleston, S.C.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1977-25
Abstract:

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Local 1836 (Charleston, SC) records, 1968-1976, consist of correspondence, minutes, reports and financial files.

Dates: 1968-1976

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Memphis-Jackson Joint Board records

 Collection
Identifier: L1992-11
Abstract:

The Memphis-Jackson Joint Board began as an administrative support unit for the smaller locals within its Southern region. The records contain correspondence, grievances, financial records and audits, organizing materials, periodicals, newsletters, leaflets, photographs, membership lists, convention materials, constitutions, and bylaws.

Dates: 1946-1991; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1987

United Food and Commercial Workers 2598T (Enka, N.C.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L2012-31
Abstract The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 2598T (Enka, N.C.) represents workers who first organized as rayon workers of American Enka Corporation. The mill has chiefly produced Rayon and Nylon, although currently produces only carpeting. Although organized by the United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) for most of its existence, the local is now a textile peripheral of UFCW. At its height, the local had 1500 members which has since dwindled to approximately 200. This collection...
Dates: 1939-2012

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Central North Carolina Joint Board records

 Collection
Identifier: L1980-16
Abstract: Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Central North Carolina Joint Board records, 1939-1979, include correspondence, grievances, and time studies on job productivity in the textile industry; together with correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other items. Material relates to the Textile Workers Union of America; Local 578 and Local 584 and the strike (1958-1960; and abandoned by the union) against Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, Henderson, N.C.; and Local 319 at Highland...
Dates: 1939-1979

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama Joint Board records

 Collection
Identifier: L1996-16
Abstract:

The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama Joint Board collection contains grievance files, arbitration files, newspaper clippings, publications, meeting minutes, training manuals, contracts, negotiations, union-management meeting transcripts, and correspondence from 1963-1993.

Dates: 1963-1993

United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 815T (Morristown, Tenn.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L2007-04
Abstract:

The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 815T represented textile workers employed by the America Enka Company in Morristown, Tennessee. The records include meeting minutes, strike and protest organization materials, union membership and leadership rosters, member resignation records, union election records, business contracts, grievances, arbitration, and negotiations, benefits information, trial records, and records of the union local’s history with both the UFCW and the UTWA.

Dates: 1970s-1990s

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union contracts collection

 Collection
Identifier: L-contracts_ILGWU
Abstract:

The collection consists of 16 agreements, 1955-1969, between various local unions of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and manufacturers.

Dates: 1955-1969

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Southeast Regional Office records

 Collection
Identifier: L1990-18
Abstract:

The Southeast Region office of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union opened in 1937. Its records, circa 1950s-1970s, contain correspondence, collective bargaining contracts, contract and strike negotiations, agreements, National Labor Relations Board materials, and strike materials. The bulk of the material relates to a strike against Marlene Industries in Westmoreland, Tennessee.

Dates: 1950s-1970s

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Southeast Regional Office records

 Collection
Identifier: L1996-14
Abstract:

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Southeast Regional Office records, circa 1950s-1990s, contain correspondence, business contracts, negotiations, agreements, court documents, and strike materials. Also represented are audio tapes, video tapes, photography, and plaques.

Dates: circa 1950s-1990s

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Southeast Regional Office records

 Collection
Identifier: L1980-18
Abstract: The collection consists of the records of the Southeastern Regional Office of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union from 1945-1980. Includes administrative records (1945-1977) containing correspondence to or from Jack Handler, Regional Counsel, Directors E.T. Kehrer, Martin J. Morand and Nick Bonanno; subject files relating to farm workers, the General Electric strike (1960), organizing activities in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and; the 1960 Presidential election; financial...
Dates: 1945-1978

The Uprising of '34 collection interviews

 Collection
Identifier: L1995-13-OH
Abstract

In 1934, Southern textile workers took the lead in a nationwide strike that saw half a million workers walk off their jobs in the largest single-industry strike in the history of the United States. This finding aid describes the digitized oral history-style interviews available in Georiga State University Library's Digital Collections.

Dates: 1987-1995

The Uprising of '34 collection

 Collection
Identifier: L1995-13
Abstract

The collection consists of oral history interviews and transcripts, production footage and publicity materials related to the creation of the "Uprising of '34" documentary. Veterans or their descendants were interviewed about mill life, work conditions, southern culture, as well as the strike itself. These interviews were incorporated into the production itself.

