Part 4 (Audio 1524A): Additions, 1940s-1970s
Physical Description: 119 disc recordings and 54 tape recordings (53 open reels, and 1 cassette) 
Scope and Content Note: Recordings of convention debates, speeches, and radio broadcasts and programs, 1940s-1970s.
Note: Audio 1524A/88-96 have also been assigned Disc 55A/1-9 and are listed in Part I of the finding aid along with Audio 1524A/114 (duplicate of 1524A/96). The rest of the disc recordings do not have disc numbers assigned.

• 1524A/1-92 are 16-inch discs [1524A/88-92 are Disc 55A/4-9 in Part 1 finding aid]
• 1524A/93-115 are 10-inch discs [1524A/93-96 are Disc 55A/1-3 in Part 1 finding aid]
• 1524A/208-220 are other discs
• 1524A/154-206 are open reel
• 1524A/207 (was 1032A/10), Missing original, but is Master 6442
• 1524A/116-153 do not exist (they belonged to duplicates that were discarded)

Audio recordings [Audio 1524A/1-87, 1524A/97-113, 1524A/115, 1524A/154-220]

Allston Calhoun

American Federation of Labor (AFL) speaker against the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA)

American Security and European Recovery
Note: A discussion of the question of the Russian threat to American Security by Three Trustees of the Committee for Economic Development, featuring Dr. James B. Conant, President of Harvard University; Marion B. Folsom, Chairman of Committee of Economic Development (CED) and Treasurer of Eastman Kodak; Meyer Kestnbaum, Chairman of CED Research and Policy Committee and President of Hart, Schaffner and Marx; with introduction by Ben Grauer.

Anderson Company (WAIM) Citizens' Committee Anti-Union Show, Textile Worker's letter, undated

Citizen's Committee, Anderson Company / Anti-Union Show, undated

“Ballads and Ballots.” Massachusetts Citizens League for Political Education, and the Political Action Committee; Massachusetts State Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 1948 October 14-18

Program 1: Pat Sands and his Vigilantes (orchestra), Mary Ashworth, Don Russell, Ben Malone, Four Chicks and Chuck, Guy Garina
Note: Describes the evils of the anti-labor referenda.

Program 2: Pat Sands and His Vigilantes, Mary Ashworth, Don Russell, Ben Malone, Four Chicks and Chuck, Frank Fontaine

Program 3

Program 4: Cici Blake, Streator Stewart, The Moonmaids, Vaughn Monroe and his orchestra, Ziggy Talent; Program 5

Program 6

Program 7: Jimmy James, Frank Fontaine does impersonations, Ruby Newman and his orchestra

Program 8: Ruby Newman and his orchestra, Dave Ballentine, Bud Collyer; Program 9: Ruby Newman and his orchestra, Jimmy James

Program 10: Larry Green and his orchestra

Program 11: Larry Green and his orchestra

Program 12: Larry Green and his orchestra, Freddie Ross, Paul Sanda

Bill Strength Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) Program

Part 1 - “History of CIO”; Part 2 - “People of America”
Note: With transcript.

Part 3 - “CIO and the Local Community”; Part 4 - “The Farmer and Worker Together,” 1949 December 14

Part 5 - “Religion and Labor United”; Part 6 - “Health Before Wealth”

Part 7 - “Our Daily Bread”; Part 8 - “Too Old To Work and Too Young To Die”

Part 9 - “The Contract and the Worker,” 1949 December 14

Part 10 - “CIO and Education”

Part 11 - “CIO and Americanism”; Part 12 - “The People Speak”

Part 13 - “Texas Bill Strength All Request Program”

Boyd Payton, 1952

Bias History, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) broadcast on WVDA, 1952 June 29

Convention report, 1952 May 11
Note: Note (torn) reads: “Biased report on ba…convention. Somewhat Anti-AFL history of textile unions.”

On WNCT

Broadcast, 1949 May 14
Note: Regarding fair wages.

Charles Sabol, WAZL, 1952 June 6

Christmas, 1942
Note: Disc is broken.

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 1946-1949

#1 and #3, Wednesday night, undated

#2 and #4, Wednesday night, undated

“CIO Wage Case,” undated

Congress of Industrial Organizations' Political Action Committee (CIO-PAC)

“Freedom to be a Man” program, undated

“Money in Your Pocket,” starring Gregory Peck, undated

“The Perfect Crime,” undated

undated

undated

Conventions, 1948-1949

Parts 1 and 3, undated

Parts 2 and 4, undated

Parts 5 and 7, undated

Parts 6 and 8, undated

Station breaks - “A Paid Transcription,” undated

Vets #2, 1946 November 9

Conventions, 1943, 1962, 1970, 1976

Miami Beach, Florida, 1962 May

Emil Rieve, President Emeritus; Frank G. Roche, President of FIA State Federated Labor Council AFL-CIO; William Pollock, General President of TWUA AFL-CIO

William Pollock (continued); General Secretary John Chupka; Resolution Committee, K. Harold Daoust

Lewis Wright, General Secretary Amalgamated Weavers Association, Manchester, England; John Adelman; Bill O'Conner; Red Lesk; Vice President Harold Daoust

Resolutions and committee readings

Resolution to outlaw Miami; James L. McDevitt, National Director of AFL-CIO committee on Political Education; Vice President William DuChessi, Cope Activity

Cope Department, resolutions, Constitutional Committee

Constitutional Committee (continued), Claude Pepper speech, Election Rules Committee

Election Committee, Education Committee, officers' report, nominations

Nominations, resolution on organizing, Arthur J. Goldberg speech, John Chupka talk

John Chupka (continued), Locals committee reports, voting for Canada convention 1964, resolutions

