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Subseries: File 4A: TWOC Historical Records,
1934-19391 box This is a small group of records relating to the early history of the Textile
Workers Organizing Committee, found in the office of Solomon Barkin shortly after
his retirement as Director of Research in 1963. These papers include accounts of the
great textile strike of 1934 and discuss both general and specific causes of the
strike. There is an evaluation of the effects of the National Industrial Recovery
Act on the textile industry, and an account of a mass funeral of six union pickets
killed by gunfire at Chiquola Mill in Honea Path, South Carolina. This file includes lists of workers and sympathizers killed in strike violence in
1934; mimeographed news releases and strike reports; tabulated statistics on
organizing activities; discussions about volunteer organizers; and organizing
reports. Also there is a copy of an uncompleted contract between the Committee for
Industrial Organization and the United Textile Workers of America, specifying the
conditions under which the Textile Workers Organizing Committee would be
activated.
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