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Box 86

 Container

Contains 36 Results:

Taussig, Charles W. (National Youth Administration) 1935 Request Item

 File — Box: 86, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sidney Hillman and the ACWA played crucial roles in founding the CIO. Hillman's correspondence with Walter Reuther and George Addes of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Emil Rieve of the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee reflects that effort. The Roosevelt era brought both increased visibility and power to Hillman and the union. In 1933, Hillman was chosen to serve on the National Recovery Administration's Labor Advisory Board. The materials from this NRA period...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Teachers (American Federation of) 1936-38 includes correspondence with Professor Jerome Davis Request Item

 File — Box: 86, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sidney Hillman and the ACWA played crucial roles in founding the CIO. Hillman's correspondence with Walter Reuther and George Addes of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Emil Rieve of the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee reflects that effort. The Roosevelt era brought both increased visibility and power to Hillman and the union. In 1933, Hillman was chosen to serve on the National Recovery Administration's Labor Advisory Board. The materials from this NRA period...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Teamsters (International Brotherhood of) 1934-39 Request Item

 File — Box: 86, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sidney Hillman and the ACWA played crucial roles in founding the CIO. Hillman's correspondence with Walter Reuther and George Addes of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Emil Rieve of the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee reflects that effort. The Roosevelt era brought both increased visibility and power to Hillman and the union. In 1933, Hillman was chosen to serve on the National Recovery Administration's Labor Advisory Board. The materials from this NRA period...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Teigan, Harry (Congressman, Minnesota) 1938 Request Item

 File — Box: 86, Folder: 5
Abstract

Governor Elmer A. Benson's radio address relating to "Mr. Landon's sweeping attack on the national administration and the New Deal."

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Textile Labor Relations Board, 1934 Request Item

 File — Box: 86, Folder: 7
Abstract

Discussion of selection of Board personnel and justification for the hiring of certain individuals.

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Textiles, Inc. (National Federation of) 1936 Request Item

 File — Box: 86, Folder: 8
Abstract

The National Textile Act (Ellenbogen Bill); national unemployment problem.

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Textile Workers of America (United) 1935-37 Request Item

 File — Box: 86, Folder: 9
Abstract Paul C. Auchenback's (President, Local No. 2124, Jersey Cloth Workers Association) opposition to an amendment to the Underwear and Allied Products Code; Paterson District Silk Workers' walkout "for stabilization of prices"; ACWA's support for Woolen and Worsted Workers' drive to improve working conditions and to raise their standard of living; Celia Shipe's (Recording Secretary, Local No. 1756) request that Berkeley Woolen Mills, Winchester, Virginia and Martinsburg, Virginia be placed on...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Textile Workers Organizing Committee, 1936-40 Request Item

 File — Box: 86, Folder: 10-15
Abstract Paul Ramussen's (General Organizer, Workers Alliance of America) description of 600 textile workers' spontaneous sit down strike at Louisville Textiles Incorporated; James J. Rafferty's (silk worker, Paterson, N.J.) discussion of a one shift, eight hour, five day work week; William W. Pollard`s (President, South Carolina Federation of Textile Workers) article "The Burning Arrow"; Weekly Letter for Regional Directors; agreement with Alexander Smith Company, forwarded by A. Chatman; financial...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)