Dates: 1987-1995

United Textile Workers of America (UTWA), 1956-1960

 File — Box 1979: Series V, Folder: 8
Identifier: J
Scope and Content of the Series From the Series:

Series V: AFL-CIO Region 8, 1955-1969 holds materials from Christopher's ultimate position as AFL-CIO regional director for Region 8 (1955-1974).

Dates: 1956-1960

Frank Sgambato scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: L1974-27
Abstract

Frank Sgambato (1900-2002) was an organizer and officer in the United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) and a Rhode Island state senator. His scrapbooks, 1936-1952, document with newspaper clippings his work for the TWUA and American Federation of Labor as well as his early political career.

Dates: 1936 - 1952

Jacobs and Langford law firm records

 Collection
Identifier: L1984-12
Abstract:

Jacobs and Langford, law firm of partners Joseph Jacobs and James T. Langford, in Atlanta, Georgia. The records consist of case files.

Dates: 1945-1984

AFL-CIO Region 8 records

 Collection
Identifier: L1974-15
Abstract: AFL-CIO Region 8 records are organized into five series: (I) United Textile Workers of America, 1934-1937; (II) Textile Workers Organizing Committee (TWOC)/Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA), 1937-1940; (III) Tennessee State Industrial Union Council (TSIUC-CIO), 1940-1953; (IV) Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Region 4 (Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and South Carolina), 1953-1955; and (V) AFL-CIO Region 8, 1955-1969. The periods of Paul R. Christopher's career as a...
Dates: 1933-1969

Charles L. Ross papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1985-09
Abstract: Charles "Lewis" Ross (1914-1984) worked as a textile mechanic and was very active in the organization efforts of the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) at the Celanese (before 1947, the Tubize) Corporation in Rome, Georgia. The papers consist of: 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...
Dates: 1943-1953

Don McKee papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1991-14
Abstract:

Don McKee, born in 1916, was a union organizer for the Textile Workers Union of America and a professor at Upsala College. Don McKee's Textile Workers Union of America Organizing Files consist of organizer reports from 1939 to 1949, organizing campaign publicity materials, union literature and a copy of his manuscript, "Organizing Southern Textile Workers: Early Days with the CIO."

Dates: 1939-1953, 1999

Freddie Elmer Halstead papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1972-41
Abstract:

Fred Halstead worked as an organizer for the Textile Workers Union of America throughout the South during the 1950s and 1960s, and took part in strikes in South Georgia and Alabama. Halstead's papers include Textile Workers Union of America activity reports relating his various organizing campaigns, 1959, 1961-1967. The papers include histories of strikes in South Georgia and Alabama, minutes of the Los Angeles Joint Board, correspondence and printed material.

