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Knoxville (Tenn.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union contracts collection

 Collection
Identifier: L-contracts_ACTWU
Abstract:

The collection consists of 16 agreements, 1977-1981, between various local unions of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union and manufacturers.

Dates: 1977-1981

Lucille Thornburgh, Roy Wade, Don Rodgers and Connie Leper Interview, 29 December 1991

 Item
Identifier: L1995-13_AV0522
Abstract

Thornburgh, Wade, Rodgers, and Leper discuss how companies use footage of the textile workers' strike of 1934 as a way to convince employees not join the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU), also discussed is the issue of race and union organizing.

Dates: 29 December 1991

Lucille Thornburgh, Roy Wade, Don Rodgers, Bill Winn, and Angie Rodgers Interviews, 29 December 1991

 Item
Identifier: L1995-13_AV0520
Abstract

Thornburgh, Wade, Don Rodgers and an unidentified woman watch a newsreel of the funeral of strikers at Honea Path, S.C. and discuss these deaths and the textile workers' strike of 1934. Winn, Don Rodgers and Angie Rodgers discuss letters to Franklin Delano Roosevelt from cotton mill workers.

Dates: 29 December 1991