Resolutions, announcements

Joseph A. Beirne address; Election Committee report; Law Resolution Committee; Finance Committee; Roman C. Pucinsky, United States Representative 111 address

Roman Pucinsky (continued); Appeals and Grievances Committee; Resolutions Committee, Foreign Committees appreciation of Mexico and Germany; Committee to Merge recommendation; International Affairs Committee; Resolutions Committee; closing of convention

1970 June

1976

Opening session

Opening session, TWUA history

Opening session

Session #2

Session #2 and #3

Session #3

Cormier program, undated

Cormier program introduction song, undated

Dave George

“Debnam Views the News,” WNCT, Greenville, North Carolina, 1959 April 10

Emil Rieve, 1940, 1951

“CIO Unions Reply to John L. Lewis,” WMCA, 1940 October 29
Note: Regarding the position of Lewis in the national election campaign of 1940.

Interview by Joe Michaels, 1951 February 28

Memorial service, 1975 April 24
Note: Presiding: Lawrence Rogin; Recollections: Sol Stetin, Arthur J. Goldberg, Hubert H. Humphrey, Msgr. George G. Higgins; Music and songs by Joe Glazer.

“From Where We Came,” Melvyn Douglas tells the Textile Workers' story, 1949

George Baldanzi

1949 March 23

“65 cent Minimum Wage”

Asheville, North Carolina, 1949 December 11

Easter message, 1944

Easter Sunday program speech, 1942 April 5

Opening, 1948 September 9

Speaks about the United Textile Workers-American Federation of Labor (UTW-AFL) from a radio address to workers of the American Enka Corporation, Asheville, North Carolina

Speech, 1952 September 18

“Good Men and True,” by United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers Union, undated

Governor Bowles for Textile Workers Show, ABC, undated
Physical Description: 45 seconds 

“Guaranteed Wages the Year 'Round,” 1946

“Guarding Our Funds,” a William Gottlieb slide film production, undated

“How to Bury Taft-Hartley” film, undated

Jack Maloney, undated

Songs - “JJM for Congress,” “Come Along Will Ya,” “Shake Hands with Jack Maloney”

Spots

Joe Glazer, undated

Hill Billy and Union Songs; With Gene Crutchfield and his Twilight Trailers

On why the TWA has an Education Department

PAC Bucks

“A Promise Ain't A Promise Anymore” and “You Gotta Go Down”

“The Mill Was Made of Marble” and “The Giveaway Boys”

Songs

undated

John Chupka, Memorial service, 1976

John Edelman

1949 March 12

1949 May 19

Washington Report, Anti-Taft-Hartley program, 1949 June 6; “From Where We Came”

Labor Day program, 1942 September 6

“Labor's Challenge,” produced by the American Federation of Teachers of the American Federation of Labor and The Jewish Labor Committee, undated

Larry Gonder speech

1953 May 8

Inside story of Baldanzi and the United Textile Workers - American Federation of Labor (UTW-AFL) as told by a former UTW official, undated

Local 1790 (Brooklyn, New York) interview concerning their activities
Note: There appears to be some serious problems within the union.

Local 11, local union program, 1949 October 10

“The Man in the Cage,” 1946 February 2

Meetings, 1948, 1975

Part 1 and 3, 1948 September 22

1975 January 21

1975 April 9

1975 January 24

Memorial Day program, 1975 May 29

“Men on the Job,” San Francisco Labor Council, undated

News conference, Carolina Hotel

Non-partisan, undated

On Trial, 1950 October 16

Payton-Henderson broadcasts

Phillip Murray, undated

Eulogies

Memorial program

Preachers-McGill election, WBSC Bennettsville. “Two preachers appeal for voters to vote in NLRB election and pray for guide,” undated

Part 1

Part 2

“Raise Wages - Not Prices”
Note: Based on Robert Nathan's “A National Wage Policy For 1947” and CIO Wage Research Committee's “Why Wages Must Be Raised.” Slideshow audio.

Reverend R.A. MacGowan address at TWUA convention, 1948
Note: Labeled “disc warped.”

“Saga of 666,” United Automobile Workers - Congress of Industrial Organizations (UAW-CIO), 1944

Scherbak advocating air conditioning for textile mills, 1948 April 25

Sol Stetin remarks at a preview of the film Norma Rae

Svenson's Seniority, 1944-1946

General Motors grievance procedure

Chrysler grievance procedure, UAW-CIO, 1946

Ford grievance procedure, UAW-CIO, 1944

Textile Workers Union (TWU)

#1 and #2

#3 and #4

Unlabeled 1

Unlabeled 2

Unlabeled 3

Unlabeled 4

Unlabeled 5

“Up and Atom!” / narrated by Robert Tree West, undated
Note: Third in a series of sound slide films on atomic energy.

“Vote No on Labor Referenda,” Massachusetts Citizens League for Political Education, and the Political Action Committee, Massachusetts State Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), undated

One minute announcements and station break announcements

Spots
Note: Spots quoting various individuals by Bill Mezger and Tom Russell.

“What's Happening at Morristown, Tennessee?”
Note: Disc 1524A/9 skips.

“Why We Strike,” undated

William DuChessi and David Gringold

William DuChessi and David Gringold, Labor leaders, 1967 October 20

William Pollock, 1952, 1973

1952 June 22

Testimonial dinner at the Hotel Commodore, 1973 March 3

“X Marks the Spot,” voter registration show, undated

“You're Never Too Old to Learn,” TWUA filmstrip on institutes, undated

Why people work for TWUA-CIO; “Vets have flag to improve union image,” undated

“Your Vote - A Priceless Heritage” / produced by Labor's League for Political Education, slideshow with audio, undated