Dates: 1953-1967

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Textile workers -- Labor unions 40
Textile industry 21
Labor unions -- Organizing 17
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Strikes and lockouts -- Textile industry 9
Textile workers 9
North Carolina 8
Knoxville (Tenn.) 7
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Women labor union members 4
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Collective bargaining -- Textile industry 2
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Columbus (Ga.) 2
Henderson (N.C.) 2
High Point (N.C.) 2
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Phenix City (Ala.) 2
Rossville (Ga.) 2
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Textile Workers' Strike, Southern States, 1934 2
Virginia 2
West Virginia 2
case files 2
correspondence 2
Air Traffic Controllers' Strike, U.S., 1981 1
Air traffic controllers 1
Aragon (Ga.) 1
Asheville (N.C.) 1
Athens (Tenn.) 1
Atlanta (Ga.) 1
Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
Bricklayers -- Labor unions 1
Byssinosis 1
Calhoun (Ga.) 1
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Clothing workers 1
Clothing workers -- Labor unions 1
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Columbia (Tenn.) 1
Covington (Va.) 1
Dalton (Ga.) 1
Erwin (N.C.) 1
Fletcher (N.C.) 1
Greenville (Tenn.) 1
Guntersville (Ala.) 1
Honea Path (S.C.) 1
Inman (S.C.) 1
Jackson (Tenn.) 1
Kannapolis (N.C.) 1
Kentucky 1
Labor disputes 1
Labor unions -- Recognition 1
Labor unions--Mergers 1
Lawyers 1
Lindale (Ga.) 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
Maryville (Tenn.) 1
Memphis (Tenn.) 1
Mobile (Ala.) 1
Morristown (Tenn.) 1
New York (N.Y.) 1
Newberry (S.C.) 1
Painters, Industrial -- Labor unions 1
Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
Prairie du Chien (Wis.) 1
Race relations 1
Rhode Island 1
Roanoke (Va.) 1
Roanoke Rapids (N.C.) 1
Rock Hill (S.C.) 1
Saint Louis (Mo.) 1
Scotttsboro (Ala.) 1
Spartanburg (S.C.) 1
Spruce Pine (N.C.) 1
Talladega (Ala.) 1
Textile factories 1
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Westmoreland (Tenn.) 1
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United Textile Workers of America 11
Textile Workers Union of America 10
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union 9
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union 4
Jacobs, Joseph, 1908- 4
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United States. National Labor Relations Board 4
Whitmire, Roy 4
AFL-CIO. Region 8 (Knoxville, Tenn.) 3
Baldanzi, George 3
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Southeast Region 3
Textile Workers Union of America. Local 689 (Rome, Ga.) 3
American Enka Company 2
Bonanno, Nicholas S. 2
Celanese Fibers Company (Rome, Ga.) 2
General Electric Company 2
Helfand, Judith 2
J.P. Stevens & Co. 2
McGill, Eula, 1911-2003 2
Stoney, George C. 2
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union 2
United Textile Workers of America. Local 2598 (Enka, N.C.) 2
United Textile Workers of America. Southern Region. Area B 2
Workers United. Southern Region 2
Aberle Hosiery Company (Columbia, Tenn.) 1
Alton Box Board Company 1
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America 1
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Southern Region 1
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Central North Carolina Joint Board 1
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama Joint Board 1
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Local 1716 (Rome, Ga.) 1
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Local 1836 (North Charleston, S.C.) 1
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Memphis-Jackson Joint Board 1
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Tennessee Joint Board (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1
American Federation of Hosiery Workers 1
American Viscose Corporation 1
Barkin, Solomon, 1907-2000 1
Bemis Company 1
Brewton Fashions 1
Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of America. Local 8 (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees 1
Cannon Mills Company 1
Christopher, Paul R. 1
Columbian Rope Company 1
Crown Cotton Mills Co. (Dalton, Whitfield County, Ga.) 1
Curlee Clothing Company 1
Dean, Everett 1
Dixie Manufacturing Company 1
Farah Manufacturing Company 1
Foote and Davies Company (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Groenert, Roy 1
Haberthear, Harry 1
Haigler, Carey 1
Halstead, Freddie Elmer 1
Handler, Jack G. 1
Hard Times Productions, Inc. 1
Harriet Cotton Mills (Henderson, N.C.) 1
Henderson Cotton Mills (Henderson, N.C.) 1
Highland Cotton Mills (High Point, N.C.) 1
Hollander Home Fashions 1
Holston Manufacturing Company (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1
Industrial Rayon Corporation 1
Inman Mills (Inman, S.C.) 1
International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades. Local 1946 (Augusta, Ga.) 1
International Union, Allied Industrial Workers of America 1
Jacobs and Langford (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Jervis, John E. (John Elwood), 1909-1984 1
Kehrer, E. T. 1
Kenyon Southern (Rossville, Ga.) 1
Kirkland, Lane 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 1
Langford, James T. 1
Lawson United Feldspar and Mineral Company (Spruce Pine, N.C.) 1
Loray Corporation 1
Marlene Industries Corporation 1
McKee, Don, 1916- 1
Meany, George, 1894-1980 1
Morand, Martin J. 1
Munsingwear, Inc. (U.S.) 1
Newberry Mills (Newberry, S.C.) 1
Oneita Knitting Mills (Andrews, S.C.) 1
P. Garvin (Firm : Spartanburg, S.C.) 1
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (Washington, D.C.) 1
Rainbow Processing Company (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1
Research Consortium for the Southwide Textile Strike of 1934 1
Ridge Textile Company (Athens, Tenn.) 1
Rieve, Emil, 1892-1975 1
Ross, Charles L. (Charles Lewis), 1914-1984 1
Roxbury Southern Mills (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1
Schaufenbil, Frances 1
Schnitzler, F. William (Frank William), 1904- 1
Sgambato, Frank J., 1900-2002 1
Southern Railway (U.S.) 1
T.I.L. Sportsware Company (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1
Tennessee State Industrial Union Council 1
Textile Workers Union of America. Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama Area Joint Board 1
Textile Workers Union of America. Local 1592 (Calhoun, Ga.) 1
Textile Workers Union of America. Local 1672 (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1
Textile Workers Union of America. Local 1829 (Columbia, Tenn.) 1
Textile Workers Union of America. Local 185 (Dalton, Ga.) 1
Textile Workers Union of America. Local 202 (Covington, Va.) 1
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